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 [...]

Argos is…Mobile Friendly

We put this site to our mobile friendly verses mobile lazy test: Name: Argos URL: http://argos.co.uk Alexa Rank: 1,410 Wapple Mobile Friendly Score: 7/10 (how we calculated score) Load size: 55.5 kb Result: Mobile Friendly What we loved: The site is optimised across a broad range of devices with consistent style. Simple navigation, good usability [...]

Wapple Mobile Scoring Sytem

Wapple Expert Opinion: (how we calculate the Mobile Friendly Score) 1/10: Presented the PC website – site breaks/crashes the mobile browser so nothing displays 2 or 3/10: Presented the PC website – site takes too long to load and/or has key elements that are not supported by many devices. Mobile consumer compelled to leave 4: [...]

Jakob Nielsen Catches the Second Mobile Friendly Wave…

We have long been proponents of sophisticated usability for the mobile web and for many 2011 has been the year where that usability experience finally seems to have hit the tipping point. We still think there is some way to go. Even our old friend Jakob Nielsen who we wrote about two years ago has [...]

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 [...]

Fully Internationalized WordPress Mobile Admin

Writing WordPress plugins so they’re available in every language is a big ask. Which is why it’s taken us a while to release the latest version of WordPress Mobile Admin (3.0) as this was the major focus for the release.

How HowToMakeMyBlog.com was mobilized

Just before Christmas, we mobilized HowToMakeMyBlog.com by installing and configuring the Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for WordPress. I’ve written a much more in-depth article over there about how we did it, but here’s a bite-sized version that you can cut out and put in your wallet:

WordPress Mobile Admin Plugin Version 2.0

Last month we published a new mobile plugin to the wordpress.org plugin repository called WordPress Mobile Admin. It won’t surprise you to hear that it does exactly what it says on the tin and mobilizes your WordPress control panel.

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 [...]