How to make a website that can be view from PC, cellphone and PDA?

I am a newbie.
Anyone knows how to make a website that can be view from PC, cellphone and
PDA?

Thanx,
Kelvin

You would want to use CSS to layout the site, and use Media Types for 3
different style sheets which configure the page to the user agent, PC, PDA
etc....

Originally posted by: Newsgroup User
I am a newbie.
Anyone knows how to make a website that can be view from PC, cellphone and
PDA?

Thanx,
Kelvin

"CarlGrint" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

You would want to use CSS to layout the site, and use Media Types for 3
different style sheets which configure the page to the user agent, PC, PDA
etc....

Thank you for enlightening me. Can I do these in dreamweaver? Do I need 3

web sites, or only 1? Do I need some special web hosting to let my web site
be visited by cellphone, or PDA?

Thank you again.

You should be able to just use the 1 website, but set the layout using CSS
media types, so 3 different style sheets configure the layout etc so it is set
for the Phone, PDA or PC.

Obviously a Phone has a lot smaller screen to view details...but I have viewed
my own sites, older ones built with tables which work on a PDA, it is obviously
best to use% for the layout, so that the layout stretches and shrinks
well,rather then setting Pixel sizes.

You can use 2 or 3 style sheets which are confirgued to your target user
agent( PDA, PC, Phone), you set media types by adding Media = to your style
sheet link, such as the below, which I use for the Print style sheet.

<link href="stylesheets/print.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
media="print" />

read more at the W3.org site on Media types, and the available list, one url
would be http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/media.html

You might find you want to hide images on your PDA and Phone viewed version of
the site, so you can set their display to None in the style sheet used for
them, as an example of the difference between the PC site and the PDA/Phone
site.

You can do all this in dreamweaver, although not through the front end, that I
remember, personally I simply point to my main style using the Dreamweaver
palette, but then go into the Head, and add in the alterative stylesheets by
hand...it is not painful at all.

It is a good idea to take a look around the W3.org site to read up on the
different requirement/restraints of viewing/producing for sites based on
PDA/Phone.

Regarding the PDA/Phones accessing your site, and hosting, I know that PDA's
use a browser, so they simply type in the url of your normal site....phones may
be using the WAP protocal, and there is a specific WAP address for those
instead of www, but to be honest I am not certain on that aspect.


I hope it goes well for you.

Originally posted by: Newsgroup User
"CarlGrint" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

You would want to use CSS to layout the site, and use Media Types for 3
different style sheets which configure the page to the user agent, PC, PDA
etc....

Thank you for enlightening me. Can I do these in dreamweaver? Do I need 3

web sites, or only 1? Do I need some special web hosting to let my web site
be visited by cellphone, or PDA?

Thank you again.