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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Wapple’s Dynamic Activation and Suppression Rules

Ever since Wapple Canvas was created, there have been rules. Rules to check if videos are supported, rules to check for active campaigns, rules to check for specific screen sizes. Of course we have hundreds of others, but something missing from all of them was the ability to have customizable rules to specify your own [...]

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).