The Mobile Web is alive and well in Startup Land
dotMobi was at CrunchLudd last night and we got to talk to plenty of cool web startups from Dublin. I'm imagining there might have a similar event 12 years ago for print, media, graphic design and...
View ArticleA Very Modern Mobile Switching Algorithm - Part I
An important question that most web developers ask when developing their first mobile web site is "how do I distinguish between mobile users and desktop users?". Although this seems like a simple...
View ArticleA Very Modern Mobile Switching Algorithm - Part II
This article follows on from last month's Part I, where we discussed some of the principles of handling mobile users and switching their experiences. If you haven't read it yet please do so before we...
View ArticleAT&T Gateway address updates
Well our friends at AT&T are up to changes in the network again. Happily they were kind enough to send out a message with a heads up about new network addresses that are coming from devices on...
View ArticleThe dotMobi WordPress Mobile Pack
The dotMobi WordPress Mobile Pack is a complete toolkit from dotMobi to help mobilize your WordPress site and blog.It includes a mobile switcher to select themes based on the type of user that is...
View ArticleTesting Mobile Web Sites Using Firefox
Before you ever begin testing your mobile site to determine how it looks on handsets, you should make sure the functionality of the site is working as you expect. This is not always straightforward, as...
View ArticleMeet goMobi - A New Content Mobilization Platform
Here in dotMobi we've just launched our latest product. The culmination of months and months of hard work by the dotMobi team has resulted in the release of our spanking new content mobilization...
View ArticleFuture of the Mobile Web Whitepaper
We're very happy to publish this paper arising from the The Future of the Mobile Web event held at the Dublin Convention Centre in January 2012. We covered a lot of ground and the paper is a serious...
View ArticleIntroducing Prism, a tool for testing device adaptation
Due to the multifarious nature of the mobile web, developers tend to spend a lot of time testing their work. If your site is designed to adapt to multiple different devices this effort is multiplied...
View ArticleThe most common mistakes in smartphone sites according to Google
Google are paying ever more attention to the mobile market and so, developers pay attention when the Big G is making recommendations. Google recently published a document on the main mistakes people...
View ArticleBlogger mobile
Do you use Blogger? Need a mobile template? We recently had a request in our forums for a mobile template for Blogger, and a few searches later ('blogger mobile template' etc.) and I knew how to post...
View ArticleContent Delivery for Mobile Devices
In the past, delivering content to mobile devices has been a very tricky subject. Developers who came into the mobile world were usually confronted with a new and unknown paradigm, where very little...
View ArticleCalling all mobile marketing professionals!
I'm proud to announce that we have a new sibling!We're really pleased with how mobiForge has grown over the last year to become an independent authority for technical mobile professionals. And now...
View ArticleRWD: Responsible Web Design and how websites cope with compromised connectivity
Like most people, I use the internet a lot in the evenings when I have some downtime. Although I live in the centre of European capital city (Dublin) which ought to be fairly weIl served with cell...
View ArticleFaulty redirects, Google, and you
Google has, for some time now, recommended various guidelines that should be observed when redirecting visitors from a desktop site to a mobile site. One such recommendation is that visitors who...
View ArticleQR codes and mobile Web bringing publishing into the 21st century
There’s a common misconception that print publishing and mobile are unhappy bedfellows. But there is much more to this than print versus e-books. Forward-looking publisher, Atria Books is using...
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