This Week in Mobile Web Development (#140)

Read this on the Web Mobile Web Weekly January 11, 2017   #140 Holly Schinsky recommends Design for Internationalization — Useful tips to help you design for internationalization, ensuring important details don’t get lost in translation. John Saito Brian Rinaldi recommends The Cost of Native App Development is Too High — Nader argues that, with a few exceptions, it doesn’t make sense to build and maintain mobile apps using native frameworks and native development teams. Nader Dabit Chris Brandrick recommends Mobile Sites Using Modals Now Affected By Google Ranking Changes — First announced in August last year, but worth a reminder: “after January 10, 2017, pages where content is not easily accessible to a user on the transition from the mobile search results may not rank as highly.” Google Sponsored Level up from Hybrid — Upgrade to JavaScript Native and native controls. Build truly native mobile apps w/ Angular or JavaScript. Free & Open Source. NativeScript Brian Rinaldi recommends A 2017 Wishlist for Progressive Web Apps & Mobile Web — A member of the Flipkart team, who launched one of the first prominent PWAs, shares his thoughts on what changes he’d like to see in the coming year. Karan Peri Brian Rinaldi recommends How Google's Mobile-Only Index Will Change SEO in 2017 — What’s the impact of Google’s decision to launch a separate mobile search index, which will eventually become its primary index. Matt Janaway Peter Cooper recommends Offline Caching Causing Duplicate Asset Downloads — Originally titled ‘How Removing Caching Improved Mobile Performance by 25%’, this demonstrates how caching isn’t a performance win in every instance. Case Taintor Holly Schinsky recommends How To Communicate Hidden Gestures in a Mobile App — Design techniques for incorporating hidden gestures and making them discoverable in your mobile apps. Nick Babich Brian Rinaldi recommends Communicating With Websockets in a NativeScript Angular Application — Learn how to use websockets for real-time communication in a NativeScript cross-platform app built with the Angular framework. Nic Raboy Holly Schinsky recommends Playing with React Native Animations — Learn how to use the React Native Animated API using some simple examples. Spencer Carli Holly Schinsky recommends How to Use Progressive Web Apps and Mobile Push for E-Commerce — Progressive web apps address the shortcomings of both the browser and the native apps; establishing itself as a superhero for marketers and developers. Pravya Pravin Holly Schinsky recommends Building a Progressive Web App - Part 1: Background and Back-end — Part 1 in a series from this development teams’ journey to create a full-blown Progressive Web App from scratch. Thomas Lund Sigdestad Brian Rinaldi recommends An Example of the Ionic 2 Menu Component — Ray clarifies how to use the menu component in Ionic 2 mobile app. Raymond Camden Holly Schinsky recommends PhoneGap Apps with Vue.js? Yes Please — Vue.js is gaining in popularity, find out why it’s a good choice for mobile and what resources are available to help you use it in your mobile apps. Holly Schinsky Brian Rinaldi recommends The Ad Block Apocalypse Didn't Arrive and Doesn't Look Like It's Going to — Despite the support on iOS, ad blocker usage seems to be leveling off or declining around the globe. Does this mean that content publishers have avoided a crisis? Patrick Kulp Holly Schinsky recommends Querying for Couchbase Documents in a NativeScript Angular Mobile Application — How to query Couchbase for documents based on its properties in your NativeScript Angular app. Nic Raboy Brian Rinaldi recommends What AMP (Maybe) Means for News Developers — A discussion with members of the Globe and Mail, Seattle Times and DocumentCloud on what AMP means to journalism on the web. Source Curated by Brian Rinaldi and Holly Schinsky for Cooperpress. Cooperpress is located at Office 30, Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK Update your email address or stop receiving MWW here

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Adios

'Adios' is a great looking One Page portfolio WordPress theme suited for freelancers or digital agencies. This theme by Gfxbucket really feels like they've spent time on the typography and imagery vs other themes. My favorite feature being that gorgeous testimonial slider layout with the signatures by the names. Other features include big image intro slider, team section, Twitter feed, pricing table and a portfolio section with category filter. Great to know the WordPress theme comes with the powerful Visual Composer page builder, valued at $34.

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The following is an extract from our book, CSS Master, written by Tiffany B. Brown. Copies are sold in stores worldwide, or you can buy it in ebook form here. CSS rules are matched to elements with selectors. There are a number of ways to do this, and you’re probably familiar with most of them. […]

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