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 [...]

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…

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 [...]

The iPhone Debate Gets Even Hotter!

Konny Zsigo of the MDA recently posted an insightful article into the ‘to iPhone or not to iPhone debate. It seems to have attracted a lot of flames. Blimey! Time for Mobile Web Junkie to dive in… Read the  article. It’s great. If you’re trying to make money, dump your iPhone strategy Then the comments [...]

WordPress Mobile Plugin Version 1.2

Today marks another significant milestone in the evolution of the Wapple Architect mobile plugin for WordPress – version 1.2 has been released into the wild! There’s been some great feedback from version 1.1 as well as a whole load of suggestions and feature requests and I’ve tried to implement as many of them as I [...]

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 [...]

Step by Step Guide to Enhancing your WordPress Mobile Blog

You’ve installed my Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for WordPress and entered your Dev Key only to find that although your mobile blog looks great, it doesn’t look as awesome as some of the other blogs that are using the plugin. So what can you do about it? Luckily for you I’ve compiled a list of [...]

You Can Have Your Cake and Mobilize It

I mentioned in a previous post that I’d written an article on the cake bakery about how to mobilize an existing website or application by just downloading the code, signing up for a dev key and following the instructions. But whilst my plugin works perfectly, it’s missing a helper to actually build the WAPL for [...]

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 [...]