Two approaches I would consider:

1) CSS. Using the media type of "handheld" to create an alternate
presentation format for PDAs. This has the great advantage of not
requiring you to maintain multiple code bases for the application
display. Just swap out the stylesheet and poof, the page reformats.
Unfortunately, the support for this isn't great, though you could
kludge something together with CF to force doing the same thing using
browser sniffing and dynamically feeding a stylesheet based on that.

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/media.html
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=HandheldStylesheets

2) Flash/Flash Lite. Abstracting the actual application into CFCs and
webservice interfaces, then building a Flash tool for the specific
application. This is a nice approach because in my opinion, HTML
interfaces on a handheld are sucky and this lets you have more control
over the user experience.

http://www.macromedia.com/mobile

Something to consider though when building data collection apps for
handheld devices is the reality of entering the data. It's
considerably more difficult and tedious to enter data via stylus than
it is with keyboard. And data entry errors are more likely. I tried a
simple thing to keep track of car information when I was car shopping,
and taking notes at the dealerships was enough of a pita that it
became easier to just scribble down the information on a paper notepad
there and then transcribe it to excel at home. Heck, look at the
high-tech version of shorthand that has come out of mobile phones with
SMS.

The two most successful data input interfaces on generic handhelds
that I've seen were 1) a predefined checkbox/radio-button type form
that was used at Disney to collect visitor feedback at the entrances.
And 2) a Compact Flash card bar code scanner.

Good luck,

-Kevin

On 11/10/05, Adkins, Randy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyone have a good resource on creating a website version for a PDA?
> I am designing an application for a client and they would like to have
> the
> capability to log on to a website and submit cost figures back to the
> corporate
> office while in the field.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> 

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