Tuesday, October 5, 2004
Pocket-Sized Design: Taking Your Website to the Small Screen
Posted by Janak Parekh in "ARTICLE" @ 07:00 AM
Here's a nicely-written, thorough article explaining to you webmasters how to design your webpages so that they reformat well on small PDA and Smartphone screens.
"Among the many websites that are out there, few are standards-compliant. Among those few, only a handful sport style sheets adjusted to the needs of handheld devices. Of those which do offer styling for handhelds, not all will fit the smallest, lowest-resolution screens without presenting the user with the ultimate handheld horror: namely, horizontal scrolling."
While the article generally refers to Opera, it has a number of general tips that should apply well to other constrained browsing platforms, like PIE. As always, make sure to test it if you can. :)
"Among the many websites that are out there, few are standards-compliant. Among those few, only a handful sport style sheets adjusted to the needs of handheld devices. Of those which do offer styling for handhelds, not all will fit the smallest, lowest-resolution screens without presenting the user with the ultimate handheld horror: namely, horizontal scrolling."
While the article generally refers to Opera, it has a number of general tips that should apply well to other constrained browsing platforms, like PIE. As always, make sure to test it if you can. :)
