Mobile browsers are optimized so as to display Web content most effectively for small screens on portable devices. Mobile browser software must be small and efficient to accommodate the low memory capacity and low-bandwidth of wireless handheld devices. Typically they were stripped-down web browsers, but as of 2006 some mobile browsers can handle more recent technologies like CSS 2.1, JavaScript, and Ajax.
1. Tips for Wireframing a Usable Mobile App Interface
This tutorial walks you through how to effectively plan for mobile iOS/ Android app design. There are plenty of helpful hints and tips to make your designs a success.
2. Convert a Menu to a Dropdown for Small Screens
This easy-to-follow tutorial shows how to write HTML code for a dropdown menu that converts cleanly to mobile screen sizes.
3. Fluid Images
This tutorial gives the scripts you need to create fluid images and videos that easily transfer from large monitors to small mobile devices.
4. CSS: Elastic Videos
Learn how to create elastic HTML5 videos, elastic object and Iframe embedded videos, and how to create fixed width and elastic videos in CSS and HTML.
5. Responsive Design with CSS3 Media Queries
Learn how to use HTML5 and CSS3 media queries to create a design that is cross-browser responsive. In other words, learn how to make your website look great, no matter if visitors are using a mobile device or a PC.
6. Responsive Web Design: What It Is and How To Use It
This SmashingMagazine tutorial gives an excellent overview of responsive web design along with tips and coding needed to implement it.
7. How to Create a Mobile Site with MoFuse
This tutorial walks you through how to use MoFuse for coding your mobile website design. Keep in mind that MoFuse does the coding for you, so even beginners can use this tutorial.
8. Coding for the Mobile Web
Simple things like using relative measurements instead of fixed widths for your site can make your code more flexible and renderable on mobile devices. This article gives plenty of helpful basic tips, perfect for those who are new to mobile web design.
9. Mobile Website Tutorial – Mobile 101
If you’re going to create several mobile sites, this article will get you started on knowing what you need to crank out high-quality designs.
10. How to Use CSS3 Media Queries to Create a Mobile Version of your Website
This incredible tutorial from SmashingMagazine shows how to add CSS3 stylesheets for mobile devices to your actual website coding.
11. How to Build a Mobile Website
Code your site from scratch or update your existing site to work with mobile devices using this detailed tutorial from SmashingMagazine.
12. Mobile Web Design: Best Practices
You can create a normal mobile website, or you can create a fantastically awesome mobile website. Here are the best practices for designing for a mobile interface.
13. 10 Key Considerations for Your Mobile Web Design Strategy
If you’re deploying mobile websites across your family of internet properties, you’ll need a strategy. Read through these important considerations in this article before beginning.