Podcast on Making money and mobilizing your wordpress blog

Last week I did a podcast with Brian Prows from MobileBeyond. We went through quite a bit – from how you can mobilize your WordPress blog with our mobile plugin to how in a future release of the plugin you’ll be able to place Mobile Adverts on your blog and make a bit of money [...]

Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for WordPress – Version 1.5 Released

For the past couple of weeks I’ve been releasing updates to my wordpress plugin. A bug fix here, a new option there. You’ve got configurable menus, support for Cyrillic character sets and much, much more. But the backlog of new features has been growing and it needed a big update to clear the decks! So [...]

Why Joomla site authors need to Mobilize their Websites

Content Management Systems – it seems as though they are the in-vogue tool at the moment with every man and his dog developing one or using it to power their website. If you do a search in a well known popular search engine for “CMS” (and assuming you aren’t searching for the Church Mission Society), [...]

REST assured – you don’t need SOAP

Overcoming the barriers of mobile web design and development – it’s the tagline of our blog and something that we strive towards each and every day. We’ve given the development community some amazing tools that allow you to create some fantastic mobile sites and we’ve created plugins, components and classes that help you at every [...]

Code, Don’t Transcode for Mobile Web

Transcoding web pages into mobile web pages does not work. There’s an ongoing debate on the subject of mobile web transcoding, so here’s our take. Let’s be clear on our language here though. Transcoding videos for mobiles is essential and very good, but doing it to your web output is bad. Really bad. A reliance [...]

Showcase of Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for WordPress

Since its launch in June, the Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for WordPress has seen a huge amount of usage. So much so that it now deserves a showcase article discussing success stories so far about blogs that have installed the plugin. Hopefully your site is one of those featured, but if not, don’t despair because [...]

Upwardly Mobile – Why Your Web Strategy Needs to Think Portable

For the last ten years I have heard someone, somewhere say ‘this is the year for mobile’. It’s become a standing joke in our industry. From SMS to WAP, it seems everything has been tried and failed. Well now it’s my turn and, at the risk of being laughed at, I am going to tell you ‘this is the year for mobile!’

Jakob Nielsen Catches the Mobile Web Wave

Thanks to Jakob Neilson, the world is suddenly waking up to the idea that to make the web useable on mobiles you have to make the web for mobiles. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/mobile-usability.html We’ve been saying this for years and I wonder what took Jakob so long to discover the mobile web anyway? Maybe he was on a [...]

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 [...]