New Website Suggestions Tool
Posted by Eric Stolz in Tips & Tricks
One of the contributors to the WP Mobile Detector project, Joshua Odmark, has built a website suggestions tool that provides suggestions for websites. There are many of these tools available on the Internet, but most just simply return statistics about your website. Things such as page size, keyword counts, header tag counts, header output, and [...]
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Oh Sencha, where did you go wrong?
Posted by Eric Stolz in jQuery, jQuery Mobile, Sencha Touch
The last time I remember not being able to find a suitable framework from which to build a website off of was around 2000. I find myself with that feeling again with mobile development. I have tried multiple libraries, each with their pros and cons. I recently decided to dive into Sencha touch to see [...]
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jQuery Performance Tips
Posted by Eric Stolz in jQuery
I just came across a great blog post linked from HN with 28 jQuery performance tips. There are a few tips from the blog post that we disagree with, but here are some of the best tips from the post: The fastest way to select an element in jQuery is by the element ID. The [...]
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jQuery & Mobile Web Development
Posted by Eric Stolz in jQuery Mobile, Mobile
Anytime we start a mobile project, we always look for ways to use jQuery. I don’t think I need to explain the awesomeness that is jQuery, but I wanted to write this blog post to discuss how we are using jQuery for mobile and offer up a few recommendations, even though their recent deletion of [...]
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Checkout WP Login – Our Latest WordPress Plugin
Posted by Eric Stolz in WordPress Tips
They say that necessity is the mother of invention and that is exactly the case with our latest plugin, the WP Login WordPress Plugin. It seemed that almost every project we worked on we needed to modify the login form for WordPress. One project it was simply changing the logo from the default WordPress logo [...]
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Timthumb.php Security Flaw – Patched in WP Mobile Detector 1.7 and Above
Posted by Eric Stolz in WordPress Tips
Thank you to a couple users of the WP Mobile Detector who brought a security hole to my attention. Recently a hack was found that exploited the Timthumb.php script. The WP Mobile Detector utilizes the Timthumb.php script, so it could potentially effect any blog running the WP Mobile Detector plugin. I am happy to announce [...]
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Mobile Detection
Posted by Eric Stolz in Mobile
A powerful mobile detection script has arrived! Websitez.com is proud to announce our own javascript based mobile detection script that works with any website. By including a snippet of javascript in your website, a visitor from a mobile device will be redirected to any mobile website you desire. This script uses the same detection available [...]
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jQuery Mobile Themes & Swatches
Posted by Eric Stolz in jQuery Mobile, Mobile Themes
JQM Includes 5 Themes As of JQM alpha release 4.1, there are 5 themes included with the library. Currently there is no ThemeRoller for JQM, so in order to create additional themes you have to edit the jQuery Mobile CSS. The easiest way to do this is to copy all the styling from the theme [...]
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jQuery Mobile Swipe Problem On Android
Posted by Eric Stolz in jQuery Mobile
After weeks of playing around with jQuery Mobile and Android, I was unable to get the swipe functionality to perform properly. There is always a delay on the swipe action before anything is actually triggered. I also tried the Sencha Touch library, which performed slightly better, but still not proper. This leads me to believe [...]
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WordPress Mobile SEO
Posted by Eric Stolz in Mobile SEO
Google just dropped a huge bit of information that is critically important for anyone interested in WordPress mobile SEO. Google views smart phones as desktop users. It considers feature phone users as the ‘true’ mobile users. This is important for many reasons, but the most important is the fact that Google is crawling the web [...]
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