Envisioning healthy congregations
engaged in effective
Christian Ministry
locally AND globally.
Envisioning healthy congregations
engaged in effective
Christian Ministry
locally AND globally.
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:
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
GRR Churches Doing Web Ministry
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:
Using Video on Your Site
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
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
Roland Sundberg
Executive Administrator
Database Questions
John Grisham
Areas II & IV
Stewardship
E-mail
PowerPoint Comp
Richard Ricks
(Tech Team Leader)
Area I & III
Multimedia & Projection
Web Technologies
Muriel Johnson
Area V
Church Planting
Using Video Chat
VOIP (Telephone over Internet)
E-mail
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