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 [...]

DEDICATED APPS ARE NOVELTIES, MOBILE WEBSITES ARE FOR LIFE

Do you think Argos would do as much online business if instead of running a website they required you to download a OS-dependent application to your desktop? Of course not. That’s because eddicated apps are a solitary novelty while a mobile website is all about evergreen functionality. In-store payment on mobiles is simply not here [...]

Mobile advertising hits the (massive) tipping point

These are heady days for advertising. Mobile ad network Mojiva has more than 100 milllion monthly unique users in the US and more than 400 million monthly unique users globally. It also represents 3,000 mobile web publishers and last week the company announced the closing of a $25 million Series C funding round. The news [...]

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 [...]

Canvas Campaign Groups

As part of our overhaul to Canvas reporting (more on that soon), we’ve created a new feature in Canvas called Campaign Groups. What it allows you to do, is create a group with a name, then place your campaigns into these groups. We’ve got some fancy new reports coming soon that will display your campaigns [...]

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 [...]

Tidy URLs for Wapple Canvas Powered Mobile Sites

Previously on Wapple Canvas powered mobile sites, URLs weren’t the prettiest or most SEO friendly they could be. Sure, you could insert text at the start of the URL and create a shortcode to identify your site, but essentially, everything was managed and displayed with pretty ugly looking variables. But that has all changed. We’ve [...]

Summer Styling

You might have noticed, but Wapple Canvas has had a makeover just in time for summer. Everything has had an update looks wise, we’ve improved some JavaScipt (new date picker, new colour picker) and we’ve even added a check on every page so if you’ve made changes, it’ll ask you if you want to navigate [...]