Why mobile web development is easier with a CMS (such as WordPress)
A CMS like WordPress makes the process of developing a mobile website much easier. Here’s how. Continue reading
Mobile web design
Responsive images – let WordPress do the hard work
At yesterday’s Multipack, I gave a presentation on a technique to use WordPress featured image functionality to send different sized image files to different devices – i.e. true responsive images. This technique uses three things: a plugin called mobble a … Continue reading
Work for Compass Design
We are expanding our team which means we need to recruit associates to work on client projects. If you’re a UK-based freelance web designer/developer or graphic designer, we’d love to hear from you. Find out more at http://compass-design.co.uk/workforus.
Mobile web design: responsive design, mobile site, native app or web app?
The number of solutions available to web designers and developers has grown considerably in recent years. A few years ago, if you wanted a mobile site, you basically had two options – a mobile only site, likely hosted on a … Continue reading
Chuck out the chintz: why some web design trends are bad for mobile development
Why we think a website’s speed and effectiveness are more important than whether it follows the latest web design trends. Continue reading
Making WordPress go mobile
A lot of people ask me about the different options there are available for making a WordPresss site mobile, and I’ve blogged about in in brief on this website. I’ve now had an article on this topic published by Opera, … Continue reading
CMSes go mobile – Harnessing WordPress for mobile development
On 3 March I spoke at a special standards.next event on mobile web development, about using CMSes such as WordPress to develop mobile sites. Here are my slides (if you’re viewing on an iOS device, click the image to view … Continue reading
Are you testing your website in the right browsers?
Today I was casually checking the stats for this website on google analytics when I thought it would be useful to look at the comparative figures for browsers people have used to visit the site recently and a year ago. … Continue reading
Making your WordPress site mobile – 4 ways to do it (and how to choose the best one)
More and more of us are browsing the web using our mobile phones, and more and more websites (now about 20% of the Internet) are powered by WordPress. So it makes sense to bring the two together. But if you … Continue reading
Birmingham girl geeks – talking about mobile web design
In case you missed it (it was all over twitter in its own modest way), a group of like-minded female geeks (including me) launched a new Birmingham-based group called brumgirlgeeks last week. We were lucky enough to get the inspirational … Continue reading