The last two weeks I’ve been working on an iPhone site, which means I’ve been doing much more HTML-work than usual. The site is so far only a demonstration, and we don’t yet know if the client wants it built for the public. I’ve never done anything for the iPhone before so it was interesting to learn more about it, what possibilities and restrictions there are.
Building a website for the iPhone isn’t too different from building a website to be viewed in a browser on a computer since you use HTML for them both. But there are some things you need to think about. Like what is gonna happen to the site when the user flips the phone, will the site adjust to the new width or look different in any other way? And apparently there are restrictions to what file-types you can download from a browser as well. (We wanted to make it possible to download a vCard with contact info to save to the contact list in the phone, but the iPhone won’t let you do that, even though you can save a vCard from your e-mail.) And all of the JavaScript I wanted to use didn’t work. There is one thing I really liked about working with an iPhone website though; there is only one browser in which you need to make the site work! Ok, you have Opera on the iPhone now, but it seems it won’t even render any other fonts than Helvetica, and for just the demonstration site, making it look good in Opera wasn’t important. (Opera is a great browser if your on a computer though!)
This week I’ve been working with a wordpress theme too. Which is great, I’ve learned so much about it in just two days that i now feel much more motivated to actually fix the theme for this blog. It’s just too bad I’m so shit at design, but I’ll try.