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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

Time for action—adjusting the header layout for phones in portrait mode


Let's fix those problems. Perform the following steps for doing so:

  1. 1. We already have a media query for phones in portrait mode as follows:

    /*smartphones in portrait mode*/
    @media screen and (max-width: 320px) {
    }
    

    Let's start by making the address a bit bigger:

    #header-right address h2 {
    font-size: 18px;
    }
    
  2. 2. We will then move on to adding some extra margins around the icons to reduce the risk of tapping the wrong one as follows:

    #header-right #socialmedia img {
    height: 30px;
    margin: 10px 3%;
    }
    
  3. 3. And next, we will make the call to action button larger by simply making the text bigger, as well as tweaking the margins to reduce the risk of clicking in the wrong place as follows:

    #header-right .CTA {
    font-size: 16px;
    margin: 10px 3% 10px 0;
    }
    
  4. 4. We'll then move on to the navigation, which you'll remember is simply too small for reading or tapping on. Let's add some code to make the text bigger as follows:

    /*increase size of...
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