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How to create a mobile site?

I want to create a simple web form where somenone can access from my mobile phone. Is this normal for regular HTML and CSS? What type of doctype should I use? I want it to be available from all mobile phones.

Thanks in advance.

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It should be a fluid layout, XHTML 1.0 Transitional is fine. Some phones only understand WAP, and some only HTML. You must use HTML, WAP is not used very much, and even the iPhone does not support it. Make the files as small as possible (reduce them) and use small images. Use simple navigation and look at other mobile sites. The best navigation should be a list (ul). Here are some examples:

Also make a special version for smartphones / phones with large screens (e.g. Blackberry storm or iPhone). They have more memmory and can process more images, etc. They often come with cheap internet or a website with a static price (for example, $ 10 / month for endless internet (this month)).

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It is very difficult to create a website that will work on all mobile phones. For example, the small Midwest mobile phone carrier that I know wrote a custom browser that they need to be the default browser on all the phones they sell. The browser is closed and not available for testing. It supports a fancy subset of html, plus extra markup not in html.

However, there is hope. Creating a site accessible for viewing from most 99.9% of mobile devices is quite simple.

WML is a markup language designed for mobile browsers. Almost every mobile browser supports it. WML is not a very cutting edge, and the industry is moving towards XHTML.

There is an XHTML standard for mobile development. I can say a lot about XHTMP-MP , but I think it works.

What you might want is WURFL . You can write a site in WURFL. Then, when someone accesses your page, the WURLF page will be compiled into the markup language that best matches their phone. To quote wikipedia:

WURFL solves this by allowing the development of content pages using an abstraction of page elements (buttons, links, and text fields for example). At run time, this translates to the appropriate, specific markup type for each device. In addition, the developer can specify other runtime solutions based on device capabilities and capabilities (which are all in WURFL).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurfl

Oreilly has a pretty but dated guide here:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2004/02/06/mobile_browsing.html

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If you want to have the basic idea of ​​creating a mobile website, then the link below will be very useful ... I helped me ... Link http://www.w3schools.com/dotnetmobile/default.asp

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