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Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile

By : Shane Gliser
Book Image

Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile

By: Shane Gliser

Overview of this book

<p>jQuery Mobile is a touch-optimized web framework (also known as a JavaScript library or a mobile framework) currently being developed by the jQuery project team. The development focuses on creating a framework compatible with a wide variety of smartphones and tablet computers made necessary by the growing but heterogeneous tablet and smartphone market. The jQuery Mobile framework is compatible with other mobile app frameworks and platforms such as PhoneGap, Worklight, and more.<br /><br />Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile reflects the author’s years of experience and exposes every hidden secret which will ease your mobile app development. With just a smattering of design and user experience thrown in, going through this book will allow you to confidently say, “yes, I can do that.”<br /><br />We’ll start out with effective mobile prototyping and then move directly to the core of what every one of your mobile sites will need. Then, we’ll move on to the fancy stuff.<br /><br />After creating some basic business templates and a universal JavaScript, we will move into the more interesting side of mobile development but we always try to keep an eye on progressive enhancement. jQuery Mobile is all about reaching everyone. So is this book.<br /><br />"Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile" will take your basic mobile knowledge and help you make versatile, unique sites quickly and easily.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 9. Content Management Systems and jQM

"I am a web developer. It is a waste of my time and talent to take a Microsoft Word document and cut and paste content to a web page every time the client wants a change" — Overheard everywhere, countless times.

If this statement resonates within you, then you need to be familiar with content management systems (CMS). They're an easy and powerful way to put publishing power in your users' hands so that you can focus on less tedious, better paying work. All you have to do is help the client set up their CMS, choose and customize their templates, and leave the content creation and maintenance to them. CMS is often at the core of both small business websites and corporate websites.

For the popular platforms, there are many plugins and themes to choose from. Brochureware sites have never had it so easy. In fact, platforms like WordPress and Squarespace are making this process so easy that often a web developer is not needed for anything more than customizing...