Year over year reports of finger cramps are up five hundred percent in what doctors can only describe as "really scary". Researchers interviewing those afflicted by the dehabilitating illness identified unhealthy amounts of "pinching" and "zooming" to be the root cause. With deep concerns over a greater epidemic, Health Canada issued a stern warning to members of the web development community: Optimize your websites for mobile access or learn to love users with squinty eyes and claw hands.

The truth is most websites are not ready for the mobile visitors they already have. The past two years has seen tremendous growth in mobile internet usage in the Canadian and global marketplace. Smart phones are common and data plans are afford however the handset market remains fragmented with a large number of platforms and display sizes.

Learn a language agnostic approach to designing a mobile view for a desktop website including identifying requests from mobile browsers, reformatting content for mobile and best practices for designing mobile sites.

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John Boxall is the CTO of Mobify, a service for optimizing existing websites for mobile access. Once described as a "Genius, billionaire, playboy web developer" John's only regret that one part of his description wasn't true.

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