Over the past five days we have covered quite a few bases in the mobile website area. In case you missed them, you can find the posts here:
- Part 1: Why Go Mobile?
- Part 2: Mobilize Your Site the Easy Way
- Part 3: iPhonitizing Your Site Sans MoFuse
- Part 4: 14 iPhone-Formatted Websites
- Part 5: iPhoneMicrosites.com
I think it’s about time to bring this series to a close, with today’s post “7 Useful Mobile Site Resources.” I have to admit, the biggest reason I wrote this series was because I recently got my hands on an iPod Touch, after far too much waiting. I’ve been thinking about the topic for a long time, well before I got the i’Touch, since before I was seriously considering buying one (since the first generation Touch came out).
Now, where should you go from here? Following are a few resources that you may find useful.
1. Mobile Web Development by Nirav Mehta
Mobile Web Development is focused on non-iPhone mobile sites (I’m not sure if it even mentions the iPhone). It’s fairly current, having been published in 2008, and covers a broad array of topics in it’s 216 pages. It covers WML and WAP, XHTML MP, sending text messages (SMS) via server-side script, PayPal Mobile, Interactive Voice, and a few other things.
I haven’t tried out any of the examples or anything, but I read through the book, and it seems to be good overall. It’s an easy read, and shouldn’t take much time to get through.
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