Archive for the “Development” category
How to Embed Videos on Mobile Websites
by Mike Mai on May 16, 2012
Are you feeling that your mobile website is too plain? Do you want to add some flair to it? Well, embedding videos would be one way to achieve that (assuming that your videos are awesome and engaging). Now let’s take a look at a few ways to embed videos on a mobile website. What follows will be pure techie talk. You’ve been warned.
How to Build a Mobile Website, Part 6: Hybrid Mobile Website
by Steffan Berelowitz on January 10, 2012
Hybrid Mobile Website
How to Build a Mobile Website, Part 5: Responsive Design
by Steffan Berelowitz on January 5, 2012
Responsive Design
In Brief
The Rolls Royce of mobile websites, these things will polish your shoes in the morning and serve you tea! It comes with a price — some responsive design could cost about as much as a small country and will take 9 months to a year to develop. In some cases, you have to rebuild the desktop website from scratch to fit this responsive technique.
How to Build a Mobile Website, Part 4: Mobile Website Templates
by Steffan Berelowitz on January 3, 2012
Mobile Website Templates
How to Build a Mobile Website, Part 3: Transcoding
by Steffan Berelowitz on December 29, 2011
Transcoding
In Brief
If you really liked aluminum siding in the 1970′s then this is for you! You get to put a mobile facade on your otherwise non-mobile friendly website. The only problem is that if you make any structural changes to your house, you may break your facade and have to reapply the siding. This means that if you make any structural changes to your website, your mobile website may break.
How to Build a Mobile Website, Part 2: Mobile Template/Plugin from Desktop CMS
by Steffan Berelowitz on December 27, 2011
Mobile Templates/Plugins from Desktop CMS
In Brief
Perfect for a personal blog, but for mobile marketing website? Not so hot. Mobile templates/plugins are a poor choice for a marketing website, but a good choice for a simple blog website in which you want to display the exact same content and comments for all users.
How to Build a Mobile Website, Part 1: Custom Built Mobile Platform
by Steffan Berelowitz on December 23, 2011
Custom Built Mobile Platform
In Brief
Jay Leno can afford to build a complete custom car, but for the rest of us, it makes sense to buy from a manufacturer regardless of whether we want a Cadillac or Kia. Building a custom mobile platform is a poor choice for a marketing website, a good choice for a highly complex product or web brand with a lot of resources.
How Does My Website Perform On Mobile?
by Griffin Mahoney on December 13, 2011
Introducing MobileGrader.com
Mobile Grader by Bluetrain Mobile enables you to see how your website performs on a mobile device. How long does it take for your visitors to see your website on a smartphone? Are you using minified (optimized) code that makes it possible for a mobile browser to show your website quickly? The Mobile Grader will quickly evaluate these and other criteria and then compare your website to our benchmark that we call the Mobile 100 (a list of well-known mobile websites).
Mobile Web Design Case Study: What We Like About Northeastern College of Business Administration
by Andy Komack on September 13, 2011
In our last profile of “What We Like About…” a specific Bluetrain Mobile customer’s mobile website, we highlighted Retail Systems Research. This time we’re going to take a closer look at “What We Like About” the Northeastern College of Business Administration mobile website that we created and host. You can view their mobile version & traditional website, and if you are visiting the traditional site from an iPhone smartphone, you will automatically be directed to the mobile version. (Android and all other major smartphone operating systems coming shortly!).
Choosing Fonts for Your Mobile Website
by Mike Mai on May 17, 2011
So you are building your first mobile website for your business and you have a kick-ass design from your designer. You are ready to go build out this thing but there’s one slight problem—your designer used some fancy schmancy non-web-safe fonts throughout the whole design. By slight problem, I actually meant the worst nightmare for developers. How do you prevent this from happening? You should first educate your designer on choosing fonts compatible for the mobile web.
