Posted by: Søren
in This website on Jan 09, 2011
No one doubt the fact that mobile devices (especially smartphones) will play a dominating and leading role in consumer behavior in the coming years. An example. Every second sold mobile phone in Denmark is a smartphone. An online trend which the majority of the Danish media companies like Politiken, Berlingske Media, Børsen etc.have been making use of years ago. They have all optimized their websites for mobile devices, iPhone and recently iPad. And in a short while we will see not only iPhone apps, but also iPad apps coming out.
Personally I browse a lot of websites from my sofa on my iPhone and if possibly I try to bookmark every iPhone optimized site I find interesting. As it is today I have not found a ton of iPhone optimized websites. But it will change quickly according to the consumers mobile habits. Making your website look good on mobile platforms will be more important each day and in 2011 we will see a lot more mobile websites.
Posted by: Søren
in This website on May 29, 2010
You can it call it superficial and lazy. You can call it spot on and cool. I talk about my newest integration on www.ornholt.dk. I call it 50 tweets and it is all about what I tweet about. I spend a lot of time on Twitter and thought it would be cool to integrate my 50 latest tweets on my website. My tweets are of course not as long as a blog post - and not as descriptive - but can be as useful as an entire blog post (stripped down minimalism). I became a fan of making small updates instead of writing "long" blog post. The digital revolution with iPhone + 3G netiworks makes it possible to "connect" to the world in few seconds - and few words. Very convenient. I like!
Tweets, off course, cannot replace blog post in terms of length and content - but they can give you a short update - and it is fast to tweet it. So here goes the point: From now on I will tweet about "small things" - and write blog post about "big things". I also integrated the same feature on my iPhone website. Check it out here.
Posted by: Søren
in Websites on Oct 19, 2009
If you are running an iPhone or other mobile website and want to find out if the website is really mobile-friendly point your web browser to http://waxler.w3.org/mobileok/index.html.
W3C mobileOK Checker is a part of the The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) which is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards. W3C's mission is to lead the Web to its full potential. And now W3C realized the need for an mobile friendly web checker in order to make mobile websites even better. I tried out the mobile checker for my iPhone optimized website. I got a few errors (external link).
Posted by: Søren
in Technology on Aug 05, 2009
A rising interest in mobile browsing on iPhones has increased the demand for mobile optimized websites. From a business point of view there are many reasons to have an eye on this trend. The mobile generation consumer segment is rapidly rising in Europe. This trend is mainly driven by smartphones and especially Apple's iPhone (Source: Børsen). To meet this development a lot of companys need to get themselves an iPhone/mobile website - a least to make a buzz out of themselves.
Having developed my own iPhone optimized website I have been forced to take some controversial decisions. Can you force a internet browser to redirect him/her to another website automatically? Well. Depends on many things. After all I decided to give the user the opportunity to make the decision themselves - either to watch an website in an iPhone optimized version or in a full version. If you do not want to give the user this option, but just want to redirect an iPhone user directly. Well. Take a look on the scripts below:
Posted by: Søren
in CMS on Aug 03, 2009
During the last week I worked on a fresh new look for my website. Again. Being very much inspired by the lovely gray weather in Denmark the site is kept in gray/black/white colors with blue links on a white background. Less is more style I would call it. The frontpage is again showing a visual menu and the pictures works as menu links. Because of the many pictures on the frontpage I added a smooth preloader. Cool and functional I would say. Furthermore I implemented a Twitter plugin. When I Tweet my website automatically integrates these tweets. Sweet.
Moreover I added a small iPhone icon/link to my iPhone website. Usefull if you are browsing the internet on an iPhone. Check out right corner. My iPhone site is updated aswell. Visual changed are the same as ornholt.dk.
Posted by: Søren
in Websites on Apr 27, 2009
As I blogged about before I have created an iPhone optimized edition of ornholt.dk. I made this iPhone optimized website because I got myself an iPhone 3G 16 GB in spring 2009.
On my iPhone I surfed around on iPhone optimized websites and I thought I would create an edition of ornholt.dk in an iPhone optimized version.
