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Posted in General ~ by Jordan Lyall ~
Evan Roberts at MarketingShift ponders:
When you first fire up the iPhone’s safari browser you get a few default bookmarks, two of which are Apple.com and Att’s My Account page. Now my question is why are these two site’s not iPhone ready?
The answer is simple: Apple designed the iPhone to browse the standard internet.
Now this isn’t news. We’re all well aware of the Apple’s iPhone sales shtick.
From Apple.com:
With its advanced Safari browser, iPhone lets you see web pages the way they were designed to be seen…
We know this device is the first of its kind.
We also know that Steve Jobs anticipated the hundreds of iPhone-focused applications.
But do you think he could have predicted Bank of America creating a version of their site for the iPhone? Do you think he saw himself browsing his Facebook friends, restarting his Media Temple server, or listening to an ESPN podcast straight from an iPhone optimized site?
He’s Steve Jobs. How could he have not?
So the questions still stands:
Why aren’t Apple.com and ATT.com iPhone ready?
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Posted in Business ~ by Jordan Lyall ~
Companies that want to maintain a position of great advancement need a comprehensive iPhone optimization strategy.
Imad Mouline of E-Commerce Times writes:
Web site owners need to optimize their sites for the iPhone so they deliver the same high-quality experiences that Mac and PC users enjoy.
Imad continues with seven tips for iPhone optimization:
First, the fact that a Web site works in a popular browser such as Internet Explorer or even Apple’s standard Safari browser is no guarantee that the site will work well on the iPhone. There’s even a chance the site won’t work at all. The iPhone’s browser is a special version of Safari just for the iPhone. It lacks, for example, support for Flash and Java, technologies heavily used on business Web sites.
Second, it has portrait and landscape modes offering two very different experiences of the same Web site. Third, iPhone users are often looking at less of a Web page than they would on a desktop computer — they will be doing a lot of zooming in and out. Fourth, the iPhone lacks the processing power of a desktop, meaning rich applications like those made in Ajax (which the iPhone does support) will challenge the device.
Fifth, users lack precision input control because their input tool is a finger, not a mouse. Sixth, the iPhone examines Web pages for carefully sized blocks that fill the screen when finger-tapped (that’s the zooming effect). Seventh, forms are tricky because they don’t always automatically summon the iPhone virtual keyboard.
Read the full post at MacNewsWorld.
Posted in Ecommerce, Development, Business ~ by Jordan Lyall ~
Though Works On iPhone can redesign your current site to make it iPhone-friendly, there are a few quick and (relatively) easy things to do to your on your own to make it more visually appealing on the iPhone.
From Craig Hockenberry at furbo.org:
Want to make your site look better on the iPhone with one line of HTML?
It’s easy—just add a
<meta>tag that lets the iPhone know how wide to display the initial page. I added the following code to the<head>in my template yesterday:<meta name=“viewport” content=“width=808″ />Every browser besides MobileSafari will ignore this information. But it does something very important on the iPhone: it optimizes the viewport for your content.
Posted in Development ~ by Jordan Lyall ~
iMedia Connection shares some tips on how to get your site onto the iPhone, and how to keep it there:
Posted in Business ~ by Jordan Lyall ~
We’re all about the iPhone. And we want to see more sites, blogs, and applications formatted for the device.
We’ve set up a two-tiered approach to meet this goal: a blog and a service.
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Posted in General ~ by Jordan Lyall ~
