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WordPress Mobile Web Development: Beginner's Guide

By : RACHEL MCCOLLIN
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WordPress Mobile Web Development: Beginner's Guide

By: RACHEL MCCOLLIN

Overview of this book

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 Beginner's Guide" will benefit you whether you've 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 aren't relevant. It will also help you understand which approaches work and why, so you can apply this knowledge to future projects.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
WordPress Mobile Web Development Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Acknowledgement
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Chapter 5. Working with Text and Navigation

Our site is now looking much better on mobile devices, and can truly be described as responsive. Pat yourself on the back, you've built your first responsive WordPress theme!

The next stage is to make some improvements to the user experience (UX). It's great having a site with a responsive layout, but we also need to factor in the fact that mobile users may need to interact differently with the site.

In this chapter, we will focus on making it easier to read our site's content and to move around the site using the navigation menu. Specifically, we will learn:

  • How to make sure that text is legible on different screen sizes

  • Why using ems for text sizing is a good idea

  • How to specify different fonts for different screen sizes

  • How to ensure navigation is styled so that links are easy to tap on touch screens

  • How to amend navigation on different devices to improve the user experience

We'll look at a quick way to make the text more legible on smaller screens...