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: [...]

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 [...]

Code, Don’t Transcode for Mobile Web

Transcoding web pages into mobile web pages does not work. There’s an ongoing debate on the subject of mobile web transcoding, so here’s our take. Let’s be clear on our language here though. Transcoding videos for mobiles is essential and very good, but doing it to your web output is bad. Really bad. A reliance [...]

IE6 Must Die, Mobile Browsers Must Live

IE6 Must Die is a trending topic on Twitter right now. The world is demanding that IE6 support is dropped, effectively forcing the hand of anyone still using the browser and hopefully freeing the internet from the hell that is substandard browser support.

Coding for Mobile Web – Automatically Adapting to Every Device and Browser

The mobile web is a great place for advertising, content, information, social experiences and fulfillment on the go. In fact, what better than the opportunity to connect with users through the device they carry around with them at all times? Trouble is, developing for mobile browsers is hard if you don’t choose the right tools [...]

WordPress Mobile Plugin Now Available

Following hot on the heels of my article about How I Mobilized WordPress, I’m pleased to report that version 1.0 of my mobile plugin is now available on wordpress.org! If you want to get it for yourself, head over to http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wapple-architect/, have a read of the documentation and activate it on your own blog!

How I Mobilized WordPress – the Technical Howto for Devs, Coders, Web Geeks and Wizards

So you’ve got your WordPress site running, you’ve installed a load of plugins to do fancy things and there’s a large subscriber base following your every post. However, without realising it, you’re giving a poor user experience to anyone reading your blog on their mobile phone. Have a read of “Why Millions of WordPress Bloggers [...]

Importance of Single Domains for Web and Mobile

Fact: People are accessing your website URL on their mobile phone! The latest stats suggest that 5% of traffic to websites now get hit by mobile browsers, even if you promote a separate URL for mobile web. What do you want them to see? The actual website that takes 20 minutes to load and scrolls [...]

Mobilizing Wapple Website

Last week something exciting happened inside the colourful walls of Wapple – the latest version of the mobile site was launched. Below are the obligatory before and after screenshots and at first glance you’ll probably notice that they look pretty similar. However, all is not as it seems because underneath the bonnet – everything has [...]