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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

What might we use a web app for?


A web app, above all, gives the user a chance to do something, rather than just passively consuming content.

Some tasks we might want to build into a web app could include the following:

  • Mobile commerce: An online shop customized to make it as user-friendly as possible on mobile devices

  • Online bookings: Maybe for a hotel or conference. This is something a lot of desktop sites incorporate, but by building it into our web app we could drastically increase the number of bookings from mobile users.

  • Event or vacation planning: Once the user is at an event or on vacation, our web app could help him/her identify what's happening and add events to his/her diary or book activities.

  • Mapping: By accessing the device’s GPS coordinates or IP address, we can give users information about business or events close to them.

  • Social media: We can tap into social media platforms, for example Facebook, or use BuddyPress to build our own social or community apps.

  • Adding content to a website...

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