When designing microsites optimized for iPhone users, you want to author a separate style sheet for your microsite specific content. This will reduce extraneous markup and speed page downloads. Read more »

Since the release of the first iPhone over a year ago, interest in this device continues to grow at a rapid pace.  Apple set a goal to sell 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008.  They are well on their way to achieving this.  It’s no surprise that Apple is now the world’s third largest Smartphone vendor.  As sales continue to climb, you should investigate the potential impact of this emerging market. Read more »

A new, patented service gives advertisers access to the rapidly expanding base of iPhone users, for linking traditional print, broadcast, and other “offline” advertising to an advertiser’s targeted online promotions and microsites, through a new iPhone interface developed by Internet Media.

A new, patented service gives advertisers access to the rapidly expanding base of iPhone users, for linking traditional print, broadcast, and other “offline” advertising to an advertiser’s targeted online promotions and microsites, through a new iPhone interface developed by Internet Media. Read more »

What I’m about to explain may seem obvious, but I’m not sure anyone fully understands the sort of tectonic and fundamental shift taking place in the tech sector with the development and fruition of the new smart phone as epitomized by Apple Inc.’s iPhone. Read more »

Most websites and web pages can be made 200% more usable for iPhone visitors in under 5 minutes using 1 line of code! While it’s possible to make the web sites more presentable on an iPhone in a variety of other ways, giving more information to the phone about how the webpage should be displayed in the browser will automatically create a more condensed view of your website for your customer.

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Last week a lot of revelations were made indicating that Apple had barred the Opera browser from the iPhone. Reports explained Apple blocked the browser company Opera from distributing a mobile version of its browser, Opera Mini, to iPhone users because it competes with Apple’s own Safari browser. It appeared to many Apple was again restricting useful applications from iPhone users—something it has been accused of doing in the past. Read more »

Ten years ago most small business owners didn’t have a website and probably didn’t see the need for one. Now, a business without a website is considered second rate at best. A website is a necessity for doing business in the 21st century - but how does your website appear on the screens of today’s most popular mobile devices? Read more »

It’s true that most of the iPhone doesn’t make use of alternate fonts — the applications, UI elements and your data all render in Helvetica.

However, microsites viewed in MobileSafari will render using whatever font is specified in a page’s markup. If your project is iPhone specific you no longer need to specify multiple fonts - though it’s good practice to do so. But keep in mind MobileSafari is limited to the fonts installed on the iPhone. Read more »

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The New York Times site posted a story about an article on Google’s apparent plans to roll out iPhone-specific web advertising. Read more »

The iPhone is transforming the Web as we know it and compelling every Web designer to consider handheld portable devices. Read more »

At iPhoneDevCamp we had the pleasure of meeting some of the folks from AdMob, a mobile advertising company with some great tools for iPhone website developers. The AdMob services allow iPhone microsite owners to monetize their iPhone traffic by serving highly interactive targeted ads to their visitors. Read more »