At the Web Camp event in Dubai, Ronald Widha presented a session on creating cutting edge websites for phones, slates.  It was a well designed and thought out topic, and very inspirational from a designer viewpoint.  You can watch the video and also read more about high adoption of the Windows Phone 7 platform.

Creating Cutting Edge Website for Phone, Slate and Beyond from Ronald Widha on Vimeo.

A summary of the session “The process of creating a website now always start with a question on figuring out the devices you want to support for; PCs, mobile phones and/or slate devices. Each of these devices may have different screen sizes, capabilities etc. For simplicity, designer/developer often chooses to build dedicated websites for each one of the platform which often leads to maintenance nightmare.
This talk showed how to design and develop a dynamic website for the various platforms using Responsive Design techniques. We're starting up the process with WebMatrix and transitioning to Visual Studio 2010 as we progress. We touched on Html5, CSS3, Razor, Entity Framework 4 and C#.”

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We are running the First 30 Fast Start program in a variety of different countries.  The first WebsiteSpark members who deploy a Windows Server 2008 site will win – each country has slightly different terms and conditions so please review them carefully.  The steps are super easy. All you have to do is report the URL you created!

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Tech Ed Middle East. March 8, 2011. During Tech Ed Middle East I had the opportunity to present Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate to developers and designers in the Middle East, and shared examples of HTML5 adoption by our partners in the Middle East.

We also announced the IE9 developer contest.  Submit your app now!

Don’t forget to join the WebSiteSpark Middle East & Africa Facebook group for more announcements!

You can download the content from my skydrive folder. Enjoy!