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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

Optimizing text for small screens


Have you ever opened a website on a mobile phone and found it completely impossible to read the text because it's so small? Or, have you ever opened a mobile version of a site and found the text so big that you're constantly scrolling down the page? Perhaps you've had experience of trying to read text that used a fancy font and wasn't very easy to read.

This is why it's so important to ensure that the text in our site is easy to read. Things we need to consider when making the text more legible include:

  • Size: The text should be large enough to be read comfortably on small screen sizes and should resize appropriately when the device is turned into a different orientation.

  • Font: It should be easy to read and render well on a mobile screen.

  • Consistency: The changes to fonts or text sizes should affect the entire site. Some changes will need to be carried through to all parts of the page, such as the header and footer, while other changes may not, for example to...