Category: Mobile
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PWAs: Easy! Unless…
We’ve had a third party building and managing our native apps for several years and they’re doing a terrible job. We wanted to get rid of them, but weren’t ready to part with the app experience, which is important to our most committed mobile users. We came up with two alternative solutions: build our own…
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Making a Custom Icon Font for Your Website
Reducing server calls for image resources will speed up your page load and enhance performance. A great way to do this is to replace sprited icons with mobile-friendly custom fonts.
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Lose My Number
iOS has a handy built in feature: automatically sensing phone numbers and making them active links. When you touch them you get a dialog to make a call to that number. Unfortunately this can cause problem with your layout and your pages.
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The Gummy Worms of the Mobile Website
The mobile website I built Office Depot received a perfect score from Keynote Systems, but that doesn’t mean it’s perfect. There is always room for improvement. When it comes to peak performance even small gains can make a big difference. What’s wrong with this picture? At first glance it seems okay. The site checks in…
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Office Depot’s Mobile Website Gets a Perfect Score
A recent article by Internet Retailer states that the Office Depot m-commerce website “exhibits spectacular performance”, citing our first-place ranking in Keynote Systems’ weekly rankings, in which the Office Depot mobile website achieved a perfect score of 1000. There are two main components in this performance rating: uptime and page load speed. The uptime is the…
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Office Depot Mobile Site Launches
Office Depot’s in-house m-Commerce site blows away the legacy vendor-developed site with its clean, branded design, speed improvements and robust feature set. Putting the user first kept us focused on ease of use and speed. Overview: With 8.5% of 2011 internet traffic coming from mobile devices and trending upward, mobile is an important channel for online…