ptg16476052Workshop 60121
n Don’t link repeatedly to the same site on the same page.
n Don’t clutter the page with a large number of pretty but unnecessary images.
n Don’t split individual topics across pages.Workshop
Put on your thinking cap again because it’s time for another review. These questions,
quizzes, and exercises will remind you about the items that you should (or should not)
include on your pages.
Q&A
Q I’ve been creating pages, and they work when I test them in the browser. Is it
really important to validate them?
A It’s impossible to test your web pages in all of the browsers on all the mobile
devices people are using, and making sure that they validate provides a baseline
level of assurance that your pages are built correctly and that they’ll work in situa-
tions that you haven’t personally tested them with.
Q I’m converting existing documents into web pages. These documents are text
heavy and are intended to be read from start to finish instead of being scanned
quickly. I can’t restructure or redesign the content to better follow the guide-
lines you’ve suggested—that’s not my job. What can I do?
A All is not lost. You can still improve the overall presentation of these documents by
providing reasonable indexes to the content (summaries, tables of contents pages,
subject indexes, and so on) and including standard navigation links. In other words,
you can create an easily navigable framework around the documents themselves.
This can go a long way toward improving content that’s otherwise difficult to read
online. But if it really isn’t your job to restructure the content for the mobile Web,
you should provide feedback to the content creators. They need to know that the
format they are providing you won’t work well for mobile Web customers. You
can even suggest they get this book so they better understand what they should be
doing.