Mobile Web Dev Basics

[seoyodaperson]

I'm a wiz at standard website development, but I am realizing that I had better get up to speed about developing sites for mobile browsers. Can anyone point me to some basics?

I'm getting a mobile.mysite.com subdomain, and may get a second and third (mobile2 and mobile3) so that all three common mobile screen sizes each have their own version of my website. But first, I'm looking for step-by-step answers to things like:

• Create in HTML but give the files a WML extension? Could it really be that simple?
• Do regular screen font sizes appear the same size on a mobile device?
• Tutorial about setting up automatic browser detection and redirect using PHP or .htaccess or some other method?

Thanks 1,000,000!

[oheso]

Welcome to a nightmare! There's hardly anything like "standards" out there, and things change quickly.

For tutorials and best pratices, try:

http://mobiforge.com/starting/story/...velopers-guide

http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/

http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer...bile-today-833

http://sixrevisions.com/tools/10-exc...obile-devices/

http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archi...of_mobile.html

For mobile browser detection in php: http://detectmobilebrowsers.mobi/

That should be enough to get you started (coding or drinking, whichever) ...

[oheso]

Book Review: Professional Mobile Web Development:

http://books.slashdot.org/story/11/0...eb-Development