BEEM MY WEBSITE UP TO MY SMARTPHONE
HOW DO I MAKE YOUR WEBSITE MOBILE READY?
Thill Design can design and develop your site to be view-able on mobile devices - and desktops and tablets too. JavaScript's new offshoot, jQuery, makes it easier to create content on multiple platforms. This new fluid or liquid layout automatically re-sizes pages as devices change in size from desktop to tablets to mobile devices.
Go to http://www.thilldesign.com/onePage/index.php and you can see jQuery at work. This is a version of my HTML site converted to jQuery. To see how it fits different screen sizes just grab the lower right corner of the browser page and make the page smaller, It will automatically resize text and graphics to fit an infinite number of screen sizes including mobile.
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| Smart Phone 320 x 480 px |
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| Desktop 1024 x 768 px |
The distinction between Mobile Web
applications and native applications is anticipated to become
increasingly blurred, as mobile browsers gain direct access to the
hardware of mobile devices (including accelerometers and GPS chips), and
the speed and abilities of browser-based applications improve.
But everything does come with another kind of price and the Mobile Web trade-off is less content but more fulfilling. So you can’t view three columns of text interspersed with huge graphics and that’s ok. You’re in a hurry anyway. Mobile Web on your cell phone lets you do lots of stuff, like get a website’s location via Google Maps. Mobile Web enables you to make purchases with your cell phone. Starbucks has an Android app that will display a barcode you can use to buy that next latte. Smartphones can scan a Tag Reader like the one here and have a VCard downloaded to your contact list (try this one, it actually works if you don’t mind getting a little shameless advertising).
OUR WORLD IS GETTING SMALLER
And our lust for miniature devices that aspire to the technical sophistication of a Star Trek Communicator accelerates. We want our cumbersome desktop internet connection to become a Mobile Web that fits neatly on our cell phones and tablets, satisfying our need for more, better, faster, and smaller.
Look no further, Bunky! Your smart phone can already sport a GPS locator, video teleconferencing hardware and software, an HD video camera, a regular camera, a stereo system, a vast library of books, films, games and music. It's just mind boggling to think you can get all this on one little smart phone let alone what the cost would be to buy individually. Twenty years ago I paid $20,000 for one Mac FX workstation. Today, you can buy an iPhone for $80.00. I try not to think about that too much.
And our lust for miniature devices that aspire to the technical sophistication of a Star Trek Communicator accelerates. We want our cumbersome desktop internet connection to become a Mobile Web that fits neatly on our cell phones and tablets, satisfying our need for more, better, faster, and smaller.
Look no further, Bunky! Your smart phone can already sport a GPS locator, video teleconferencing hardware and software, an HD video camera, a regular camera, a stereo system, a vast library of books, films, games and music. It's just mind boggling to think you can get all this on one little smart phone let alone what the cost would be to buy individually. Twenty years ago I paid $20,000 for one Mac FX workstation. Today, you can buy an iPhone for $80.00. I try not to think about that too much.
But everything does come with another kind of price and the Mobile Web trade-off is less content but more fulfilling. So you can’t view three columns of text interspersed with huge graphics and that’s ok. You’re in a hurry anyway. Mobile Web on your cell phone lets you do lots of stuff, like get a website’s location via Google Maps. Mobile Web enables you to make purchases with your cell phone. Starbucks has an Android app that will display a barcode you can use to buy that next latte. Smartphones can scan a Tag Reader like the one here and have a VCard downloaded to your contact list (try this one, it actually works if you don’t mind getting a little shameless advertising).
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