The Guardian is…Mobile Friendly

We put this site to our mobile friendly verses mobile lazy test: Name: The Guardian URL: http://guardian.co.uk/ Alexa Rank: 161 Wapple Mobile Friendly Score: 8/10 (how we calculated score) Load size: 82.5 kb Result: Mobile Friendly What we loved: Offers users of a variety of devices a great mobile experience maintaining publisher branding. Layout and [...]

Mobile advertising needs more forward mOcean

As previously mentioned in this blog, 79% of Google advertisers do not have a mobile-optimised site, a truly remarkable statistic. Throw into the mix the widely accepted fact that there is an 80% bounce rate on websites from mobile and it’s clear that many advertisers who do not optimise for mobile browsers are wasting their [...]

Are you Mobile Friendly or Mobile Lazy?

This week I questioned the validity of a number of recent statistics on how many mobile friendly websites existed. My own investigation, which I recently posted on mStrategy, revealed that there were far fewer mobile friendly websites than other researchers have reported. My conclusion is not that they have invented their data but that they [...]

Jakob Nielsen Catches the Second Mobile Friendly Wave…

We have long been proponents of sophisticated usability for the mobile web and for many 2011 has been the year where that usability experience finally seems to have hit the tipping point. We still think there is some way to go. Even our old friend Jakob Nielsen who we wrote about two years ago has [...]

Input image submit buttons

If you’ve ever tried to design a nice submit button for your mobile site, you’ll know what a pain it is. One option is to design it with CSS – add a border here, a background there, and you’ll get something that looks a little bit like a button. Take advantage of some CSS3 features [...]

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 [...]

Removing Problems with Scrollbars on Mobile Browsers

Scrollbars are a pain on web and they are even more of a pain on mobile. If you’ve ever had to develop a website that does anything imaginative with it’s width then you will have encountered the inclusive / exclusive discrepancy amongst browsers. For example, should your page length exceed the vertical size of a [...]

Coding for Mobile Web – Automatically Adapting to Every Device and Browser

The mobile web is a great place for advertising, content, information, social experiences and fulfillment on the go. In fact, what better than the opportunity to connect with users through the device they carry around with them at all times? Trouble is, developing for mobile browsers is hard if you don’t choose the right tools [...]