JQuery Mobile

It's been a long time since HTML was the king of the castle where web design and development was concerned. While HTML still provides the latticework on which design fundamentals are built and CSS allows developers to more easily style these basic elements in interesting ways, web design has increasingly come to rely on JavaScript for the stylish and high end functions users expect from their web sites and apps. The options for interactivity increase dramatically when you implement JavaScript in your app, and jQuery offers one of the most popular, versatile, and well respected JavaScript libraries around. jQuery Mobile draws from these fundamentals to create a tool kit that's explicitly designed for users who will be accessing your app on mobile phones, thus minimizing the need for complex scripts that will facilitate responsive design. It's estimated that over half of the websites in the world make use of jQuery, and there's a good reason for that. jQuery does an exceptional job of creating interactive elements that work well on practically any browser, and jQuery Mobile adapts this specifically to the needs of mobile developers. This framework is device agnostic and comes with dozens of different themes you can use to quickly mock up an app project and know that it will provide a consistent look and level of interactivity regardless of how your users are accessing it. If you're looking to put together a site that will reach the larger audience possible, jQuery Mobile is perhaps the best framework to use, but keep in mind that it's been stripped down significantly from the features one can expect to find in the more standard version of jQuery. You can expect the JavaScript functions you'll find here to work as a complement to your HTML and CSS, and you'll be missing out on some of the bells and whistles you'd expect to find with a more robust deployment in jQuery. Those themes make up a core component of the jQuery Mobile experience, and they reflect the framework's core notion of "write less, do more". The huge number of themes available are simple to implement into your site, reducing much of the pain of design, but they're also very flexible. You'll have a lot of customization options when it comes to putting together a site template that matches your personal or corporate branding. And since it's built off of such a popular language and framework, most developers with any web experience can jump right in with little or no learning curves to worry about. ThemeRoller serves as a critical component of jQuery mobile and allows you to quickly and simply alter themes before plugging them directly into your site's code. You can also use the download builder to create a package of components that only include what you need for your site.