How and Why to Make Your Website Shine on Tablets
Does your website work well on tablets? If not, it's time to fix it. The good news is that it usually isn't difficult.
Topics: Mobile Web Design, Web Design
Blog Archive
Updates and Observations from the Webvanta Development Team
Reconsidering Motion in Web Page Elements
The top-of-page slideshow or carousel has become very common in modern web designs. These design elements allow that precious top-of-page real estate to contain more content, by adding the time dimension so the same spot can contain multiple items. They also introduce some motion into the page, which makes it seem more attractive. However, they have their downside.
Topics: Web Design
Best Wishes & Holiday Hours from Webvanta
To our customers and friends, we at Webvanta extend our best wishes for a joyous holiday season and prosperous new year.
Topics: Cloud CMS Hosting, Events
Webvanta is Growing: Two Developer Openings
Are you an outstanding developer with a passion for delivering great web and mobile experiences? Webvanta is growing, and we have two developer openings: one for a front-end developer, and another for a back-end developer with Ruby on Rails and server ops experience.
Topics: Cloud CMS Hosting
Optimizing Your Site for the iPad Mini and iPhone 5
In the past few months, Apple has rolled out an iPhone and an iPad with different screen sizes than previous devices. If you haven't yet paid attention to making your site mobile-optimized, the popularity of these new devices, along with many other options from Apple and in the Android world, make it that much more important for you to do so.
Topics: Mobile Web Design
Still Wondering if You Need a Mobile Site? Check Out This Data
Google recently conducted a survey of consumers that asked about their use of mobile websites. Here's some key results, along with new data on smartphone usage.
Topics: Mobile Web Design
Using a Single Database for a Mobile App and a Website
Often, a mobile app uses data that is also displayed on a website. For ease of administration, it's best to have all the information stored in one place and automatically made available wherever it is needed.
Topics: Example Sites, Mobile Web Design
Happy 5th Anniversary, iPhone
Anniversaries, such as last week's 5th anniversary of the introduction of the iPhone, provide a great excuse for retrospection.
Just five years ago, in the pre-iPhone era, the mobile phone world was a very different place. The iPhone triggered a massive, seismic shift in the mobile phone landscape, from carrier-controlled phones with lousy software and pathetic web capabilities to the smartphones we enjoy today.
Topics: Mobile Web Design
Optimizing Your Designs for Humans
In creating a great website or app, you have a diverse set of guidelines and considerations to deal with. Despite the wide variety of issues, opinions, and platforms, there is one underlying constant you can depend on (we hope): the user is a human being.
Topics: Web Design
Webvanta Platform Upgrade: Flexible URL Generation
In any system that uses database-driven pages, you need to pass database identifiers along with the URLs. We've recently added several new features to the Webvanta system to give you more control than ever before over how this is done.
Topics: Cloud CMS Hosting