Overview
Everyone has been talking about the mobile web in recent years, and more of us are browsing the web on smartphones and similar devices than ever before. But most of what we are viewing has not yet been updated for mobile presentation. How can designers bring more of the web up to speed with the capabilities of today's mobile devices? In Mobilizing Web Sites: Develop and Design, author and designer Kristofer Layon addresses that elephant in the room --the many existing web sites that we manage on a day-to-day basis-- and walks through techniques that web designers can use to make these legacy web sites better-suited for mobile viewing. By focusing on content strategy and the mobile UI experience, web designers can use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to design mobile presentations of legacy, standards-based web sites. The techniques of gradual mobile improvement are all that a designer needs to help the existing web be more mobile.
Full Product Details
Author: Kristofer Layon
Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
Imprint: Peachpit Press Publications
Dimensions:
Width: 23.00cm
, Height: 1.00cm
, Length: 18.70cm
Weight: 0.382kg
ISBN: 9780321793812
ISBN 10: 0321793811
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 30 December 2011
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Awaiting stock
Reviews
"""This book reads like a perfectly structured day-long workshop. I like the practicality and humanity in it. Kris isn't a purist or an evangelist. He looks at the continuum of mobile presentation issues, ask you where you are on the continuum, and addresses your there. So don't be daunted by mobile, or wait to design for mobile until you can achieve perfection. Mobile is a journey. Use this book to plot your course."" - Jeffrey Zeldman, author, Designing With Web Standards ""Baby steps. Kris's book is filled with them--little but powerful things you can do today to adapt your current site to the changing web and the growing importance of mobile devices. Like real baby steps, they'll open your eyes to new opportunities and ways of seeing the web."" - Luke Wroblewski, author, Mobile First"
This book reads like a perfectly structured day-long workshop. I like the practicality and humanity in it. Kris isn't a purist or an evangelist. He looks at the continuum of mobile presentation issues, asks you where you are on the continuum, and addresses you there. So don't be daunted by mobile, or wait to design for mobile until you can achieve perfection. Mobile is a journey. Use this book to plot your course. - Jeffrey Zeldman, author, Designing With Web Standards
Author Information
Kristofer Layon is a designer, design educator, and product manager who lives in Minneapolis, MN. He currently focuses on mobile design for the web, and user experience and product design for iOS and Android applications. Kris has been a graphic designer since 1993 and a web designer since 1996. Since then he has designed web sites for engineers, urban planners, city governments, artists, musicians, retailers, the National Park Service, and over thirty higher education clients. In addition to designing web sites, Kris has taught graphic design and typography in the University of Minnesota’s College of Design, where he was also an academic advisor for two years. Kris was also the founding director of MinneWebCon, Minnesota’s Web Conference, from 2008-2011. Kris has a Master of Fine Arts degree in interactive design and a bachelor of arts degree in German and pre-architecture. He is a member of AIGA – the Professional Association for Design, the HighEdWeb Association, Design Research Society, and Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association. His work has won design awards from the AIGA and the Society of Marketing Professional Services (SMPS), and his early adoption of web video was featured on Apple’s web site in 1999.
