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Mobile Web Design for the iPhone, iPad, and other DevicesIntroducing: The Art of Mobile Design
Mobile Trends: One Screen to Rule them All: How the iPad turns three screens into one.
Design Tutorial: Mobile Web Design Tips.
Mobile Blogging: Mobile WordPress themes convert blogs for the iPhone and other mobile devices.
Code Hints: How HTML5 and CSS 3 are Changing Web Design
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Dreamweaver Tips & Tutorials
Get Started with the New Site SetUp Process in Dreamweaver CS5
10 Quick Reasons to upgrade to Adobe Dreamweaver CS5
Use the Widget Browser to add slideshows, drop-down menus, and other features to Dreamweaver CS5
Use Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 to edit a WordPress blog post or theme
Editing CSS Layouts in Dreamweaver CS5
New CSS Features in Dreamweaver CS5 make it easier to test and design with Cascading Style Sheets
Test Your Web Pages in Adobe BrowserLab and other Web Browser Testing Services
New Language Support in Adobe Dreamweaver CS5: Spanish, Dutch, Russian, Turkish, and more...
Most of the tutorials in the sections below also apply to version CS4
Why use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)?
CSS selectors in Dreamweaver CS4 / CS5: When to use Class, ID, Tag, or Compound selectors
CSS Selectors in Dreamweaver CS3: Class, Tag, and Advanced selectors
Customize a CSS Layout in Dreamweaver
Add Background Images with CSS
Create a Navigation Bar with an Unordered List and CSS
Where to learn advanced CSS tricks
Add new features with Dreamweaver Extensions and Widgets
Add the jQuery PowerSlider to create rotators and sliders in Dreamweaver
Add a Spry Drop-Down Menu in Dreamweaver
Edit a Drop-Down Menu created with Spry in Dreamweaver
Use Swap Image Behavior to Create Multiple Rollovers
Add a Shopping Cart and Traffic Counter 
Compare eCommerce Shopping Carts
(that don't cost much)
Add a shopping cart with Google Checkout - it's so easy
Add a PayPal Buy Button to sell one item, membership, or service
What's the best eCommerce option? Google Checkout vs PayPal vs. Amazon Payments
Traffic counters, email spam protection, newsletter services, favicons, and more
How to add or embed code from Google AdSense, Flickr, YouTube, and more using Dreamweaver
Templates 101: Using templates in blogs and web sites
WordPress, Blogs,& CMS's
Compare: What's the difference between a Web site and a blog?
WordPress 101: How do you create a WordPress blog?
Dreamweaver CS5 enhanced support for editing WordPress blog themes
How to edit a WordPress blog with Dreamweaver
Testing Server: Set up a Web server to run WordPress, Joomla, or any CMS with Dreamweaver
Blogging Programs: Which is best: WordPress, TypePad, or Blogger?
CMS Review: What's the difference between WordPress, Joomla and Drupal and how do Content Management Systems Work?
Test your Web site in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and other web browers
Dreamweaver Quiz: Test your Dreamweaver Savvy (fun to play)
Code Review: Can you find the errors in this XHTML Page?
Planning Tools: Develop a task list for your Web site before you start building
Which Adobe Creative Suite is Right for You? Compare the programs in each creative suite
Use Social Media & SEO for PromotionGoogle+ get's a lot of 'buzz,' and a little easier to join
3 Quick Tips to Attract More Visitors to Your Web Site
Ten Tips to make your Dreamweaver site more Search Engine Friendly
Earn status in Social Networks
Facebook: Should you show your face on a Fan Page, Group, or Profile?
How to send email newsletters (without looking like a spammer)
Email Newsletter Services: Reviews and Comparison Table
Sign up for Janine's Social Media Tips email newsletter
Review: Compare the feature of popular image editing programs
Creating and Optimizing images with Adobe Photoshop Save for Web
- Choose the best format for your image: JPEG, PNG, or GIF
- Change image resolution and resize graphics before optimize
- Optimize JPEGs with Photoshop's Save for Web feature
- Optimize GIF and PNG files with Photoshop's Save for Web feature
How to create and edit images with Adobe Photoshop Elements
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Mobile Web Design Basics
To reach the broadest audience (an estimated 8,000+ devices), there are two main approaches to mobile web design:
1. Create one simplified design with HTML and CSS that displays even on older, feature-limited cellphones.
2. Invest in a complex system of device detection and content adaptation to send just the right version of your site to each cellphone or other device based on screen size and other features. (Note: most web apps also take this approach.)
If you want to reach the broadest audience using mobile devices, you either need to keep your designs simple and limit the interativity and multimedia.
Or you need to create multiple versions of your site, sending the rich media version only to high-end devices, such as the iPhone, iPad, and new Android devices.
All web sites require some connection to access them, but it's now possible to use offline caching to download pages from a web site and view them offline later on an iPhone/iPad and some other devices.
You can even create an icon for your web site so visitors can view your site as easily as they can launch a native app.
The best way to reach the broadest audience with the least effort and resources is to create a relatively simple web site that can be displayed on most of the devices that can access the Web.
For more complex web design and multimedia, consider using device detection and content adaptation.
Creating a simple web site is by far the most inexpensive option.
Anyone with a background in HTML and CSS can learn to create a simple mobile web site (especially if you buy our book Mobile Web Design For Dummies).
You'll also find many resources online for creating mobile sites. For example, you can add specialized themes to WordPress to make your blog mobile friendly at no additional cost.