Category Archives: Mobile Web Development

iPhone Only Web Sites Are Bad Business

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Houston TV channel KRIV recently launched FoxRad.mobi. It’s a standalone mobile weather site that isn’t linked to the channel’s  main mobile news (including weather) site at wap.myfoxhouston.com. FoxRad provides very comprehensive weather information for Houston area residents with national, regional and local forecasts and radar maps.  At the local level FoxRad.mobi provides a separate forecast page and radar map for each of the 18 counties making up metro Houston.  It’s a great resource for anyone who needs detailed, timely weather … Continue reading →

Relief For iPhone Toting Bashful Bladder Sufferers

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EEZi-Pee (www.EEZi-Pee.co.uk), is a mobile Website designed to help those suffering from paruresis or  bashful bladder, a phobia that manifests itself as difficulty in urinating, particularly in the presence of others such as in public restrooms. It lets the paruresis sufferer listen (hopefully using headphones in public) to a variety of running water sounds on their phone in times of need. While it would be easy to joke about the condition and this app, paruresis is actually fairly common (one … Continue reading →

Why Do Mobile Web Designers Ignore Opera Mini?

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There’s a lot of buzz these days about how “touch web” browsers, especially the iPhone’s Safari, but also the WebKit based browsers on Android, Palm WebOS  and recent Symbian devices are  revolutionizing mobile browsing.  It’s certainly true, especially in the US and other developed countries, that advanced smartphones with powerful “full-web” browsers have opened a lot of eyes to the fact that using the Web on mobile phones is not only practical but fun and useful. But not everyone can … Continue reading →

A Mobile Friendly PageRank Finder

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I know that a lot of webmasters obsess over their site’s Google PageRank. It’s one of Google’s measures (on a scale of 0 to 10) of a site’s value. A higher PageRank is supposed to correlate with  high placements in search results and thus potentially greater ad revenue. Google seems to be devaluing PageRank of late, removing it from Webmaster Tools and publicly stating that it is only one of 200 signals that they use to rank sites and claiming … Continue reading →

Coders.mobi – A Blog for Mobile Web Developers

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There is a new blog aimed specifically at mobile web developers. It’s Coders.mobi and offers tutorials, tips and tricks, code snippets and mobile site and toolkit reviews. I think that there is a real need for a site like this. Mobile web development is a subset of web development in general but it isn’t currently given much coverage by the big web development sites like Webdesigner’s Depot and SitePoint. Coders is new and doesn’t have a huge amount of content … Continue reading →

New Release of Mobile Design Tool, Mobify

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Yesterday, Mobify released Version 2 of their cloud based visual tool for creating mobile views of existing Web sites. Mobify is aimed squarely at Web designers. Using it, a designer “Mobifies” an existing desktop site by selecting elements using a a browser based, visual interface. The selected dynamic elements are then laid out on a mobile canvas where headers, footers and static HTML blocks can be added and the  CSS styling  can be tweaked. Finished “Mobile Views”, as Mobify calls … Continue reading →

Site Hacked? Check Your AdSense Publisher ID And 3rd Party Scripts

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Sometime Saturday night Wapreview.com was hacked. The hackers didn’t do much damage.  Their goal was apparently financial gain rather than wanton destruction.  All that was changed was the  publisher ID in the JavaScript code for the AdSense block in the sidebar.  This meant that ad impressions and clicks were credited to someone else’s account instead of mine.  Ads continued to run and I probably would never have discovered it except for one thing.  Sunday evening I noticed that the ad’s … Continue reading →

Updated: All WordPress.com Blogs Are Now Mobile Friendly.

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Images – WordPress.com Updated: Issues using WordPress.com with Symbian phones fixed. Wow! Automattic, the folks behind WordPress, finally fixed something I’ve been complaining about for years.  All 4.5 million WordPress.com blogs are now mobile friendly. Just to be clear there are two distinct products called “WordPress“.  WordPress.org, which is what WapReview.com runs on, is free open source software that anyone can download and install on a web server.   You can do anything with it including modifying the code or installing … Continue reading →