Mobile Devices

Well here we are at the mobile devices. How are we going to deal with them? Crazy that’s how. I just can’t imagine accessing the Internet from a cell phone. The screen is so very small that I can’t understand how anyone will be able to read anything on them. I am still trying to get sites to just work on the Internet Browsers and now I have to think about how my sites are going to be viewed on mobile devices. How and what will have to be done to sites so that a person can view them on a mobile device.

Well the technology is starting and will continue to grow. Adobe has a site where you can post comments and questions in place and it has been a very busy site. It is called Mobile and Devices Cookbook http://www.w3.org/2006/07/Mobile_Web_Design.pdf . Their new Master Collection includes technology to design for the mobile devices. Another interesting item I found is from W3 http://www.w3.org/2006/07/Mobile_Web_Design.pdf .

How are mobile devices going to affect the designing profession? It is going to change the way that we design web sites. There is a CSS style sheet,
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=HandheldStylesheets , for handheld devices. The designers are working on a style sheet for Zen Garden, http://www.gotomobile.com/archives/handheld-style-sheets-and-getting-to-zen , so that it will be accessible for mobile devices.

This is another fast pace part of web site design. I am interested in designing sites that will work on mobile devices, but I won’t be using them until the screens get a lot bigger.