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Make your WordPress website mobile-friendly and get to grips with the two hottest trends in web designMobile and WordPress
- Learn how to build mobile and responsive websites using WordPress
- Get to grips with the best mobile plugins and understand how they interact with your site
- Learn how to make your own WordPress theme or site responsive, including layout, images, navigation and more
In Detail
The chances are that more of your WordPress website visitors are using mobiles, or more clients are demanding responsive or mobile sites. If you can use WordPress to build mobile-friendly sites you can win more business from clients and more traffic for your site.
WordPress Mobile Web Development Beginners Guide will benefit you whether youve dabbled in WordPress or worked with it for years. It will help you identify which approach to mobile is most appropriate for your site (responsive, mobile, or web app) and learn how to make each one work, demonstrating a variety of techniques from the simple to the more complex, working through clear practical examples and applying these to your own website.
Start by quickly making a WordPress site mobile-friendly, using off the shelf plugins and responsive themes, choosing the best ones for you and customising them. This leads into responsive theme design, with advice on layout, images and navigation. Finally, learn how to build a web app in WordPress, making use of plugins, APIs and custom code.
If you need to hit the ground running with mobile WordPress development, then this book is for you. With practical examples and exercises from the beginning, it will help you build your first mobile WordPress site without having to learn aspects of WordPress or mobile development that arent relevant. It will also help you understand which approaches work and why, so you can apply this knowledge to future projects.
What you will learn from this book
- Identify which approach to mobile development will work best for your site, by understanding the needs of the site and its visitors
- Find out which plugins and pre-built responsive themes are best for quickly making a WordPress site work on mobiles, and customize them for your site
- Install responsive themes and customise them to fit with your existing design or brand
- Make your existing WordPress theme or site responsive, adjusting the layout and interface to look great on mobiles, including phones and tablets
- Take responsive design further, with responsive text and navigation, for better ergonomics and user experience
- Learn how to make images and other media responsive and reduce their file size on mobile devices using inbuilt WordPress functionality
- Create an app-like site, with a design and interface resembling a native app
- Access the functionality of the users phone from the browser to create a WordPress web app, and learn which features youll be able to use in future
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Beginners Guide
Who this book is written for
If you have dabbled in WordPress or been working with it for years, and want to build mobile or responsive themes or sites, this book is for you. Even if you cant write a line of code, the first few chapters will help you create a simple mobile site. But to get the most from the book, you will need a good understanding of HTML, CSS and WordPress itself.
This book is for owners of self-hosted WordPress sites, not sites hosted at wordpress.com.
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Rachel McCollin is a WordPress Developer specializing in responsive and mobile web design. She first learned to code as a teenager when her parents bought her a computer with very few good games available she learned BASIC so that she could write her own code.
After gaining a degree in Psychology, she worked in e-learning, moving to web design after editing the Labour Party's general election website in 2001.
Rachel now runs Compass Design, a web design agency based in Birmingham, England, but with clients across the UK and internationally. The agency was established in 2010 and quickly began specializing in building WordPress themes and sites, with a slant towards responsive themes. Compass Design now prides itself on making all of the new sites it develops mobile-friendly. Rachel tweets about WordPress, mobile development, and many other things that catch her eye. You can follow her on twitter at @rachelmccollin.
I've learned most of what I know about web design, and WordPress development in particular, from the web design community. I'd like to thank all of the WordPress developers and designers, who have inspired and taught me, in particular the organizing team for WordCamp UK, without whom I would have never got the chance to discuss my ideas on mobile WordPress development with an audience.
A number of friends and colleagues have provided support, feedback, and advicethey include Andy Cobley, Tracey Dixon, Kriss Fearon, Todd Halfpenny, Sue Davis, Karen Bugg, Gary Jones, and Isaac Keyet at Automattic. My colleague Nivi Morales has taken up a lot of the slack in terms of client work while I've been writing this book, and given me invaluable moral support. And last, but not least, I have to thank my husband Pete, who doesn't let the fact that talk of WordPress and mobile websites makes his eyes glaze over, get in the way of his unwavering support for me in running my business and writing this book.
Evangelos Evangelou currently lives in Cyprus and is the Creative Director of PricklyPear Media.
Evangelos was born in the UK to Cypriot refugee parents from Kyrenia. His parents came to the UK in the mid-80s where they had their own catering business.
In 2005, Evangelos completed an honors B.Sc. degree in Web & Multimedia from the University of Central Lancashire. His studies were later finalized with an M.A. in Animation. Soon after his degree, Evangelos moved to Cyprus where he worked for SpiderNet (now PrimeTelcurrently the largest ISP on the island) creating and building professional websites.
During his time of employment, he worked on several large-scale websites, including three of Cyprus' biggest websites such as Cyprus Airways, PhileNews, and the University of Cyprus. Soon after, PricklyPear Media Ltd. was created.
Now, Evangelos spends much of his time with personal clients and template production with Vorel Media, founded by Evangelos Evangelou and his good friend Bryan Vorel.
Evangelos has experience in WordPress, SEO, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and template production. He is also a strong forum member on SitePoint, and was recently given a 'mentor' badge. On that note, Evangelos loves what he does and loves life!
I'd like to thank Packt Publishing, who gave me this opportunity in reviewing such a great book. I would also like to thank SitePoint for being such a great place for web designers.
My personal life is also very important, this acknowledgment goes to my loving parents, who made sure I was happy and had everything, achieving the unimaginable for their children (as in their mind we're still kids). I'd like to thank my four brothers for the support that they gave while reviewing this book, which would have been impossible without their constant re-enforcement.
Apart from my family, I'd like to thank everybody who helped PricklyPear Media in making it what it is today; this includes my past employers and co-workers. I look forward to Packt Publishing publishing more amazing books.
Steve Graham is an Entrepreneur and Web Developer specializing in WordPress websites. As a co-owner of Internet Mentor (http://internet-mentor.co.uk/meet-the-team/), he aims to ensure that all of his clients derive measurable and sustainable direct results that drive business growth.
Steve focuses on enabling clients, whether this is in relation to their business websites and social media activities, or in a broader sense through his other great passion of delivering presentation and leadership skills.
Todd Halfpenny has been working as a Software Designer for mobile telecoms operators for over 10 years and has an innate love for anything, and everything, related to mobile technology.
For the past four years, he has also worked on many WordPress projects, both personal and client based. Through these projects, he has developed tons of WordPress plugins, and among those listed in the WordPress.org plugin repository are the highly popular Widgets on Pages and Responsive TwentyTen.
His journey with mobile technology has also led him to develop a few Android applications including Asssist, which was the first Dribbble client for the platform.
Todd can be found online at http://toddhalfpenny.com and on Twitter at @toddhalfpenny.
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