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GRR Web Site Is on its Way to Be more MobileDevice Friendly

Those who issue domain extensions (e.g. .org, .com, .net, etc.) added .mobi last year (mobi as in mobile). This past May these domains went on the market. Your GRR has registered www.abc-grr.mobi as a service to you.

• Starting with the home page of the GRR Site, you will be able to use more and more of the pages of the site on your mobile device.

• To prevent an inappropriate use of abc-grr.mobi that would embarrass users, our GRR, and Christian witness.

The "father" of the internet, Tim Berners-Lee, made a case against listing the new domain noting that it would bring great expense in time and financial resources to corporate and non-profit organizations. He argued that the world wide web consortium should, instead of forcing those with web sites to create new sites from scratch, urge the use of technologies that are already present (style sheets:CSS and CSS2) to format existing sites' pages on the fly so your pda, phone, etc. could receive and display the information quickly.

This is the path that the GRR attempted to take. Instead of creating a new site and doubling the expense in hours and resources to maintain it, we would use technologies, restraint and discipline

• limiting the number of graphics

• practice of "writing for the web" (Succinctly)

However, the needs of your mobile device - especially when not connected to the internet through a router-based connection, but through a cell-phone tower based connection - have caused us to start developing a parallel site within our main site so that you have less trouble finding the information you need and want from our site. This will start with the the home page and calendar.

What do you need to do to get the best wireless connection the GRR web site?

1. Determine which type of wireless connection you have.

2. Connect to the GRR web page that best supports your connection
   
   Go to: http://www.abc-grr.mobi
   
   

   Choose "Office, Hotel, Restaurant, Store Connection" if in one of these or in a building that you have been told has "wireless" available

   Choose "Cell-phone" if you are not in the above or you are attempting to connect with the GRR web site from your cell phone-based internet service connection.

   Choose "Wireless Mobile Broadband" if you are attempting to connect with your laptop's pc card or built in hardware (e.g. Verizon, AT&T, Sprint) using the service you have signed up for.

 

 

 

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3 Types of Wireless Internet Connections(And use of abc-grr.org)

Bernards-Lee Case against MOBI

The Corporate Case (Rebuttal) For MOBI

Guidelines for formatting pages for MOBI

Creating a MOBI Site

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