ABC Great Rivers Region MOBI Pages

Creating a MOBI Site

Tim Berners-Lee is correct. MOBI does increase the cost of web presence!

The needs of cell-based connections require either:

Returning all pages of a web site to text and very small graphics (under 2k)

Or

Keeping the already present pages the same and converting their main substance to accommodate the technologies of many handheld devices - especially when these are connected to cell-phone based wireless internet.

This can be done by building each MOBI page from scratch or by using a conversion program such as the Applet contained in Adobe's Go Live (versions 8/CS2 or 9/CS3). (This eliminates from your existing page anything that would stop your page from loading on a mobile device and replaces the coding, dtd, and markup language.

Here is a list of what you may be used to using as either a web surfer or a designer/composer of web pages that must be limited or eliminated for MOBI connection:

Pictures than "Thumbnails" (images) severly limited
Hot Spots on Pictures (Image Maps)-eliminated
Frames - eliminated
Tables - limited
Nested Tables
Tables for Layout - eliminated
Plugin Supported Features - Except for Flash, severely limited
All images 200 by 150 or less!

In a way, this is a combination of a return to 28kbits dialup web written in a an xml discipline. Yet, this is what is needed for the connection speeds of cell phone based wireless internet is not much faster.

The following is for the practiced web composer/designer:

What is most different about the MOBI standards now set by the WWW consortium:

Markup language is a variant of XHTML. It is XHTML-Basic or XHTML-MP.

The DTD (Document Type Definition) is <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.0//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/xhtml-mobile10.dtd">

Encoding must be: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> Standard UTF that is often assumed, cannot be. The above MUST be in place.

If you want to test/validate your page(s) that you hope accommodate(s) the needs of mobile users' devices, go to: http://ready.mobi/

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

Your Web Site
Technologies
Contacts

Archive of Articles

GRR Churches Doing Web Ministry

Is Web Ministry for Us?

Keep Users Coming Back

Learn from Your Users

Make Your Site Intuitive

MOBI

Plan Your Site for Best Communication

Release Form to authorize use of adults' images in video and/or still photos on the web and/or print

Resource Review:

Creating Effective Ministry Web Sites by David Davoust

RSS

Useability or Design?

Using Video on Your Site

What You Need

WIKI

Blogging

Browsers (e.g. Internet Explorer)

Listed below are some areas of experience with which we may be able to help you as your question pertains to use of these technologies in ministry.

Dwight Stinnett
   Executive Minister
    Projection & PowerPoint
    PowerPoint Composition

Roland Sundberg
Executive Administrator
Database Questions

Cheryl Henson
   Area I
   Ministerial Recruitment
   Ministerial Cont. Ed.
      PowerPoint Compositions
      E-mail Newsletters
      Web Page

John Grisham
   Area II
   Stewardship
      E-mail as Communication
      PowerPoint Composition

Richard Ricks
   (Tech Team Leader)
   Area III
   Multimedia & Projection
   Web Technologies

Randy McNeely
   Area IV
   Bivocational Ministry
   Costa Rica Partnership
     Using PowerPoint for Display
        during events

Muriel Johnson
   Area V
   Church Planting
    Using Video Chat
      VOIP (Telephone over       Internet)
      E-mail as Communication       Tool