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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

Developing a web app—designing the app


When developing our web app, it’s important to start by identifying what it needs to do. By using the Carborelli’s web app, users will be able to:

  • Choose up to three ice cream flavors for a sundae

  • Add extras such as sprinkles

  • Choose to eat the sundae in or order the ingredients for delivery

  • Make a purchase via PayPal

  • Choose a collection or delivery time

Users will also have access to information such as opening hours, menu, and so on, on the main site.

In terms of the look and feel of the app, we need it to do the following:

  • Make the process very clear and simple so that users can start building their sundae as soon as they arrive on the site

  • Give signposts as the users progress through the app so that they know how far through the process they have got

  • Make it fun and visually appealing

Let’s imagine that we have created a mockup for the app’s home page, which looks like the following screenshot:

As we can see, this design has some things in common with the main...