Demystifying Mobile Web Development

Toward the tail end of last year I read an article suggesting that there was no longer a need for mobile web specialists like ourselves here at Wapple as “…web developers can make one site work across multiple devices/platforms, including PC’s…” It further suggested that the populus will all be smartphone users shortly therefore rendering [...]

‘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 [...]

Google’s Motorola acquisition is a sea-change that will make waves….for Nokia

On Monday this week Nokia’s share price went up 7% in one day. Was this because of a new range of smartphones? Was it increased take-up of Windows Mobile 7? No, it was because Google announced it planned to acquire US handset maker Motorola for $12.5 (£7.7) billion. We have previously commented about the death [...]

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 [...]

404 pages on Canvas powered mobile sites

We’ve added a great new little feature into Wapple Canvas recently – the ability to design and create a page in your site, and assign it as a 404. So if someone hits your site but ends up on a URL they shouldn’t, you can now create a handy 404 page that might have links [...]

Got a lot of text? Paginate it!

Got a lot of text? Paginate it! If you want to split a text chunk over a number of pages, just include [/pagebreak] in the body of your text and pagination links will split the text over multiple pages. Simples. You can even control the text of the pagination links in the labels page of [...]

Upload many site graphics quickly in Canvas – just zip ‘em!

Uploading graphics to your site is pretty easy, but if you’ve got a lot to add then it can be quite time consuming. To make things a little easier we’ve added the ability to upload a zipped collection of images and have them automatically added you your site as individual site graphics. Just zip up [...]

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, [...]

Bing Search Near Me

Stuck for something to do when out and about? Or maybe you’re desperate for a pizza but don’t know where to get one? Well all these problems and more have been solved with the latest chunk to be added to Wapple Canvas. It’s called the Bing Search Near Me chunk and is an integration with [...]