iPhone & iPod Touch Mobile Sites
By Shaun Zelber, Sunday 24 August 2008 :: General :: #125 :: rss
A few weeks ago I posted an article on how to develop .mobi compatible sites. This had a lots of feedback and was one of our most read articles. So I thought I would take a few minutes to give some more resources for iPhone ready sites.
I know that I posted an article recently by Simon Judge that questioned whether Apple and its ground shaking iPhone would be able to sell premium apps on their Apps store indefinitely. The same goes for iPhone optimized sites one could say.. is it worth with the small slice, though impressive, that Apple has to allocate time and resources to develop an iPhone specific site ? If you are already a wapmaster is it worth being an iPhonemaster ? Will you be able to sell access of content ? Display advertising or what ever your economic model is, if you have one... ? I don't have the answers to those pertinent questions.. nevertheless.. We will most likely debate more on this blog and many others.. really in the end it is the end users who will vote with their fingers (as opposed to thumbs on most mobiles.. lol). Anyway if you want to make a iPhone optimized site here are some resources and tutorials that will help you out.
If you are a Mac user there is the Apple web site generator iWeb part of the iLife suite that makes things exceptionally easy. In fact you can have a simple iPhone optimized site up and running within 40 minutes. You can even optimize an already existing web site created using iWeb. This includes optimized finger buttons.
For the vast majority who don't use Macs you can visit the Apple web site at their section called Web Apps.. that is what they call iPhone optimized sites :
I found some other resources with tutorials that are well done and explain in dev speak how to optimize or develop a purpose made iPhone site :
The first one is EngageInteractive which has done a step by step tutorial :
This one is good too and gives some tools to download :
If you have other resources, tutorials or blogs treating this subject please don't hesitate to send them to me and I will include them in the list at shaun@mobilopen.org
I know that I posted an article recently by Simon Judge that questioned whether Apple and its ground shaking iPhone would be able to sell premium apps on their Apps store indefinitely. The same goes for iPhone optimized sites one could say.. is it worth with the small slice, though impressive, that Apple has to allocate time and resources to develop an iPhone specific site ? If you are already a wapmaster is it worth being an iPhonemaster ? Will you be able to sell access of content ? Display advertising or what ever your economic model is, if you have one... ? I don't have the answers to those pertinent questions.. nevertheless.. We will most likely debate more on this blog and many others.. really in the end it is the end users who will vote with their fingers (as opposed to thumbs on most mobiles.. lol). Anyway if you want to make a iPhone optimized site here are some resources and tutorials that will help you out.
If you are a Mac user there is the Apple web site generator iWeb part of the iLife suite that makes things exceptionally easy. In fact you can have a simple iPhone optimized site up and running within 40 minutes. You can even optimize an already existing web site created using iWeb. This includes optimized finger buttons.
For the vast majority who don't use Macs you can visit the Apple web site at their section called Web Apps.. that is what they call iPhone optimized sites :
I found some other resources with tutorials that are well done and explain in dev speak how to optimize or develop a purpose made iPhone site :
The first one is EngageInteractive which has done a step by step tutorial :
This one is good too and gives some tools to download :
If you have other resources, tutorials or blogs treating this subject please don't hesitate to send them to me and I will include them in the list at shaun@mobilopen.org
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