“If you’re developing mobile websites, you need to bear in mind the diverse range of viewport dimensions you will be designing for.

Something that looks good on the iPhone may look different on an Android enabled phone and completely different again on a Nokia smartphone running Symbian S60.

At the very least, keep your mark-up W3C standards compliant and don’t rely on emulators – they are not yet sufficiently sophisticated to accurately reproduce what the phones are displaying. Ideally you’ll need to have the hardware to test out your cross-platform site.”

Time has flown right past me so here is a double whammy of tips of the week.

September

“As many of you know, the words in H1 header tags are given weighting by search engine bots and contribute towards you ranking higher for those words.

If you think huge H1 fonts will make your web pages look ugly, you can use CSS to reduce their size. An example would be:
[STYLE TYPE="text/css"]
H1 {font-family: verdana,arial; font-size: 9pt; color:#ff4500}
[/STYLE] (replace [] with <>)”

Katie Harrod
Account Director

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“If you use several social networking websites, it can be time consuming to update your status on each one separately. I recommend using Ping.fm or HelloTxt which allow you to update your status on lots of social networking sites from one place.

Tools like Twitterfeed can be set-up to update your Twitter automatically with the titles of your blog posts, and, if you want to get clever, you can syndicate the blog post titles to multiple sites by setting Twitterfeed to feed through to Ping.fm or HelloTxt.”

Brezo Sanchez Ocana

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As many of you know from following Hannah’s posts, this year CJ attended and presented at the A4U Expo in Amsterdam. As well as being one of the attendees and ’stand hands’ I was also lucky enough to present a session with David Harding from Argos on a very topical subject – “Managing Success in a Downturn”. You can find a copy of the presentation here but I thought it would be helpful for those that didn’t attend if I provided a quick recap of it.

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