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 [...]

Mobile Web: “Is there anybody out there”?

Those of you old enough to appreciate when an album was a body of work rather than simply a collection of songs built around formulaic hooks to increase iTunes downloads have probably, at some point, listened to and appreciated Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’. A tale of descent into madness, the collapse of self and ultimately [...]

Automatic for the People

Interviewed and published by Mobile Marketing Magazine on 28th November 2011. David Murphy interviews Wapple COO Anne Thomas. DM: So Anne, give us the 2-minute guide to Wapple if you would please? AT: Sure. We started out in late 2002, Rich (Holdsworth, CEO) and myself. It was an opportune moment. Rich had a contact in [...]

Vote WAPPLE for Mashable Awards 2011

It’s been a fantastic 12 months for Wapple so we nominated ourselves as Digital Company of the Year at this year’s Mashable Awards and we would love it, really love it, if you could vote for us. In 2011 we teamed up with Google to mobilise advertisers for the GoMo initiative, our award-winning mobile web [...]

Architect sees total requests surpass 1 BILLION

They say you should celebrate your successes and for Wapple this week has certainly seen it’s fair share, including our award winning technology ARCHITECT surpassing its billionth use; this means; requests made on Architect (by Exhibit) to serve mobile-friendly mark up (html5, html, xhtml, chtml, wml) perfectly and appropriately to mobile browsers from existing web [...]

Location Based Services with Wapple Canvas

Wapple Canvas has just made it easier for you to find things on the mobile internet! Store locators, POI locators, Location Lookups – call them what you want – we’ve integrated them into Canvas so you can have location based services built into your mobile site.

Wapple Canvas Sitemap Chunk

Following hot on the heels of our efforts with URLs for Wapple Canvas powered mobile sites, we’ve created another chunk that should help you SEO your sites to the max. We’ve created a Sitemap chunk, which displays links to all pages on your site, alphabetically, with nice URLs (if you have it turned on).

New features in Wapple Canvas

We’ve been busy recently and have added a ton of new features into Wapple Canvas. Some are updates to existing functionality, some are completely new. All of them are exciting and greatly improve your mobile browsing experience!

Questionnaire & Quiz Chunks for Canvas

What would be a great addition to Wapple Canvas? Reporting for Quizzes A new chunk – Questionnaires, that allows question grouping and question numbering Integration for both with Wapple forms so you get an optimized user experience. All of the above The form above is fake. But luckily for you, the correct answer is “All [...]

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 [...]