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!’

PHP Classes Package Now Available

Building your mobile friendly website is getting easier each day. We’ve already released plugins and components for a number of different applications – CakePHP, Joomla and WordPress to name a few. But what happens if you’re not running one of these apps but still need a mobile friendly website? If you don’t have the time [...]

IE6 Must Die, Mobile Browsers Must Live

IE6 Must Die is a trending topic on Twitter right now. The world is demanding that IE6 support is dropped, effectively forcing the hand of anyone still using the browser and hopefully freeing the internet from the hell that is substandard browser support.

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 [...]

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 [...]

How WordPress Developers can Mobilize their Plugins

As I mentioned in my article regarding the release of my mobile WordPress plugin, the results of my plugin on a standard install of WordPress are awesome and blogs look amazing on mobile web (as you can see from the screenshot). But because of the open source nature of WordPress, there are a whole load [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]