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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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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

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

Creating a web app using a responsive design


This approach is most likely to work when the web app has the same navigation as the main site, as it means we can style our navigation differently and hide content using CSS or PHP as needed.

For the Carborelli’s site, however, the navigation in the app is very different from the main site. We also want visitors to be able to see the standard site if they want to, and by changing our design to make the site appear like an app, that will be difficult.

So it’s pretty clear this won’t be our preferred approach for Carborelli’s, but we want to see how it’s done, so let’s try it out anyway.

The following are the changes we’ll need to make:

  • Redesigning the home page so that it is in line with the mockup for our app

  • Adding new pages for use in the app

  • Adding a separate menu to the inner pages which takes the user to the home page navigation

We’re not going to do all of this now—what we will do is set up the home page.

Making a backup before we start

Before we...

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