is it okay to build website completely using only AMP?
what will happen to the desktop version of the site?
does the code will be converted to normal html tag when viewer view the normal web page?
Yes, you can build your website using only AMP. Essentially, you'll be using AMP as a framework. The company I work for has the entire site (minus 3 pages) done using AMP as a framework: https://www.craigattachments.com/.
Depending on the size of your site, a few considerations you might want to make...
Templating is your friend. Create an overall CSS file for universal styles, and then template oriented styles based on your different page layouts.
If you're using a universal header.php file that will apply to all pages, you can use some if statements to filter out unnecessary CSS to avoid hitting the CSS limitation set by AMP. This also works for AMP libraries you may be using on one page but not another.
For our implementation we run about 9 different CSS files that we include into the tag using a PHP include_once and filter in and out of the header using an if statement based on which page template is being used - our site is built on Wordpress.
Have a look at the AMP Start page. They have some responsive page examples there.
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I have just inherited a massive old HTML site that I want to track on Google analytics. It's nearly a 1000 pages of good old '90s html.
I've been running a web server for many years but am not a coder in any particular language although I do edit my PHP config files and my HTML files, install and configure modules in Mediawiki, phpBB and Drupal. I am currently on Svr2016, IIS10. For this HTML site, how would I include the Google tag (or any other tracking tag) in the header on every page served from my IIS console?
I need a pretty cut and paste or point and click solution.
Assuming you’re using IIS and have SSI enabled (SSI= server side include).
I would create an include file (server side include - could be .shtml) and paste the google analytics or tracking.
Then, I would find a file such as footer that’s used by all the other files and include it.
Or maybe put it other common files like navigation that’s used site-wide.
See sample use/issues.
https://serverfault.com/questions/244352/why-wont-ssi-work-in-iis
I've created a very simple ASP.NET 4.5 MVC4 web site which uses OpenLayers 2.12. It's got only one page that shows a map with a few points and lines on it. If I run it locally, it runs fine, but after publishing to my Azure Web Site, the OpenLayers' CSS files won't load. I have now added the OpenLayers CSS hard coded in my bundleConfig, and now it works fine. But of course, this is not what I want, because OpenLayers has specific CSS files for other platforms and browser versions etc.
Locally, I just have to include openlayers.js and OpenLayers then adds the right css files. Does anybody know why this doesn't work after publishing to Azure?
From the docs in openlayers.js:
Please remember that when your OpenLayers script is not named
"OpenLayers.js" you will have to make sure that the default theme is
loaded into the page by including an appropriate <link>-tag,
e.g.:
(code)
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/path/to/default/style.css" type="text/css">
(end code)
Because Azure changes the file names that are included, I indeed should be adding the reference to the default style myself. Also, I can just link to style.css, the other css files for e.g. IE6 or Mobile won't be uses automatically, these are just there for yourself to use it when appropriate.
Making a EXISTING CMS site compatible for mobile site NOT REDIRECT
Hi All.
I am currently creating a mobile version of an expression engine site that we use.
I am having problems with this, because typically I can just use media quires, or use redirect scripts.
However, the layout of the mobile site will be completely different from the desktop, so I can't just fiddle with a media quires for the CSS (as site just looks to different).
I was thinking of using a javascript to wipe the code or markup (php) if the device is mobile BUT it would mean perhaps loading two versions of code anytime a page loads up (not good for mobile). Eg one code for desktop and another for mobile.
I can't change the file names eg (mobile_index) because it is a CMS and the links wont link up correctly. I have tried this a few times , and also editing the .HTACCESS file, but it simply didnt work.
So if anyone knows how do I change the code of a page if the device mobile, but cant change file name, directory or any of that :-)
Cheers
Daragh
Why no redirect? If I was in your position, which I was a few months ago, I would handle this totally different:
Install Multiple Site Manager by ExpressionEngine: http://expressionengine.com/user_guide/cp/sites/index.html
Add another site -- mobile
Give it a proper domainname like m.domain.com
Give it its own template group
... and redirect with http://github.com/sebarmeli/JS-Redirection-Mobile-Site/
Now you can manage both installations from the same CMS and both installations can access existing channels, modules, extensions and members. This will keep your code fast and clean.
Adding a bunch of conditionals will only slow down installation.
Actually you could mess with media queries - it's the most flexible. JS is really overkill for something like this. At larger sizes, UL>LI menus could appear, and at smaller sizes they could be hidden (display:none) and swapped to select lists; divs can be replaced, elements dropped or resized. I also combine them with different snippets or embeds so you can tailor the content out as well.
You might try something like MX Mobile Device Detect. It gives you some variables that can detect if the user is on a mobile device that you could use in conditionals in your templates.
I know that Apple products like the iPad or the iPhone have trouble with flash apps.
What web development tools should I use in order to avoid compatibility issues when creating a website? My only constraint is that the languages must provide for interactivity and animation - such as in jQuery.
HTML, CSS, and PHP are a few that I can think of that will behave on 99% of all internet enabled devices.
What tools & languages are available to use when creating a website intended to be viewed on any device's internet "explorer"?
Should I just stick to HTML, CSS, & PHP? I want a certain level of interactivity so that, for example, a user can hover over images and have pop-ups containing data to appear... or when an object is clicked, an action can happen without a page reload.
Can someone point me in the right direction and help me develop a list of languages that are all-device friendly?
I am familiar with programming in several web-focused languages, I'm just wondering which ones to stay away from. Certain ones will limit the devices that can view the site and besides that constraint, the site needs to be interactive and animated.
HTML, CSS, PHP, JQUERY are truly your best bet for developing for a wide range of devices. If the scope of devices is the main goal I would stay away from using HTML5 and CSS3. You still may run into problems using much jquery with IE7 below. Mobile browsers on the other hand are much more advanced or up to date with standards then desktop browsers. I would suggest creating two versions of your application. One dedicated to running on mobile devices and one for desktop browsers. It is a shame apple wouldn't support flash applications. If all you need is hoovers for interaction you won't even need jquery / but for the other it will be useful.
The "Web" is a name for the concept of having interlinked documents accessible over the internet. Therefore, to have a website you really only need a document able to link to other documents, namely HTML.
HTML is not really a programming language or a tool though, it is a document format.
If you want to make a website you need use HTML to Markup what you're writing. Then you use CSS to format different sections of the document you marked up.
PHP though, is completely separate from this, PHP is for creating dynamic HTML, or any document on the server side.
If you want to achieve a flash-effect on a site you use Javascript to modify the page content (HTML) and appearance (CSS).
If you need to learn HTML/CSS I would highly recommend http://htmldog.com/
As per the question, HTML CSS and Javascript are pretty much the only mobile-browser compatible method for website content as they don't need plugins.
What exactly are you trying to do?
Basically I am currently doing some research, and I am interested to find out how I could render web pages without a browser: I have some algorithms that I would like to run to calculate the visual aspect of each blocks of DOM node(s) for each page.
What you're asking for basically, is a browser rendering engine, otherwise known as a layout engine... For example, Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine to render the pages. Theoretically, you could adopt this engine for whatever project you're working on, saving you a lot of time.
The Gecko engine is used in more projects than just Firefox, and since it's open source, you could easily get the source code and try to throw it in an application.
Wikipedia has a nice list of layout engines, so there are other alternatives to Gecko, like GtkHTML.
Basically, you want to create the data structures a browser internally creates so that it knows how to render the page.
Check out the Firefox source.
I suspect it's rather complex.