Webpages/HTML for Cellphones

Factual Questions
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Using my wireless internet on my Sprint PCS service today, I came up with a few questions–

  1. How do you markup a website to correspond its links to various keypresses? For example, one website on my phone displays as:

LINKS

  1. Main Page
  2. Search
  3. Movies
    etc

Pressing 1 accesses the Main Page link, 2 the Search link, etc… how do you tell the page to tell the phone that 1 = that link?

  1. A whitepages site had a link to a phone number that, when I clicked on it, made my phone dial that number. It was an ordinary link. How do you tell the browser to tell the phone to dial a number?

  2. I would’ve viewed the source for both of these pages, but it appears that they are only accessible on cell phones. When I tried to go to them in my IE browser on my computer, I was redirected to the non-cellphone version page. How do you specify a page to be accessible on a cellphone only?

Also, are there “design standards” for writing webpages for cellphones? Note that I’m using a real minibrowser; not a text-only viewer.

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eh… answered two of my own questions:

  1. <A HREF="…" ACCESSKEY="#">…</A>
    Most of the links I saw like that also have TITLE="…" Is the TITLE attribute required for phones?

  2. <A HREF=“wtai://wp/mc;8005555555”>Make Call</A>

Still no clue on specifying that a page is for cell phones only, or any style guides though.

Thanks!

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      • I don’t know myself, but I have Adobe GoLive 6 (their website authoring/management software) and it includes some special thing to make web pages for cellphones. The “mobile device” web designer is a separate feature you can choose to install or not. I didn’t bother to install it so I have no idea what it does exactly, but there you go.
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