Youtube and Big Screens

Joe Martinez warns that more people are drawn by Youtube to do web surfing on their large screen TV , and that web pages need to be designed to play well in such an environment.

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Google's Tools for Mobile Web Design

Aleyda Solis exhorts webmasters to consult Google's Mobile SEO tools when designing their website. She specifically mentions:

1. Is Your Web Page Mobile-Friendly
2. Fetch as Google
3. Mobility Usability Report

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Mobile Apps vs. Mobile Website

Fredric Paul observes that responsive web sites consume less data than installing mobile apps.

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Responsive Web Design Tips On Sitepoint.com

I find Sitepoint.com to be a great source of practical advice on web site creation.   Recently I have been working on developing mobile-friendly web resources, and relevant posts include:

• Simon Codrington - Building Great Mobile Menus
• Joyce Echessa - Mobile Design Resources
• Aaron Grogg - Adaptive (Server Based) Web Design
• Ada Ivanoff - Free Icon Sets
• Richa Jain - Mobile Friendly Design
• Richa Jain - Seven Best Practices for Mobile Site Design
• Richa Jain - Understanding the Mobile User
• Rahul Lalmalani - Best Practices in Responsive Designing
• Vinay Raghu - Better Usability
• Amando Roggio - Semantic HTML Elements
• Brett Romero - Visual Studio for Mobile Apps
• Annarita Trafici - Images and the Picture Element
• Gian Wild - Slideshow Inaccessibility

In the course of curating these links, I also ran across this article by Dave Rupert on Responsive Web Design Bloat.   Rupert observed that the media queries and CSS result in a 10% expansion in downloaded code.   And I found this video by Eliot Sykes: Responsive Typography Tips.

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Google Favors Mobile Sites

Sharon Gaudin offers tips to Web designers and SEO specialists who want to obtain a top Google ranking by offering a mobile-oriented site . At minimum a minimum, test your Web site using Google's test suite.

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Building Responsive Mobile Sites With jQuery

Anastasia Salter suggests "Building [Responsive] Mobile Sites With JQuery ." As I have almost no programming ability, the use of a template (albeit using an alternate technology) was essential to my current responsive web project.

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Anastasia Salter reports on responsive web design for sharing knowledte using a variety of HTMS clients.

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