In recent years, mobile devices have brought the web to new users and introduced many new device capabilities, screen sizes, input methods, and more. To help publishers and developers navigate this new space, the Google Developers team recently built
Web Fundamentals, a useful source for modern best practices aimed at web developers. We’ve also made it even easier to build multi-device experiences with the Beta release of the
Web Starter Kit.
Whether you are creating a mobile site yourself or hiring a developer to create one for you, this resource will offer you useful guidelines to get started.
Web Fundamentals' guidelines are intended to be
fundamental to the web platform: useful no matter which framework you choose or which browser your users run. The guidelines include a range of useful articles to help you build a site including articles focused on
responsive layouts,
forms,
touch, and
performance, just to name a few.
Inside Web Fundamentals you will find a
web starter kit - a lightweight kit to help you or a developer get started with creating your mobile-optimized site. This kit is highly useful and includes helpful tools, including a visual style guide, that you can implement on your site.
Keep in mind, this content is pretty technical and is geared more towards web developers. If you find the content to be too technical, we do offer a list of
recommended vendors that can help you build a mobile-optimized site.
Keep an eye on this space moving forward. We will be updating the Web Fundamental guidelines with more content and resources in the future.
Posted by Matt Salisbury, Multi-Screen Specialist
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This blog post was adapted from content originally posted on the The Chromium blog.
