Editor's Note
07.06.00
In striving to bring you some of the latest changes on the
Internet, we bring you this article of two new developments on the
web. As many of you already know, XML and its subset languages,
have been highly touted. Many sites builders have already
implemented these smart languages. Why learn a new language? Well,
as the author of today's newsletter wrote, "[i]t's estimated
that by the year 2002 there will be over 800 million wireless
users around the world. Eventually all wireless tools will come
equipped with WAP as standard issue. That's a lot of possible
viewers for your website."
We have received a lot of very positive feedback on the article
"Bite The Love Bug Back." However, there was a small problem.
The instruction to disable active scripting in Internet Explorer can
make it difficult to surf on many sites, so Ellery recommends enabling
this setting in IE: Go to Tools | Internet Options | Security. Click
Custom Level. Scroll down near the end until you find Scripting|Active
scripting and change the setting to enable.
There were some comments regarding why use Outlook at all?
The answer is that many people have been using Outlook for a long
time and have hundreds of emails saved in this format and they are
not going to change email programs. Thus, they need this information.
Thanks to Ellery Coleman for bringing this to our attention. Ellery
is webmaster at HotWays.com
With Best Regards,
Pete
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Are you Ready for WAP & WML?
Acronyms make the computer world go round. Things like HTML, DHTML,
XHTML; it's enough to make a grown man cry. Well, look out! There's
a new player in alphabet-town: "WAP." So what is it and why should
you care? WAP stands for "Wireless Application Protocol" and it
allows people to access the Net using wireless devices like mobile
phones and other gadgets.
It's estimated that by the year 2002 there will be over 800 million
wireless users around the world. Eventually all wireless tools will
come equipped with WAP as standard issue. That's a lot of possible
viewers for your website. The problem is that wireless net-surfers
will not be able to access your HTML-driven site. Their devices can
only read sites built in (get ready for another acronym!) WML.
WML stands for "Wireless Markup Language." (Are you taking notes
here?) So if you presently have a website built in HTML and you want
mobile users to be able to view it, you'll need to make another
version of it in WML. The good news is that WML is not hard to learn
and can be picked up easily. Plus, there are plenty of sites online
that will teach you everything you'll ever want to know about this
new technology. Some of the better ones are:
www.wapdrive.net
Learn what WAP is (and isn't), how to write WAP "cards" (not pages"),
and best of all, you'll find some free software you can download to
make your own WAP site. Free.
www.wapuseek.com
Contains Wap articles, links, tools and more. Make sure you stop in
the developers area for all kinds of webmaster tools for creating
your own WAP pages.
www.gelon.net
A ton of helpful information here: leaning WML, books, where you can
host your new WAP sites and more.
www.anywhereyougo.com
100% wireless application development: archives, news, books, and
more. Sign up for their helpful newsletter to keep abreast of what's
going on in this new field.
As far as building your WAP site you can download free software or
use an online editor available at some websites.
www.wapmine.com
WAPPage 1.0 is an extensive and powerful design tool for WAP
(Wireless Application Protocol) Sites.
www.mobphone.com
WAP publishing tool for cellular mobile WAP phones.
Nokia has jumped into the arena by offering "The Nokia WML Studio".
A free download that adds on to Dreamweaver to create WML content
from within Dreamweaver's interface. Get it at:
www.macromedia.com
and click on the
extensions for Dreamweaver.
For hosting your new wireless-enabled site, check out:
www.hoiley.com Offering a variety of free services
www.tagtag.com Build and host your site for free.
www.wappy.to The first online WAPsite builder complete with
hosting.
Keep in mind that the viewing area on a mobile device is a whole lot
smaller than that of a computer monitor. So you need to be short and
concise. Plan on about 10 text lines per WAP "card" (instead of
"page.") Due to slow transmission speeds typically 14.4 to 19.6 Kbps
you need to keep text and graphics down to bare minimum.
Wireless phones use "microbrowsers" to surf the web so you need to
make sure the web cards in WML look good on a wireless device. But
what if you don't have that kind of luxury? No problem, hop over to
wapdrive.net and you'll find something called "The
Wapalizer" that will allow you to look at any WAP site using your
regular browser. Just type in the URL and a new window opens up that
imitates a mobile phones interface. You can browse through the entire
site to make sure everything will be viewed correctly by your mobile
guests.
So there you have it. WAP and WML, two good things that just
naturally go together. If you presently have an HTML site you might
want to consider making a version of it in WML as a sidekick, thus
opening yourself up to a whole new audience; a mobile one.
After all, we're a society on the move... and you'd better
keep up!
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reading WebProNews. We hope you find this information useful.
Peter Thiruselvam
Editor
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