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Learn how to build iPhone-optimized RSS readers with this tutorial from theappleblog. Jason Terhorst provides a well laid out explanation of the process as well as the completed source code used to complete the project. It looks like a great way to serve your RSS feeds to iPhone visitors, check it out here.
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Posted: Aug 23, 2008 | No Comment |
Nettutes has a great article up titled “Learn How To Develop for The iPhone” which outlines the basics of creating a basic iPhone framework. The code samples and psd make it very easy to create your first iPhone webpage. Read more »
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Posted: Aug 18, 2008 | 1 Comment |
Overlooked due to the recent launch of the App Store, the iPhone 2.0 software supports many new features well suited for iPhone web development. For example, microsites are now capable of increased native application integration, hardware-accelerated CSS animation, multi-touch gestures via JavaScript, offline AJAX-based data storage and many other capabilities. Read more »
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Posted: Aug 16, 2008 | No Comment |
Since the OS 2 software was “officially” released this weekend, we’ve been “experimenting” with “new” ways to interact with native applications which were not possible under the various 1.x versions. One is SMS, another is the App Store. Read more »
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Posted: Jul 14, 2008 | No Comment |
The OS 2.0 software on the iPhone now supports integration with the SMS application from MobileSafari, allowing users to send SMS messages to you simply by tapping a specially formatted hyperlink on your website. Read more »
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Posted: Jul 14, 2008 | 3 Comments |
This tutorial will outline a simple procedure used to display an “iPhone style” modal prompt whenever a user visits your site from an iPhone/iPod touch. For this example we will combine user agent detection with the JavaScript confirm() method to create a prompt which allows the user to select between your regular and iPhone-optimized versions of your website. Read more »
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Posted: Jun 27, 2008 | 4 Comments |
With the numbers of users visiting your website from an iPhone/iPod touch growing each day, opportunities to show these visitors targeted content are becoming increasingly valuable. The message can be as simple as a special offer shown only to these users, a customized welcome message or even a complete version of your website created especially for these visitors. This tutorial will outline a simple procedure to create a welcome message which will be displayed whenever a user visits your site from one of these devices. Read more »
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Posted: Jun 15, 2008 | No Comment |
To improve the experience of users visiting your website from an iPhone, it is necessary to evaluate how your content will display on these devices. This will allow you to identify areas in which your content can be optimized more effectively.
For example, increasing the font size and breaking content and navigation into more appropriately formatted blocks will increase usability. Read more »
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Posted: May 14, 2008 | No Comment |
While the iPhone packs a lot of resolution into its relatively small screen, the address bar consumes about 60 pixels of real estate by default when a page is loaded in MobileSafari. With either 320 or 480 pixels available to the viewport, 44 of which are reserved for the bottom toolbar, it’s necessary to maxamize every available pixel. Below, we will teach you two techniques you can use to hide the default address bar when the page loads, allowing you to reclaim this valuable space in your iPhone presentations. Read more »
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Posted: May 12, 2008 | No Comment |
Today we will demonstrate adding fixed style elements to your microsite using standard CSS properties. This is useful to display special offers or promotions you wish to remain constant as your users navigate your site. An example of a fixed style element is shown below. Read more »
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Posted: Apr 13, 2008 | No Comment |
For years developers struggled to present layouts with round corners, often populating nested tables with images to accomidate the page design across several different browsers. Today, this problem has been addressed using standard CSS and we are able to take advantage of these advantages to stylize content for our microsites - and we don’t even need to use images! Read more »
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Posted: Apr 12, 2008 | No Comment |
While considering audio solutions for a current microsite project we came across several items worth noting with regard to presenting audio to your users. In the following article we’ll explain how to interact with the iTunes wi-fi music store from your website, and show you how to get your (or your clients) music on iTunes. Read more »
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Posted: Apr 3, 2008 | No Comment |
Though not typically recommended, user agent detection can be useful for presentations formatted for the iPhone/iPod touch specifically. This PHP tutorial can be used to detect the user agent of the iPhone browser, allowing you to forward a visitor to the iPhone version of your website.
Below is the PHP: Read more »
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Posted: Apr 1, 2008 | 6 Comments |
When choosing how to identify the browser settings of users visiting your site, it is usually not advisable to use user agent detection, though you may want to consider this option if you are developing an iPhone/iPod touch specific microsite or web app which needs MobileSafari-specific capabilities. The following JavaScript will accomplish this task and forward your user to the iPhone specific version of your webiste. Read more »
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Posted: Apr 1, 2008 | 3 Comments |
Have you ever wondered how those shiny round icons on your iPhone were made? This tutorial will teach you how to design your very own springboard icons for use on any website. Then check our post on adding the icons to a page or site. Read more »
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Posted: Apr 1, 2008 | No Comment |
The iPhones click-to-call capabilities afford site visitors the ability to instantly dial phone numbers listed on your web page by pressing the number and hitting call. Adding click-to-call to a microsite is a fairly straightforward process and consists of formatting the link and specifying the device to target.
Once we’ve created a page we declare the href as follows: Read more »
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Posted: Apr 1, 2008 | No Comment |
The iPhone is capable of showing a custom icon of web pages the user has added to their home screen, however by default the image is a simple snap shot of the screen. Here’s how to make a custom icon that will show up in the iPhone’s springboard when a user adds your website. Read more »
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Posted: Apr 1, 2008 | No Comment |
