Designing and Developing for Mobile Web

Mobile Internet is a tricky platform to develop for unless you use the right tools and have the lowdown on what works and what doesn’t. As there are so many different devices out there in the worldwide marketplace any developer will meet a number of challenges. This mainly concern varying screen sizes, a number of [...]

ready.mobi – You Can’t Handle The Truth!

We received the following comment from Jeff Miller on the ‘removing scrollbars‘ article. “Your site doesnt even show up on any mobile phone, other than maybe an iphone. But doing a test on your site it show up very bad on other phones which most of the world use. it only scores a 3/5 on [...]

WordPress Mobile Plugin Install Guide and FAQ

As I needed to create a home page for my WordPress mobile plugin other than that at wordpress.org, I’ve created this post in order to fulfill both that need and provide a forum for people to comment and contribute. The text is taken straight from the readme file, so if you’ve arrived here rather than [...]

How I Mobilized WordPress – the Technical Howto for Devs, Coders, Web Geeks and Wizards

So you’ve got your WordPress site running, you’ve installed a load of plugins to do fancy things and there’s a large subscriber base following your every post. However, without realising it, you’re giving a poor user experience to anyone reading your blog on their mobile phone. Have a read of “Why Millions of WordPress Bloggers [...]

Mobilizing Wapple Website

Last week something exciting happened inside the colourful walls of Wapple – the latest version of the mobile site was launched. Below are the obligatory before and after screenshots and at first glance you’ll probably notice that they look pretty similar. However, all is not as it seems because underneath the bonnet – everything has [...]

Intro to Architect Mobile Web Development

For as long as I can remember, developing for mobile has been an absolute nightmare. To start with, there are thousands of unique handsets on thousands of operators with different browsers, firmware and capabilities. There are hundreds of different screensizes and resolutions to take care of, flash and java issues, CSS support (or lack of [...]