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This week was Demonstration Week for my web page tool. I had the opportunity to show a couple of people the web pages created by my mobile web page tool. It is important to remind everyone that the goal of this tool is to provide a easy to use web development editor that will create a single web page that will be readable on a PC sized monitor or a mobile display. Normally, a web page designed for a PC will shrink to microscopic size when viewed by browsers loaded on a cell phone.
See how it works!

I will give you a url that has a page (http://www.garymarrer.com/sabbatical/cis159.html) that was built by my mobile web page builder. Look at it first on the PC browser of your choice (IE, FireFox, Safari,Opera,etc.). Once you have viewed the page (note: it still has some edits I need to make), then go to http://www.operamini.com/demo/?url=http://www.garymarrer.com/sabbatical/cis159.html . This site is maintained by Opera to demonstrate their mobile browser. It is really a cell phone emulator running a browser program that can link to a URL on the web.

Compare the two browsers (PC and Opera cell phone browser). You will see that both documents are very readable. You can also connect to other web based cell phone browsers (http://mtld.mobi/emulator.php) to see even more cell phone browsers.

If you want to see what a web page that has not been setup for mobile display looks like, use the Opera mini browser and look at http://www.operamini.com/demo/?url=http://glory.gc.maricopa.edu/~gmarrer/ . See the difference? Notice how the page is squeezed into the display making it very difficult to see.

Try it out and let me know what you think. I think I have established that I can create a single page that is viewable on a PC or a mobile device.

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