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Mobile Web Design, a book by industry expert Cameron Moll, provides a web standards approach for delivering content beyond the desktop. Much has been written about mobile devices. Plenty has been written about developing websites for the so-called “standards era” of the web. However, little has been written about the two colliding. This resource aims to fill that void. If you’re in a position to develop for, manage, or give advice regarding your organizations foray … More >>
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I’ve been waiting for a book like this for years! Its a concise, yet detailed introduction to almost everything you’ll need to get started in mobile web development.
Rating: 5 / 5
This is one of those books that I read from cover to cover without loosing interest anywhere along the way. The book is broken up into 8 chapters that cover: mobile context, mobile delivery methods, development practices, validation, testing, and advanced technologies such as Flash Lite, SVG and Ajax, as well as much more.
As a mobile developer for many years, most of the information was a review for me, but I was happy to learn several new things and refresh my mind on what is important as a mobile developer. I think this book is great for those just starting and those who have anything to do with mobile sites.
My only wish is that EVERY web/mobile developer would read this book and follow the best practices outlined in the book.
Rating: 5 / 5
The important thing to know is that this book focuses on the key concepts and information required to plan mobile strategies, rather than specific code examples for building mobile apps and sites. This book enlightened me, changing my perspective on the role of design, and the needs of the user as it applies mobile content. Any designer, developer or business owner interested in stepping in to the mobile realm should read this book.
Rating: 5 / 5
If you know nothing about the mobile web, this book is good introduction for you.
It is very tiny book, doesn’t go too deep, rather cover the basics and offer links to other resources.
After reading of this book you wouldn’t be able just go and make perfect mobile web design, but you will be ready to make your first experiments and avoid common mistakes.
Rating: 4 / 5
The book is quite short – 102 A5 pages. It doesn’t go into too much technical details. In my point of view it will be a good introduction chapter for a book about mobile web design. May be that the target audience is not developers but non-technical people, that will run away when faced bigger one.
There are a lot of links and web references. On one hand it’s good, as one can go and investigate further, but book assumes that reader goes and really checks the pages. I buy “physical” books to read them while I’m travelling or when I’m somewhere off-line. Scratching the topic and then referring to a blog just keeps me upset because I can not check it right away. So I had to “re-read” the book, extract all the links that were interesting and check them out later.
Rating: 2 / 5