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WordPress Mobile Web Development: Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   WordPress Mobile Web Development: Beginner's Guide Make your WordPress website mobile-friendly and get to grips with the two hottest trends in web design—Mobile and WordPress with this book and ebook.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849515726
Length 332 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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RACHEL MCCOLLIN RACHEL MCCOLLIN
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WordPress Mobile Web Development Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Acknowledgement
1. www.PacktPub.com
2. Preface
1. Using Plugins to Make Your Site Mobile-friendly 2. Using Responsive Themes FREE CHAPTER 3. Setting up Media Queries 4. Adjusting the Layout 5. Working with Text and Navigation 6. Optimizing Images and Video 7. Sending Different Content to Different Devices 8. Creating a Web App Interface 9. Adding Web App Functionality 10. Testing and Updating your Mobile Site Pop quiz—Answers

Time for action—specifying different fonts for mobile devices


The first step is to identify the breakpoint at which the alternative fonts will take effect, that is, at what screen size do you want to start using them? The obvious answer might be tablets in landscape mode, as these are the largest devices not running a desktop operating system. However, these devices have the same width as the older PCs with small monitors, so any change we make for them would affect these, too.

The solution I'll adopt is to set the breakpoint at this size, but include a fallback font in the stylesheet that is likely to be installed on desktops.

We will create a new media query for screens 1024px wide or less, and add the font-family declaration to it as follows:

/*iPads in landscape mode and smaller desktops*/
@media screen and (max-width: 1024px) {
body {
font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;
}
}

What just happened?

We wrote a new media query for tablets in landscape mode, small desktop...

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