Professional Mobile Web Development with WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal

Learn to implement sites with the major content management platforms
The popularity of the mobile web is seemingly unstoppable, making the demand and expectations for sleek, smooth, and sophisticated web sites extraordinarily high. Unique to the shelf, this book describes how you can develop mobile content and then install, configure, test, and integrate mobile web sites using the most popular content management systems (CMS) in order to provide an engaging and enjoyable experience to users on the move. Placing a special emphasis on three particular platforms—WordPress, Joomla!, and Drupal—author James Pearce explains how to design and mobilize sites in conjunction with each CMS and walks you through the installation and configuration of the plugins, modules, and themes that will get you started, fast.
Professional Mobile Web Development:
Features a brief history of the mobile web and explains what makes it unique
Provides a technical review of the mobile landscape and familiarizes you with mobile devices, networks, and their challenges
Looks at how the mobile web is evolving and how best to design for it
Reviews choices and decisions that should be made prior to working on CMS mobilization
Describes the processes involved in testing, deploying, and integrating a mobile web site, regardless of platform
Discusses mobile analytics, advertising, and other operational topics
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Spis treści:
INTRODUCTION.
PART I: THE WORLD OF THE MOBILE WEB.
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCING THE MOBILE WEB.
CHAPTER 2: A TECHNICAL OVERVIEW OF THE MOBILE WEB.
CHAPTER 3: KEEPING ABREAST OF DEVELOPMENTS.
CHAPTER 4: MAJOR MOBILE WEB BROWSERS.
CHAPTER 5: THE MOBILE TOOLBOX.
PART II: GENERAL MOBILE TECHNIQUES.
CHAPTER 6: THE ANATOMY OF A MOBILE SITE.
CHAPTER 7: SWITCHING BETWEEN MOBILE AND DESKTOP BROWSERS.
CHAPTER 8: CMS UI PATTERNS FOR MOBILE.
CHAPTER 9: DESIGNING FOR MOBILE DEVICES.
CHAPTER 10: MOBILE TEMPLATES AND LIBRARIES.
PART III: MAJOR CMS PLATFORMS.
CHAPTER 11: BASIC WORDPRESS MOBILIZATION 225
CHAPTER 12: ADVANCED WORDPRESS MOBILIZATION.
CHAPTER 13: BASIC DRUPAL MOBILIZATION.
CHAPTER 14: ADVANCED DRUPAL MOBILIZATION.
CHAPTER 15: BASIC JOOMLA! MOBILIZATION.
CHAPTER 16: ADVANCED JOOMLA! MOBILIZATION.
PART IV: ENHANCING AND LAUNCHING YOUR SITE.
CHAPTER 17: JAVASCRIPT FRAMEWORKS.
CHAPTER 18: TESTING AND DEBUGGING MOBILE SITES.
CHAPTER 19: FINAL TOUCHES.
PART V: REFERENCES.
Appendix A: Further Reading.
Appendix B: Useful Sites.
Glossary.
INDEX.

Nota biograficzna:
James Pearce is a technologist, writer, developer, and entrepreneur who has been working with the mobile web for over a decade. He is Senior Director of Developer Relations at Sencha. Previously he was the CTO at dotMobi and has a background in mobile startups, teleco ms infrastructure, and management consultancy. He speaks and writes extensively on the topic of mobile web development, and is the author of the popular WordPress Mobile Pack plugin.

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Learn to implement sites with the major content management platforms
The popularity of the mobile web is seemingly unstoppable, making the demand and expectations for sleek, smooth, and sophisticated web sites extraordinarily high. Unique to the shelf, this book describes how you can develop mobile content and then install, configure, test, and integrate mobile web sites using the most popular content management systems (CMS) in order to provide an engaging and enjoyable experience to users on the move. Placing a special emphasis on three particular platforms—WordPress, Joomla!, and Drupal—author James Pearce explains how to design and mobilize sites in conjunction with each CMS and walks you through the installation and configuration of the plugins, modules, and themes that will get you started, fast.
Professional Mobile Web Development:
Features a brief history of the mobile web and explains what makes it unique
Provides a technical review of the mobile landscape and familiarizes you with mobile devices, networks, and their challenges
Looks at how the mobile web is evolving and how best to design for it
Reviews choices and decisions that should be made prior to working on CMS mobilization
Describes the processes involved in testing, deploying, and integrating a mobile web site, regardless of platform
Discusses mobile analytics, advertising, and other operational topics
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Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real–world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.