Emphasis Competencies
#4 Expand my experience
skills, and understanding in web development ICT technologies.
Self-Assessment |
Artifacts |
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Where did you
create this artifact? The artifact “How Web Development Is Changing In Response to Mobile
Technology” was created during course ICT 575. The instructor assigned this artifact as a Graduate student
requirement and challenged students to articulate current and emerging trends
related to providing web content to mobile devices. What I Learned,
How did you learn this? I learned by doing research on mobile web development trends that one
current problem in web development is that developers are struggling to deliver
high performance quality content across multiple mobile operating systems and
hardware platforms. The many changes developers need to make to accommodate
mobile technology can lead to frustration when creating a mobile experience
that needs to work for 550 million people across 7,000 different kinds of
phones. With the current rise in popularity and usage of the iPhone and other
Smart Phone technologies user expectations for the mobile experience has
grown exponentially. Why this is
important: In an effort to make web development more standardized, manageable
and cost efficient, business and industry professional have begun to work
together toward a potential solution. Ian Jacobs, editor of the World Wide
Web Consortium (W3C)’s HTML4 recommendations and other standards stated
that: “The Web is now a platform for
applications with two driving forces. First is the proliferation of diverse
devices joined with the variety of browsers, this has complicate life for
developers, who want to “write once and deploy everywhere.” Second, is, “the
Web has now embraced the social networking model which can enable businesses
to reach hundreds of millions of more customers”. The web can now be accessed from mobile
smartphone and tablet devices and as the use of these devices continue to
increase developers will be constantly challenged to develop applications,
tools, products and services to meet the needs of consumers and business
managers and executives. How can you apply?
In my role as a developer I will look to implement standard
development tools that make mobile web development more efficient. HTML 5 is one development tool growing in popularity and can be used
by developers to create mobile friendly websites. On December 17, 2012 the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C) published the complete definition of the HTML5 (World,
2012). Now developers have a standard
in web development that they can begin to use to address some of the
interoperability, browser fragmentation and hardware design issues seen
today. HTML 5 is beginning to have an
impact in web development. Web
developers are changing the way they build websites because of HTML5, a set
of standards designed to make website development easier in a mobile
multimedia world. What challenges
& obstacles did you overcome? To Implement processes that customize the presentation of content
for mobile devices in my website assignment I had to learn how to use CSS
media queries to create a mobile version of my website. This was challenging for me as I had not
researched any techniques or had any experience in mobile web development. I
was able to learn a few techniques from the text book, lectures and internet
research that enabled me to specify under what conditions a style sheet or a
particular set of CSS rules should be applied. I was able to create style
sheets for Android, iPhone and iPad devices. I was
also able to test the HTML and CSS code by using 3rd party free
internet based mobile device emulators. |
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Research
Paper: How
Web Development Is Changing In Response to Mobile Technology. In this research report I will provide a
literature review of how web development is changing in response to mobile
technology. |
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