Mobile D!
One thing I love about the current line of smart phones like the iPhone, the HTC phones and Blackberrys is that it opens up a world of people to my blog and images.
Myself I keep up on all my blog reading on my iPhone, I’m not sure I could keep up with all the new blog posts from some of my favorite photographer if it wasn’t for my phone. But, this does bring up one pet peeve for me and that’s load time. I’m not sure about the rest of the smart phone offerings, but the iPhone has an annoying habit of giving up loading pictures if the site takes to long. There have been tons of time where a shooter posts about a wedding, I go to load it and only get about 25% of the images loaded.
Now I didn’t want anyone having to put up with that on my site, so I did a little research and found this cool little plug-in for WordPress that formats you website for mobile browsers make it load much faster. This doesn’t effect the site for people on computers, just those viewing on their phones.
If you run a blog and would like to look into this, I highly suggest you check out Brave New Code’s plugin called WPTouch. It is very easy to set up and customize, it even comes with a Photoshop template to make your own icons…How cool is that!
Tags: iPhone, Mobile, Photography