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Boston Restaurant Blog -- January, 2008
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Boston's Hidden Restaurants to Become Handheld-Friendly
It seems that with each passing year, more and more people are using handheld devices to surf the Internet. Whether it be a PDA or a cell phone, a lot of folks today are looking at Web sites on handhelds in addition to (or, in some cases, instead of) laptops and desktops.
There is a problem with this, however; many, if not most Web sites are set up to be viewed only on computer screens, and when these sites are accessed on handheld devices, the sites often look terrible on the tiny screens that these devices have. I have personally given up looking at several sites on my Palm TX for this very reason. And partly out of my frustration, the Boston's Hidden Restaurants site is slowly but surely being transformed into a site that can be viewed with relative ease on handhelds.
Many of our pages have already been converted, including one that I will give here as an example. If you look at our page on Addis Red Sea in the South End of Boston on a Palm or other handheld device, it will look more or less the same as if you were looking at the page on a computer. But much of the design has been stripped out as well as ads and other items, making the page a lot easier to read on a small screen.
Many of the pages that have been converted have been tested on a variety of devices, with all of them displaying the pages with little problem. Unfortunately, handheld devices are by no means standardized like desktop and laptop screen are, so there still may be issues with our site, depending on the device. If you have a handheld and our the page shown above is not displaying correctly, please contact us and let us know what kinds of problems are coming up. We will do our best to make sure our pages run smoothly on as many handheld devices as possible. Thank you!
Posted by MH, Boston's Hidden Restaurants, on January 29, 2008.
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