Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for WordPress – Version 1.4 Released

After a number of releases of the mobile plugin for WordPress, you’d think I’d want to put my feet up for a bit and have a well deserved rest and a cup of tea. But not a bit of it! I’ve been burning the midnight oil to get version 1.4 ready for release so that [...]

O BBC, Where Art Thou?

Right now, I feel like the blind man telling my own future. If the BBC don’t start recognising my Android handset as a mobile browser again, I’ll go elsewhere. I’ve had enough of navigating their full website through my small screen and I want the mobile experience back.

Wapple Mobile Web Survey Wants YOUR Answers!

If you’ve ever been browsing on your mobile device and felt that most sites just weren’t good enough or that advertising was too intrusive, now is the time to let people know! On the other hand, if you can’t get enough of the mobile web and think it’s the best thing since sliced bread, here’s your opportunity to shout it from the rooftops…

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!’

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 [...]

Importance of Single Domains for Web and Mobile

Fact: People are accessing your website URL on their mobile phone! The latest stats suggest that 5% of traffic to websites now get hit by mobile browsers, even if you promote a separate URL for mobile web. What do you want them to see? The actual website that takes 20 minutes to load and scrolls [...]

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 [...]