HOW TO: Optimize Your Mobile Site Across Multiple Platforms

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One of the most difficult aspects of designing for the mobile web is making your site compatible and accessible across different devices. A mobile-optimized site might look great on your iPhone or Android () device, but utterly fall apart on Symbian or BlackBerry handsets. Likewise, a simple WAP-enabled site might be fine for feature phones, but fall short of expectations when it comes to newer and more advanced devices.
We’ve covered some of the ways to streamline the process of creating your mobile-optimized site in the past. Today, we want to take a look at some specific tips and tricks for testing and adding compatibility for different types of devices.

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1. Narrow Your Focus

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It’s natural to want to make your site look absolutely perfect on every possible device that could access your mobile site. However, this just isn’t practical for the vast majority of developers and designers.
Instead of trying to support every platform out there, set out some goals for your site and your potential customers. For instance, if you know that most of your users are going to be using an iPhone, focus on making an iPhone-enhanced version of your site first.

Lowercase p, dangit!

By Justin Tadlock on July 8, 2010

If you haven’t been following the latest hot debate in the WordPress community, you’re in for some news. If you have been following it, you’re probably in a fiery rage, given up all hope in the “community” aspect of this community project, or are just sitting back laughing at the rest of us.
The issue: Before WordPress 3.0 was released, a small piece of code was added to the WordPress core that changes all instances of “Wordpress” (notice the lowercase “p”) to “WordPress” in areas where content is shown on the site. We’ll get to the details in a bit.
I tried hard to stay out this debate because I’m fairly certain I made a vow to myself to stay out of these types of arguments. But, I’ve got a few opinions on this one that I can’t just keep to myself. And, as someone that is considered a leader within the WordPress community, I feel responsible for communicating with that community on this issue.

It’s spelled “WordPress”

WPCamelCase.com says so, and I’d never question an entire site dedicated to the proper spelling of a single word.
On a more serious note, these are not proper:

• Wordpress
• wordPress
• wordpress
• Word Press
• word press
• wordress
• WoRdPrEsS

Coming from an English and journalism (especially journalism) background, I feel a strong need to hack into the site of anyone that misspells WordPress and correct it for them. Fortunately, I don’t know how to hack people’s sites, have just a smidgen of self control, and respect the rights of others.