I am always looking for new and different projects. I get bored fairly quickly, so repeating the same kind of work for a long time just isn’t for me. I am fortunate to have a steady stream of revenue by now, allowing me to spend time learning new skills. You know, I think I probably spent a third of my working time as a webmaster on some sort of a learning curve for something brand new!
Right now, I am looking into designing sites for iPhones.
As an iPhone surfer, I tend to come back to websites that recognize my iPhone and offer a design that’s easy to view and navigate. Give me large fonts, a fluid design that uses up the screen and lots of easy to press buttons and I will be coming back to that site in the future. Just check out the galleries on this CSS for iPhone website to see what I mean.
Of course, with iPhone, you can always have an application for your website. Many of the larger websites offer that. Wikipedia, hotels.com, Times magazine, and Google itself. Just a few names there. You go to the Apple App Store and download a free app for those services. Many of them make use of iPhone’s special features, such as the geo-locator, camera etc.
However, I am not looking for an app at this point. What I want to do is create iPhone friendly websites. Sites that will appeal to iPhone users so they will bookmark them and return at a later date too.
Here are some resources about web design for iPhone -
The WordPress WPtouch plug-in – I have a feeling I’ll end up using this one a lot!
I was actually thinking about SEO for iPhone. Admit it, it sounds cool. However, as far as I can tell, there is no special SEO for iPhone compatible websites. This would just be regular SEO for my target phrases.
I was actually surprised to see how little there is out there, in terms of resources for web design for iPhone. If you have any good resources to share, please leave me a comment – thank you!
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But — I think that Iphone serve web browsing as like in PC/Laptop. Therefore I always ask : “do we really need to design a web specially for Iphone (or cell phone)?
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I think it is different though. I much prefer to surf sites that are ready for iPhone, where I don’t have to stretch out the pages every time I open a new one, and where there are easy navigation buttons to use.
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Hi Anne,
Thanks for the resources! Someone just stopped by one of my High-Tech Science Blogs and commented that it looked like poo on his BlackBerry. Opps!!!
LOoOKs great on a 52 inch monitor though!
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Aren’t those plugins all we need to be cell ready?
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i use a blackberry i had a iphone but im too heavy handed and had to get rid of it. I have many sites that are not phone friendly but the amount of traffic i get from phones is minimal so this is something I am behind in developing. but there are many people who live on there phones , so I would say its a good thing
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