ZFDesign.org » General http://zfdesign.org Building better web sites Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:23:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Introduction to W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices 2010 http://zfdesign.org/31-03-2010/introduction-to-w3cs-mobile-web-best-practices-2010/ http://zfdesign.org/31-03-2010/introduction-to-w3cs-mobile-web-best-practices-2010/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:23:47 +0000 ZFDesign http://zfdesign.org/?p=133 W3C have launches a new online course – “W3C Mobile Web Best Practices”, promising to:

+ learn about the specific promises and challenges of the mobile platform;
+ learn how to apply W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices to design mobile-friendly Web content;
+ gain practical experience of turning desktop content into mobile content;
+ learn client side and server side techniques for adapting your content to different classes of device

It has included a new module on Server-side techniques since I have completed last year.

Details

Start date: Monday 10th May 2010

End date: Friday 2nd July 2010 (8 weeks)

Approx. weekly commitment: 2-3 hours

Cost: € 195 (incl. VAT)

Early Bird: € 145 until Friday 23rd April

so hurry up if you would like to profit from the discounted price.

Complete information on W3C Web site: http://www.w3.org/2010/03/MobiWeb107/

I would recommend to everyone willing to provide accessible content to an ever growing and already large number of Mobile Web users. Cannot remember the exact source of information claiming to have more mobile devices per head of population than TV sets, if that is not enough prove will be difficult to convince you not to sign…

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http://www.iecss.com/

Towards the bottom of the page you will find a link to other Browsers UA Style Sheets.

I find this a usefull reference.

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]]> http://zfdesign.org/28-02-2010/greetings/feed/ 0 W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices http://zfdesign.org/12-09-2009/w3cs-mobile-web-best-practices/ http://zfdesign.org/12-09-2009/w3cs-mobile-web-best-practices/#comments Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:20:10 +0000 ZFDesign http://zfdesign.org/?p=100 Hello,

I have found a link trough an email subscription for W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices course. (http://www.3gwebtrain.com/moodle/) for those interested.

Me as a heavy mobile internet user I can not imagine my life without T-Mobile Web and Walk unlimited Mobile internet and working in the industry – building websites, I felt that this is a must to sign up for the cource. I believe that Mobile devices are becoming much more suitable to meet the daily Internet access needs and will be becoming increasingly popular. Not only the devices are increasing in quality of provided content but the Web should be prepared to handle accurately all requests from so many more mobile devices with OS and browser combination. How people like me and you can influence that is what I am hoping to find out in this course.

Here are the images from my first assignment, this involved browsing three internet sites trough a mobile device answering three questions:

* What worked well?
* What did you find difficult?
* How could the experience be improved

*Click on the images below to see full size

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All though we would like to give the  freedom of speech to each one of you – the site users, we also will not tolerate any offensive language or anything considered damaging to the community.

Can I become a member?

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