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Today's Topics:

  1.  Need feedback about "Tag Readers" and web    design/usability
      potential issues (J.A. Florian)
  2. Re:  Need feedback about "Tag Readers" and web
      design/usability potential issues (lrlaskey)


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Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:08:48 -0400
From: "J.A. Florian" <>
Subject: [FreeHelp] Need feedback about "Tag Readers" and web
    design/usability potential issues
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A business friend who has a Smart-Phone told me about tag readers.  A tag
reader is a small image embedded (I think) with a website address that any
webmaster can set up.  The cell phone owner just needs to download a tag
reader app.  When the tag reader image is placed on a website, a person with
a camera-and-Internet enabled phone can hover over the image with the phone,
tap the image, and be able to view the website on their cell phone through
the app.  With a cursory look at the topic, it seems like it might be a good
idea.  And it is free for webmasters to use.

Within discussions about monitor sizes, page/code design, page size, image
sizes used on websites, etc., I'm wondering if a tag reader would be an
asset or a detriment to put onto a genealogy/histoy website?  Do webpages
look on a cell phone app just like they look on the Internet, or would
webmasters first need to re-do their webpages (and, how)?  Would tag
readers reach more people interested in genealogy research?  Would an
on-site Google Seach Box be able to be used when a person views the website
through a tag reader app?  If not, how would the user find content?

Could someone list the major reasons that a tag reader would NOT be a good
idea to place on the kind of websites all of us create?

I don't own a cell phone and have rarely used a friend's phone (to make a
call), so please be detailed when talking about the cell phone side of this
question.

Judy


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Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:45:37 -0500
From: lrlaskey <>
Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] Need feedback about "Tag Readers" and web
    design/usability potential issues
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Judy,

I would like some answers, too. I have often wondered how our RW sites
behave on mobile. Having no mobile devices I have had to rely on online
mobile emulators.

My experience won't answer the significant questions posted by Judy but
will help understand the mobile situation, some what. I recently had to
opportunity to build a business website and one of the requirements was
that it display on mobile devices.

So my search started. Which ones? Which platforms, devices and sizes?
And, more are emerging into the market. Displaying a web page on mobile
meant that I had to make decisions. For instance, which screen size to
support, which devices, to the exclusion of others, and so on. Some
technologies are better supported than others.

There seems to be a lack of agreement on which mobile standard to
support, too. W3C supports one, over another. While that group supports
the opposite. And to make the job harder, not all mobile browsers behave
the same nor do they support the same styles or even recognize that a
page should access a mobile css sheet.

Mobile seems to be where desktop technology was several years ago, a mix
of new technologies with few standards. What I ended up doing was
choosing some of the more popular, more used, screen sizes and brands.
It is a mess just right now.

I look forward to someone answering Judy's question.

Lorrie



On 07/20/11 13:08, J.A. Florian wrote:
> A business friend who has a Smart-Phone told me about tag readers.  A tag
> reader is a small image embedded (I think) with a website address that any
> webmaster can set up.  The cell phone owner just needs to download a tag
> reader app.  When the tag reader image is placed on a website, a person with
> a camera-and-Internet enabled phone can hover over the image with the phone,
> tap the image, and be able to view the website on their cell phone through
> the app.  With a cursory look at the topic, it seems like it might be a good
> idea.  And it is free for webmasters to use.
>
> Within discussions about monitor sizes, page/code design, page size, image
> sizes used on websites, etc., I'm wondering if a tag reader would be an
> asset or a detriment to put onto a genealogy/histoy website?  Do webpages
> look on a cell phone app just like they look on the Internet, or would
> webmasters first need to re-do their webpages (and, how)?  Would tag
> readers reach more people interested in genealogy research?  Would an
> on-site Google Seach Box be able to be used when a person views the website
> through a tag reader app?  If not, how would the user find content?
>
> Could someone list the major reasons that a tag reader would NOT be a good
> idea to place on the kind of websites all of us create?
>
> I don't own a cell phone and have rarely used a friend's phone (to make a
> call), so please be detailed when talking about the cell phone side of this
> question.
>
> Judy
>
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