Should you develop for small screens or create a ‘Mobile Experience’?

Developing websites for multiple screens and adapting your designs for a “One size fits all” approach is the hot trend at the moment. Seminal books from Ethan Marcotte and Aaron Gustafson have kicked up a storm in the design and development world with people realising that they can style their site differently in order to make it fit [...]

‘K-Ching’! Mobile Web Training Program Webinar

Looking to create your own mobile website? Want the ability to create high class intelligent sites for yourself or your clients? Not sure where to begin? Need a little guidance to add more shine to your existing site? This is for you! We’ve created a fantastic 10 Session Webinar Training Program to aid you in [...]

WANTED! For crimes against mobile operating systems…

Today one of Wapple’s community members posted a link on our forums to this article and asked for thoughts on it.  The title of the article is “Who cares about anything except iOS and Android?”. Well, I care deeply and I imagine you do too. I care for EVERY mobile OS and ALL the many thousands [...]

New chunk from Wapple: Shops

Today sees the addition of an exciting new chunk to Wapple Canvas – the shop chunk. For anyone wanting to display a listing of their products, be it either a one off list, or a list of categories, or a list of items inside a category – it’s all now possible. You’ve got a load [...]

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 [...]

More dynamic rules..

As we’ve talked about previously, we have some awesome dynamic activation and suppression rules. They allow you to tailor chunks of functionality so they only appear on specific versions of a particular mobile operating system – and up to now, we only enabled it for the BlackBerry OS. We promised that there would be more, [...]

Integrating Wapple Architect and Wapple Canvas

Ever since we first created Wapple Architect, you could use it to integrate with Wapple Canvas features. In fact, loading a menu built with Canvas onto an Architect site was one of the first operations we ever performed with our fledging new mobile markup language. But as we’ve improved the Architect schema, one area of [...]

Location Based Services with Wapple Canvas

Wapple Canvas has just made it easier for you to find things on the mobile internet! Store locators, POI locators, Location Lookups – call them what you want – we’ve integrated them into Canvas so you can have location based services built into your mobile site.

Wapple Canvas Sitemap Chunk

Following hot on the heels of our efforts with URLs for Wapple Canvas powered mobile sites, we’ve created another chunk that should help you SEO your sites to the max. We’ve created a Sitemap chunk, which displays links to all pages on your site, alphabetically, with nice URLs (if you have it turned on).

Wapple Canvas Video Link Chunk

If you have a video uploaded to any of the likes of YouTube or Vimeo, we’ve written a new chunk for Wapple Canvas that will allow you to show it to the whole mobile world. It’s called the Video Link chunk – login in Canvas and add one to a page to see it in [...]