• Best Practices - Posted by Editor on 25 Apr 2013
• Usability on the mobile Web: best practices and guidelines for designers and developers
• In this era of technology, we are continuously interacting with things so it is vital that these interactions form positive experiences for us. This is true not only for objects or products we can physically touch, but equally so for intangibles such as websites.

• Best Practices - Posted by Veruska Anconitano on 17 Apr 2013
• The most common mistakes in smartphone sites according to Google
• Google are paying ever more attention to the mobile market and so, developers pay attention when the Big G is making recommendations. Google recently published a document on the main mistakes people make when working on mobile websites for smartphones. If you look through the list you can definitely recognize a cornerstone of Google's approach: focus on the end user. Or put another way, "adopt the approach you want but be aware of your audience".

• Best Practices - Posted by ronan on 05 Apr 2013
• Global reach and dynamic page weight – is there a correlation?
• Many reports on web page sizes issued in recent years point to the same conclusion: the web has a weight problem. The web seems to be gaining weight each year despite the fact that study after study has shown a strongly negative reaction from users to heavy web pages and resulting loading times.

• Best Practices - Posted by Veruska Anconitano on 21 Mar 2013
• Why Responsive Web Design is not always the best option for a mobile SEO strategy
• There are a lot of misconceptions about what Google is saying about mobile SEO. First and foremost, Google doesn't mandate the use of Responsive Web Design (RWD) as best practice for SEO. Google expressly says "Google does not favor any particular URL format as long as they are all accessible to both Googlebot and Googlebot-Mobile” the bots Google uses to crawl desktop and Smartphone specific content. And it’s worth noting here that Google is crawling desktop and mobile content separately.

• Best Practices - Posted by ronan on 12 Mar 2013
• Performance is money, part 1: the end-user's wallet
• Most web developers are familiar with the maxim that light is good: the idea that page performance matters to the end user experience is a truism at this point, backed up by a tremendous amount of real-world evidence, summarised quite nicely at websiteoptimization.com.

• Publishing - Posted by ronan on 01 Nov 2012
• Introducing Prism, a tool for testing device adaptation
• Due to the multifarious nature of the mobile web, developers tend to spend a lot of time testing their work. If your site is designed to adapt to multiple different devices this effort is multiplied because you need to ensure that your detection is working correctly across multiple devices and that your response is appropriate in each case.

• Design Patterns - Posted by ronan on 11 Apr 2012
• Anatomy of a mobile web experience: facebook.com
• This is the second article in a series about how the major internet brands deliver their mobile web experience. The previous article is available here: Anatomy of a mobile web experience: google.com

• Mobile Design - Posted by mclancy on 23 Feb 2012
• Future of the Mobile Web Whitepaper
• We're very happy to publish this paper arising from the The Future of the Mobile Web event held at the Dublin Convention Centre in January 2012. We covered a lot of ground and the paper is a serious attempt to capture all the topics covered from HTML5 to responsive design to device detection and many others. We found it to be a very worthwhile process to listen, validate our ideas and learn from others in the process of writing it. We hope it is useful to a wider readership also.

• Mobile Design - Posted by mclancy on 03 Feb 2012
• Future of the Mobile Web
• Last week we hosted an event loftily entitled "The Future of the Mobile Web" at the Dublin Convention Centre.

• - Posted by ronan on 11 Jan 2012
• Server-side device detection used by 82% of Alexa top 100 sites
• About 82% of the Alexa 100 top sites use some form of server-side device detection to serve content on their main website entry point. As you descend from the top 10 to the top 25 and top 100 sites the percentage of sites using server-side detection falls from 100% to 96% to 82%. This is an interesting fact given the all of the recent discussion in the blogosphere of responsive design using client-side techniques such as media queries.