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New Technology of Library and Information Service  2015, Vol. 31 Issue (2): 97-102    DOI: 10.11925/infotech.1003-3513.2015.02.14
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Using Responsive Web Design to Build a Library Mobile Portal ——Taking Yunnan University Library as an Example
Bi Jian, Liu Xiaoyan, Zhang Yu
Yunnan University Library, Kunming 650091, China
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Abstract  

[Objective] To solve the problem that library portals cannot automatically adapt to different devices such as the PC and mobile terminals. [Context] Except PC, access devices include smart phones and tablets with different resolutions and operating systems, that brings great challenges to library portal development. [Methods] Using responsive Web design to build Yunnan University Library mobile portal in Drupal platform, combined with HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript. [Results] Once developed, the site is able to automatically adapt to the normal use of the PC, tablets and smart phones. It plays well on the IE7+, Chrome5+ and Firefox3.6+, and automatically adapts to Apple, Samsung, Mi and other different mobile devices. [Conclusions] The official website with stable operation and low maintenance costs is popular, and has good scalability for future equipment.

Key wordsResponsive Web design      Drupal      Library      Mobile website     
Received: 18 August 2014      Published: 17 March 2015
:  G250.7  

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Bi Jian, Liu Xiaoyan, Zhang Yu. Using Responsive Web Design to Build a Library Mobile Portal ——Taking Yunnan University Library as an Example. New Technology of Library and Information Service, 2015, 31(2): 97-102.

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