Delivering Mobile-Friendly WebSites with MVC4: A Developers Guide

In the last 10 years, one thing that became apparent was the neccesity to provide websites that are mobile device friendly. This book is a developer friendly guide on how to use MVC4 to deliver mobile-friendly websites.

When it was published in 2012, one of the hot trends was the movement towards phones and tablets, but many existing corporate websites looked terrible on those platforms. There are a lot of corporate developers with experience developing on the Microsoft platforms, and MVC in particular. The ASP.NET MVC 4 Framework was the latest in the evolution of Microsoft’s ASP.NET platform, and it contained many new features, including the ability to add some features to support mobile devices.

In this book, you will learn how to build on your existing MVC skills and leverage those new features to create websites using an Adaptive View Design pattern so that they will adapt to the type of device that the user is browsing with, whether that device is a desktop, tablet, or mobile phone, and deliver appropriately formatted web pages that look great on each device!

Topics this book covers:

• You will learn how designing for a mobile device is different than a desktop design
• You will learn how to use MVC to generate a website that will adapt to our user's devices and return multiple views from the same code base
• You will learn how jQuery.Mobile integrates into the MVC programming model
• You will learn how to customize the layout templates for MVC so they will be optimized for use on a mobile device
• You will learn how to use special tags on your fields so they will show up properly on a mobile device
• You will learn how you can apply most of these techniques to your existing MVC3 projects
• You will see how using a recipe can greatly enhance your productivity

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