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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Mobile Payments Make Money (and sense) for Brands

The market for mobile payments has undergone extraordinary growth over the past 12 months and mobile analysts G+ expect this market to be worth a whopping $670 billion by 2015. Google Wallet, American Express Serve, Mastercard Paypass, Visa Wallet and Isis, a mobile payment based on the near-field communication platform, have all being launched to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Bing Maps with Wapple

If you’ve been keeping an eye on the list of chunks available in Wapple Canvas, you’ll have noticed a new one pop up today – the Bing Map Chunk. What we’ve done is integrate Bing Maps into Wapple Canvas and Wapple Architect, so you can easily create great looking maps, with plenty of options that [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]