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9 Mar 2010 | 4 Comments
Give your site an iPhone bookmark icon

I recently configured my site for mobile consumption, by using the WordPress Mobile Edition plugin along with the Carrington Mobile 1.0.2 theme. I noticed when I bookmarked my site using the iPhone that the home screen icon as missing. Today I’m going to run through how to create and setup the home icon for your website.
Create the icon
You will need to produce an image in PNG format that:

Measures 57 x 57 pixels, with square corners the (if the image measures other than this size, …

3 Nov 2009 | 3 Comments
Key web development skills

API Knowledge
A key tool for any budding web developer is API knowledge. It’s good to familiarise yourself with a variety of application interfaces. I started out using the Twitter REST API with PHP and CURL when twitter first launched the API to basically get a users tweets, pretty simple now I look back, but at the time it was the first time i’d done such a thing. As the development of social media continues this will increasingly open up opportunities to develop more and more …

3 Jul 2009 | 10 Comments

I’ve been looking for a while at how to mimic the iPhone on / off switch with Jquery and stumbled across this post By Daniel LaBare over at elctech.com which is a great start to base an ajax tutorial on. In this tutorial I’ll purely be looking at making a simple ajax request using the functionality of the iPhone buttons to trigger a script to return a string based on whether the switch is on or off. You need to include the ‘jquery.iphone-switch.js’ file along …

13 Mar 2009 | One Comment

This is a useful script to re-direct Iphone and Ipod users to a specific page. You could use this if your getting a lot of mobile traffic and your current site isn’t optimised for it. Or for branching out and developing a mobile site for your visitors!
There’s a bad point to using this right?
Sure thing. As a developer you may find it logical to re-direct your users to a stripped down mobile version of your site, however there are times when they may not want …