Part II
Creating a Mobile Site
In this part . . .
This part covers the basics of starting a mobile website. You start by identifying and classifying the devices for which you'll be designing web content — how to create your class, or profile, how to create definitions and how to determine which devices get relegated to what classes.
After you have your mobile class society set up, you'll need a “detect and adapt” system that determines which device your visitors are using and then sends them to the appropriate version of the site for that device. Once that's done, you can start designing your web pages.
The method I prefer is to design the first, or home, page first, so we'll go with that. This allows you to iron out the site's basic look and feel — the overall “design.” Once you have that, then you can start creating the various template pages for the site.
