Companies use mobile services to provide staff access to their applications while away from the computer. This book is a guide, a complete practical to writing mobile websites and applications. You'll also see other methods for integrating your web application with mobile technology: sending and receiving MMS and SMS messages, accepting mobile payments, and working with voice calls to provide spoken interaction. This book illustrates every technique with practical examples, showing how to use this method of development in the real world. Along the way we show how an example pizza delivery business can use this method to open the mobile web. Do you want to give customers and users of your public website with new ways to access your services, or build applications so that staff can keep up to date, while on the road, this book will show you all you need to build a mobile presence strong. Technologies and tools covered in this book PHP, JavaScript, AJAX, XHTML Mobile Profile (XHTML MP), Wireless CSS, WAP 2.0, Tera WURFL, MyMobileWeb, Mobile Web Toolkit, Image Server, GAIA Image transcoder, HAWHAW, ready.mobi, Nokia Mobile Internet Toolkit, SMIL, Voxeo's Prophecy server, VoiceXML (VXML), grXML, Frost library, WALL, WURFL, SMS, MMS, mobile payment gateways, mobile widgets, Mobile AJAX, Android, Google Gears, and Dojo Offline. What you will learn from this book? Developing mobile-friendly front end to your site - learn XHTML Mobile Profile (XHTML MP) and Wireless CSS (WCSS), a subset of CSS are supported by mobile devices; complete target mobile browsers; adapt automatically with the ability to write interactive mobile applications - now and the mobile forms with different input types;. support navigation keypad; start with Ajax and Mobile JavaScript.Accept online payment via the mobile web and SMS using Paypal, SMS short codes, and more.Integrate your application with SMS and MMS messages - allows users to send SMS and MMS to your site , process them, and send SMS and MMS messages back to your users too; set up your own SMS gateway, or select an existing gateway providers, including slideshows, movies, and sounds.Handle voice calls - respond to voice input, create a touchtone service, play pre-recorded voice or use text-to-speech to provide software.Future based sound-proof your application - understand the basics of iPhone development, Android platform, and the implications of other developments in the mobile space. Approach The authors adopt the approach, quick practical to develop for the mobile web. This book focuses on solutions, pragmatic tips, and fast results rather than theory. Each chapter focuses on aspects of the company took delivery of pizza to the mobile web. This book also provides discussion and reference material to help you apply the techniques to your own project. Who is this book written for? This book is for web developers who want to provide mobile support for their applications. This book assumes some knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.