LET’S BUILD A MOBILE SITE!

Maura KeatingBryant University

Going Mobile: Library websites, services, and apps on mobile devices

New England Chapter of ASIS&T (NEASIS&T)April 23, 2012

How are mobile sites like kites?

Flickr CC Rob Watling

Let's go fly a kite Up to the highest height Let's go fly a kite And send it soaring

Up through the atmosphere Up where the air is clear Oh, let's go fly a kite Let's go fly a kite!

Flickr CC Chris Devers

Define Your Vocabulary

mobileapp

mobile web site

jQuery MobileShout out to

Edward Iglesias!

Calendar of Events

Feb 2011: Site goes live on test (my) server

May 2011: Site goes live on Bryant server

September 2011: Site “discovered”

February 2012: Mobile Team created

April 18, 2012: Bryant’s 1st

App-A-Thon

mlibrary.bryant.edu

Development using jQuery Mobile

Previous knowledge of HTML, CSS, PHP, etc.

Images using Illustrator & Photoshop

http://www.testiphone.com/

http://ipadpeek.com/

“Don’t let perfect get in the way of good”

Flickr CC Stephen Dyrgas

Rockin’ the App-A-Thon

Next Steps

Flickr CC Be…n

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Thanks!