Sunday, October 12, 2008

Mobile Devices

Designing for mobile devices is a very complicated issue. First of all there has not been any standards set for mobile devices. Which the W3 is in the process of creating their will many problems until they do have them set in place.

The next problem you will run into is how do you test your site. They are working on some solutions to this problem such as Mozilla org is trying to develop a mini mozilla which would be a browser for small devices. Opera does have the ability to render its browser for the small handheld devices. You can also download emulators to show how it would look on a handheld device such as for: smart phone, pocket pc and other handheld devices.

Designing for mobile devices you need to know what is the standard size of the screen in order to design for the mobile devices.
  • 128 x 160 pixels
  • 176 x 220 pixels
  • 240 x 320 pixels
  • 320 x 480 pixels

That small of area would be very difficult to design web pages for. In web design it is a fast paced and ever changing area and I am excited to see where it is going from here. Keeping up with the speed of technology is exciting and I am looking forward to see how fast technology is going to change.

1 comment:

Jimmy LeBlanc said...

It's definitely difficult to design a website for a mobile device when there's different screen sizes. So much variety that having a standard is tough.