Web Work
Mobile Devices
Let us start with this consideration, dear reader, that some websites are not meant for mobile devices.
We can make a list: High-end graphic sites, many online applications, lots of video streaming applications; Attempting to push these things onto a smartphone or mobile device is fruitless.
So that leaves us with everything else, and everything else can work mobile.
Sometimes that means allowing for finger navigation and a good display on an iPhone, sometimes that means creating an entire seperate website that feeds from the same date. As a rule on how to approach mobile devices it is a good idea to have no rules about what will work and what will not.
No rules but judgement. What features are useful in a mobile situation? What funcationality is suited to being on the move.
As far back as 2001 when working on Estate Agent www.moveitmoveit.co.uk I proposed a system that allowed users to find house values from walk past For Sale signs, last year I worked on a gift buying service that used smartphone scanners linked to barcode.
The tools of mobile coding changed from specific languages to standardied XHTML, HTML5 and CSS the scope of what should be done with mobile devices changes too.
Possibilities increase, judgement is key lest resources are wasted creating unused applications.