Blackrock Networks, Inc.

Category: Mobile

  • Mobile Websites: Separate or Responsive?

    Which one is for me?

    There are two main ways to create a mobile website. One is creating a responsive website design. The second and often deemed less expensive route is the separate mobile website often with m.domainname.com or domainname.mobi for the domain.

    Each style has pros and cons and the type you go with depends on your clientele and industry.

    Go Mobile or Be History

    Engage your customers with Click to Call, Maps, and Social Networking and more. Turn traffic into business with full mCommerce enabled sites. Take reservations, offer coupons or design your own custom forms.

    Click to View a Mobile Website Demo

    Responsive Web Design (RWD)

    Essentially this means a web site is crafted to use Cascading Style Sheets 3 media queries, fluid proportion-based grids that adapt the layout to the viewing environment. It includes the use of flexible images and content. As a result, users across a broad range of devices have access to a single source of content, laid out so as to be easy to read and navigate with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling.

    Click here for a Responsive Site Design Demo (use your cursor to change the size of your browser window

    Tablet

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    Phone

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    Separate Mobile Site

    Not ready to have your current site converted to a mobile site but want to go mobile we have the solution for you.

    Choose from a style below and get your mobile site up and running in just a few days. Incorporate your logo, colors, styles, and icon sets.

    Use icon sets from our stock photos or have one of our graphic designers create unique icon sets just for your business.

    Want more choice?

    Not quite sure if you want the basic templates above, but you are still not ready to overhaul your current site well we can help you there as well. Choose from a full range of premium templates or have one of our excellent graphic designers work with you to give you a great mobile design. It costs a little more to get you up and running but it might just be what you are looking for.

    Call 617.821.3446 or contact us today.

  • How to take a screen shot on an iPhone?

    Simultaneously hold down the Home and Sleep/Wake buttons, then release them together. You’ll hear the same  sound the iPhone makes when you use camera to take a photo.

    The snapshot will be in the Camera Roll album on the iPhone and in Saved Photos on the iPad.

    http://www.apple.com/itunes/inside-itunes/2010/04/how-to-grab-screenshots-on-iphone-ipad-and-ipod-touch.html

  • Separate mobile site versus responsive site

    Updated:

    Is responsive design really the way to go? Would you be better having a separate mobile website? Its all about return on investment.

    Although I love the idea of responsive design, and find it very rewarding when it all comes together I must say I agree with many of the things that Jakob has written in his post.

    The most important thing that has come up very little when people talk about separate versus responsive is about the cost involved. From a business perspectives, and lets face it is business’ that put most mobile sites online, that should be the first question.

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  • Google with Handwrite for Mobile and Tablet Search

    Getting started is easy: go to Google.com in your mobile browser, tap on “Settings” at the bottom of the screen and enable “Handwrite.” Note that after you’ve saved the setting, you may need to refresh the homepage to see the feature.

    http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/make-your-mark-on-google-with-handwrite.html