Actually, they were beginner friendly in that they allowed someone to use a program with a minimum of experience. But smart programmers quickly learned to provide an alternative because menus drove experienced users nuts. With WAP we are back in the Stone Age. The good news is that you have the power of a modern server and much more sophisticated languages to help you. This means that in addition to providing an expert mode or letting the user enter a numerical command to skip directly to an operation, you can also build dynamic menus based on user profiles.
Users get the menus in a custom order to reflect what they are most likely to do.
Rick Cook has been writing about computers and high technology for more than 15 years. He is the author of seven science fiction and fantasy novels. The WAP Forum is the WAP trade group. Its site includes specifications on the WAP protocol and other useful information. W3Schools specializes in tutorials on all phases of Web development.