Mobile Web Development

Mobile Web Development: Building mobile websites, SMS and MMS messaging, mobile payments, and automated voice call systems with XHTML MP, WCSS, and mobile AJAX by Nirav MehtaProduct Details
Publisher: Packt Publishing (February 6, 2008) | 236 pages | PDF | ISBN: 1847193439 | PDF | 4.9 MB

As more users access the Web from their phones and other handhelds, web developers need to learn techniques for targeting these new devices. Sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google target mobiles with their services and products. Companies use mobile services to provide staff access to their applications while away from a computer.

This book is a complete, practical guide to writing mobile websites and applications. You will learn how to create mobile-friendly websites, adapt your content to the capabilities of different devices, save bandwidth with compression, and create server-side logic that integrates with a mobile front end. You will also see other methods for integrating your web application with mobile technology: sending and receiving MMS and SMS messages, accepting mobile payments, and working with voice calls to provide spoken interaction.

The book illustrates every technique with practical examples, showing how to use these development methods in the real world. Along the way we show how an example pizza delivery business can use these methods to open up to the mobile web.
Whether you want to provide customers and users of your public website with new ways to access your services, or build applications so that staff can stay up to date while on the road, this book will show you all you need to build a powerful mobile presence.

Technologies and tools covered in the book

PHP, JavaScript, AJAX, XHTML Mobile Profile (XHTML MP), Wireless CSS, WAP 2.0, Tera WURFL, MyMobileWeb, Mobile Web Toolkit, Image Server, GAIA Image Transcoder, HAWHAW , ready.mobi, Nokia's Mobile Internet Toolkit , SMIL, Voxeo's Prophecy server, VoiceXML (VXML), grXML, Frost library, WALL, WURFL, SMS, MMS, mobile payment gateways, mobile widgets, Mobile AJAX, Android, Google Gears, and Dojo Offline.

What you will learn from this book?

* Build a mobile-friendly front end for your site - learn XHTML Mobile Profile (XHTML MP) and Wireless CSS (WCSS), the CSS subset supported by mobile devices; target the full range of mobile browsers; adapt automatically to the capabilities of the device.

* Write interactive mobile applications - present and process mobile forms with different input types; support keypad navigation; get started with Mobile Ajax and JavaScript.
* Accept payments online via mobile web and SMS using Paypal, SMS short codes, and more.
* Integrate your application with SMS and MMS messages - enable users to send SMS and MMS messages to your site, process them, and send SMS and MMS messages back to your users too; set up your own SMS gateway, or choose an existing gateway provider; include slideshows, movies, and sounds.
* Handle voice calls - respond to voice input, create touchtone services, play pre-recorded voice or use text-to-speech to provide voice-based software.
* Future-proof your application - understand the basics of iPhone development, the Android platform, and the implications of other developments in the mobile space.

Approach

The author adopts a fast-paced, practical approach to developing for the mobile web. The book focuses on solutions, pragmatic tips, and fast results rather than theory.

Each chapter focuses on an aspect of taking a pizza delivery company onto the mobile web. This ensures that the chapters remain practical and realistic, focusing on getting things done. The book also provides discussion and reference material to help you apply the techniques to your own projects.

Who this book is written for?

This book is for web developers who want to provide mobile support for their applications.

The book assumes some knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The reader should also know a server-side language. The examples in the book use PHP, but can be adapted easily to other languages. The book does not use J2ME, focusing instead on using the phone's web browser and other standard features.


About the Author

Nirav Mehta

Nirav Mehta is renowned for his entrepreneurial ventures, his breakthrough ideas, and his contribution to open source. Nirav leads a software development company - Magnet Technologies - from India that specializes in Rich Internet Applications, Web, and Mobile. Nirav believes in simplifying the most complicated ideas and presenting them in lucid language.

Over the last ten years, Nirav has written and spoken on a variety of topics. He has also been instrumental in localization efforts in India and training programmers to be effective developers.

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HTML A Beginner's Guide

Wendy Willard "HTML A Beginner's Guide"
McGraw-Hill Osborne Media | English | 2009-06-08 | ISBN: 0071611436 | 538 pages | PDF | 11,3 MB

Essential HTML Skills--Made Easy!
Create highly functional, impressive websites in no time. Fully updated and revised, HTML: A Beginner's Guide, Fourth Edition explains how to structure a page, place images, format text, create links, add color, work with multimedia, and use forms. You'll also go beyond the basics and learn how to save your own web graphics, use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), create dynamic web content with basic JavaScript, and upload your site to the web. By the end of the book you'll be able to build custom websites using the latest HTML techniques. An all-new chapter also covers creating HTML for e-mail, a hot-button issue for any business seeking to reach its target audience through online communication.
Designed for Easy Learning

