Mobile web drives customers to car purchases

Every week eBay sells more than 2,000 cars on mobile web as customers increasingly use their mobiles to buy a new car. This trend underscores why it is vital for all manufacturers, dealers and classified ad companies to have mobile-optimised websites. Some are more ahead of the curve than others. In its recent campaign for [...]

Google says 79% of its largest ad customers do not have a mobile-optimised site

Google has just conducted a study looking into the post-click experience for its biggest advertisers in mobile. Astonishingly, the company found that only 21% of these huge advertisers had a mobile-optimised web presence. That’s millions and millions of page views and ad spend without any respect for the mobile user. Google used 200 diagnostic points [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Podcast on Making money and mobilizing your wordpress blog

Last week I did a podcast with Brian Prows from MobileBeyond. We went through quite a bit – from how you can mobilize your WordPress blog with our mobile plugin to how in a future release of the plugin you’ll be able to place Mobile Adverts on your blog and make a bit of money [...]

Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin – version 2.0 released

Two weeks ago Automattic released a new version of WordPress (2.9). As it’s Christmas, we thought we’d enter into the spirit of things and release an updated version of the Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for WordPress as a present. We’ve listened to all of your feedback, ideas and suggestions – and as we’ve now got [...]

Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for WordPress – Version 1.5 Released

For the past couple of weeks I’ve been releasing updates to my wordpress plugin. A bug fix here, a new option there. You’ve got configurable menus, support for Cyrillic character sets and much, much more. But the backlog of new features has been growing and it needed a big update to clear the decks! So [...]

Why Joomla site authors need to Mobilize their Websites

Content Management Systems – it seems as though they are the in-vogue tool at the moment with every man and his dog developing one or using it to power their website. If you do a search in a well known popular search engine for “CMS” (and assuming you aren’t searching for the Church Mission Society), [...]

Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for WordPress – Version 1.4 Released

After a number of releases of the mobile plugin for WordPress, you’d think I’d want to put my feet up for a bit and have a well deserved rest and a cup of tea. But not a bit of it! I’ve been burning the midnight oil to get version 1.4 ready for release so that [...]

Showcase of Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for WordPress

Since its launch in June, the Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for WordPress has seen a huge amount of usage. So much so that it now deserves a showcase article discussing success stories so far about blogs that have installed the plugin. Hopefully your site is one of those featured, but if not, don’t despair because [...]