Website Design for Mobile Devices
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Friday, July 30, 2010

Website Design for Mobile Devices

How to design a website for mobile devices (smart phones). Next web world with smart phones so start working on mobile templates. In this post I want to explain very basic HTML design tip with adding a meta tag. I had implemented this at touch.9lessons.info, try to access this link with any smart phone Eg: Iphone and Android devices.

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Related article : Introducing 9lessons iphone Web Application

Normal site
Contains HTML code. CSS width style fixed with pixels. width : 900px
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Normal Website</title>
<style>
#container
{
width:900px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container"></div>
</body>
</html>

Mobie site
Contains HTML code. CSS width style with percentage. width : 100% . Take a look at META tag viewport.
<html>
<head>
<title>Mobile Website</title>
<meta content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;" name="viewport" />
<style>
#container
{
width:100%;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container"></div>
</body>
</html>

META tag viewport for Iphone
Width fixed 320
<meta content = "width = 320,initial-scale = 2.3, user-scalable = no" name = "viewport" />

META tag viewport for all smart phone devices (recommended)
Auto width adjustment.
<meta content = "width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;" name = "viewport" />


Apple developer meta tags information

Redirect iPhone, Blackberry, & Palm Requests With .htaccess
Beginning iPhone 3 Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK
web notification

30 comments:

  1. Can you please tell me any online simulator for iPhone?
    BTW useful post.

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  2. Great post Srinivas. Nice and simple, I need to create a mobile version of my site one day. :-)

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  3. nice post .. anyway any online emulator for iPhone viewer or else?

    regards

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  4. Well explained design post for mobile device..

    Thanks

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  5. Hi . Now i gonna make my site available for mobile devices , and i have AJAX jQuery chat . But javascript don`t work with mobile browsers and chat don`t work for it , so if u have some code to make it work please post it some where .
    Sorry for my bad english .

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  6. Thanks for u r information


    its very useful

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  7. Great useful information. i have a small doubt can you please clarify
    How to Use CSS3 Media Queries to Create a Mobile Version of Your Website?

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  8. Thanks for u r information


    its very useful

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  9. Any idea for viewing our own language site or creating a site with our language...and one more question, if im already having a site, ex: www.soandso.com i need - wap.soandso.com
    but im not able to access the wap site i tried your tutorial .......Reply Please

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  10. Thanks for u r information


    its very useful

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  11. Thanks for u r information

    its very ueful

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  12. Thanks for u r information

    its very ueful

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  13. Thanks for the site its awesome site for the visitors.

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  14. Good advice. We often advise our students to take a step back and understand what they are getting into. This article reinforces that concept with some practical advice.

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  16. I like this article because themes was interesting,helpful but ,give more info about that when you update. Thanks

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  17. Nice and very cool article.But it work in wml supported mobile phone?

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  18. really excellent tutorials..........great yaar

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  19. Keep it up! Good topic was explain related to daily life. In this clear the ideas to solving the problems in our life then I like to add my bookmark also subscribe it..

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  20. Best of luck. Good solutions in this blog. Included more information in future for the successive blog. Good luck

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  21. Is there any different limit of meta tags for mobile website or its same as of desktop browser...?

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  22. it is very cool. I have one question is it the same way that facebook did his downloadable mobile application??????

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  23. Do you know any chat application for mobile websites?

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  24. Nice and excellent tutorial

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  25. Basic HTML design tip with adding a meta tag. Implement this at touch.9lessons.info, try to access this link with any smart phone Eg: Iphone and Android devices.

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  26. great and useful trick, nice sharing

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