Webmaster's Guide to the Wireless Internet part 4. The Webmaster’s Guide to the Wireless Internet provides the Wireless Webmaster with all of the tools necessary to build the next generation Internet. Packed with the essential information they need to design, develop, and secure robust, e-commerce enabled wireless Web sites. This book is written for advanced Webmasters who are experienced with conventional Web site design and are now faced with the challenge of creating sites that fit on the display of a Web enabled phone or PDA | 2 Chapter 1 Moving from the Web to Wireless Introduction The past century has brought about many changes in information and communications technology from the invention of the telephone and broadcast technologies to the invention of the personal computer and the changes have enabled us to exchange information with other individuals and to retrieve data from vast databases practically as a Webmaster are certainly familiar with these changes and have most likely played a role in developing some of the content accessible via the Internet and allowing users to connect with each other through time and space. The wireless Internet is a new revolution upon us one that will affect the world on a scale similar to that of the wired have seen it grow in Europe and Asia and North America appears to be the next frontier of this expansion. We now live in a world populated with various devices that are capable of exchanging information at unprecedented rates of speed measured on the scale of have mobile telephones pagers personal digital assistants PDAs and laptop computers all capable of being connected to the Internet. It is truly an exciting time to be alive. In this book we help you learn the tools and technologies to expand and adapt your current Internet offerings to the wireless Internet. As much as is possible we provide analogies to technologies that you will already be familiar with as a Webmaster for the traditional Internet. However you need to remember that you are dealing with a new space in which to exchange information with new constraints and methodologies to building a successful site and or application. In this chapter we provide a brief overview of wireless technology discussing some of the devices that are currently also cover in brief some of the similarities and differences between the wired and wireless Internet. We briefly discuss the concept of mobile versus fixed wireless and .
