Chapter 5. The Mobile Toolbox
WHAT'S IN THIS CHAPTER?
Considering how best to work with your existing web content to take it mobile and the advantages of building services for mobile first
Looking at server techniques and development tools you might use in your mobile web projects
We have looked at the past, the present, and the likely future of the mobile industry, and also at some of the mobile web browsers that your users now have with them in their hands. It's time to start thinking about how we can start to make the most of these exciting developments and actually gear ourselves up to start putting mobile web content out there ourselves. That's what this book is about!
In the first part of this chapter, you will look at some of the initial considerations you might think about before actually sitting down to write code. In other words, you need to plan the best way to bring that content to life and how to build your mobile user interface onto, or alongside, your existing web content.
Hopefully, by this point, you are extremely excited about the mobile opportunity. But if you already run a regular website, the chances are good that you want to bring that existing material to your mobile users, rather than starting over from scratch. We will look at how that can be done. However, if you are planning an entirely new website project, you have the opportunity to build the mobile aspects of that site into your platform right from the start — and this is an exciting philosophy. In the second ...
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