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This Code4Lib Journal article might be helpful: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/2055 Issue 8, 2009-11-23 <http://journal.code4lib.org/issues/issue8> library/mobile: Tips on Designing and Developing Mobile Web Sites Mobile applications can support learning by making library resources more ubiquitous, by bringing new users to the library through increased accessibility to the resources libraries offer, and by creating a new way to enhance connections between patrons and libraries. This increased use of mobile phones provides an untapped resource for delivering library resources to patrons. The mobile Web is the next step for libraries in providing universal access to resources and information. This article will share Oregon State University (OSU) Libraries’ experience creating a mobile Web presence and will provide key design and development strategies for building mobile Web sites. by Kim Griggs, Laurie M. Bridges, Hannah Gascho Rempel Ken Irwin wrote: > Hi all, > > Forking off from the mobile-detection thread: > > Does anyone have any favorite books, articles, websites, etc. for the real "how to" business of building mobile-friendly websites. I have been astonished at the apparent dearth of such books, and was delighted earlier this year to discover Jonathan Stark's Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript from O'Reilly (2010); he has an Android-oriented version of the book coming out soon too. Although the book contains a lot about designing web pages, the app-building orientation of the book means that it gives short shrift to cross-platform compatibility. What I really want to find is a good guide to "building simple websites that will work on any smartphone, yea, verily, even BlackBerry." (I don't know about anyone else, but I have found BB to not support a lot of things that work well on Droids and iThings.) > > For a shorter introduction, I belatedly discovered this article: > Mobile Websites With Minimum Effort. > Authors: Wisniewski, Jeff > Source: Online; Jan/Feb2010, Vol. 34 Issue 1, p54-57, 4p > > The number-one thing that I learned from Stark's book is something that I had struggled for the longest time with: why does my iThing make all web pages look tiny? The answer: iThings assume that all web pages are 980px wide, and you've got to disabuse them of that notion by the simple expedient of defining a viewport in the page header: > <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width"> > (there are several variations of this, and knowing the key word helps to find the rest.) > > Does anyone else have a favorite book or three for this kind of work? > > Ken > >