• Key Skills & Concepts--Chapter-opening lists of specific skills covered in the chapter
• Ask the Expert--Q&A sections filled with bonus information and helpful tips
• Try This--Hands-on exercises that show you how to apply your skills
• Notes--Extra information related to the topic being covered
• Tips--Helpful reminders or alternate ways of doing things
• Self-Tests--Chapter-ending quizzes to test your knowledge

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Cascading Style Sheets: The Designer's Edge

Molly E. Holzschlag, "Cascading Style Sheets: The Designer's Edge"
Publisher: Sybex; 1 edition | 2003-03-11 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0782141846 | CHM | 21 MB

CSS is finally supported by all modern web browsers, empowering Web designers to do what they've been hungering to do for years: control layout more precisely, use color more effectively, and expand typographic options beyond the frustrating limitations of the past. So where to begin? Where can you get design-focused instruction on CSS while learning the technical details?

Cascading Style Sheets: The Designer's Edge is precisely the resource you've been looking for. Written by renowned web designer Molly Holzschlag, this book begins with an in-depth look at structured markup, both XHTML and CSS. It then explains how to use CSS to achieve specific design goals involving typography, color, layout, and more. Finally, it deconstructs a series of impressive designs, showing you how the authors used CSS to maximize their efficiency and get exactly the right effect.

Key topics you'll learn about include:
* Writing valid XHTML
* Authoring effective CSS rules
* Working with classes and IDs
* Validating your CSS
* Creating great typographical designs with CSS
* Using CSS for backgrounds, borders, and color
* Creating multiple link styles
* Using absolute positioning
* Working with relative positioning
* Positioning with float
* Creating great CSS layouts

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Web Design for Teens

Maneesh Sethi, "Web Design for Teens"
Publisher: Course Technology PTR; 1 edition | 2004-12-01 | 303 Pages | ISBN: 1592006078 | PDF | 10.6 MB

Your Web site is a way to communicate who you are to the world-your style, your interests, your voice. "Web Design for Teens" gives you the skills you need to create your first Web site. You don't need any coding experience to begin. You'll cover everything from how to write the code to how to create a cool design. Begin by learning HTML as you move from the basics to advanced coding topics. Then it's on to design as you conquer the fine points of color and navigation systems. Wrap things up as you learn how to put your Web site online, advertise it, and attract visitors.

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Inside Dynamic Html

Scott Isaacs, Inside Dynamic Html
Microsoft Press | ISBN: 1572316861 | 1997 | CHM | 473 pages | 1.11 MB

For Web developers, one of the most exciting features of Microsoft(r) Internet Explorer 4.0 is Dynamic HTML, a powerful Microsoft extension of standard HTML that brings a new level of interactivity to content developers' Web sites. And INSIDE DYNAMIC HTML is the technical bible on this important new innovation. It's for Web developers, sophisticated content providers, users of JavaScript and other scripting tools, and anyone else who wants the lowdown on this widely embraced approach to a livelier Web. The book assumes proficiency with a scripting language and supplies an abundance of examples.

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Deliver First Class Web Sites: 101 Essential Checklists

Shirley Kaiser, "Deliver First Class Web Sites: 101 Essential Checklists"
SitePoint | ISBN: 0975841904 | 2006 | 352 pages | PDF | 2,6 MB

Deliver First Class Web Sites: 101 Essential Checklistsis the only organized and easy-to-use compilation of guidelines, checklists and tips for building modern, best-practice Websites.

Drawing on dozens of books, studies, and research papers, this book distills not-so-common wisdom into 500 digestible guidelines & checkpoints that can be quickly applied to any Web Development project. Organized by chapter, the guidelines cover everything from color usage & navigation, to accessibility, usability and webpage architecture.

By following all the guidelines, you will develop 100% best-practice Websites, ensuring their projects are built "the right way" from the start. This means the final Website will be:
Cross-browser & Cross-platform compatible
Easy to update & maintain
Usable by even novice Internet Users
Accessible to disabled visitors
Search-engine friendly

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Dynamic Html in Action

William J., Schurman, Eric M., Dynamic Html in Action
Microsoft Press | ISBN: 0735605637 | 1999 | CHM | 497 pages | 6.36 MB

DYNAMIC HTML IN ACTION, SECOND EDITION, is a valuable guide for HTML/Web authors eager to get the most out of the extended interactive and multimedia abilities of Dynamic HTML version 2 (as featured in Internet Explorer 5-and possibly supported by Netscape as well). DYNAMIC HTML IN ACTION, SECOND EDITION, covers everything that makes Internet Explorer 5 the next breakthrough technology for creating dynamic Web content: Dynamic HTML, dynamic content and dynamic styles, the Internet Explorer 5 object model, new Table features, 2D positioning, and data binding. All topics are covered in clear, succinct language with plenty of sample pages on the CD to make learning these new tools as engaging and interesting as the content Web users will eventually create.

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