Mobile Site Launch: Kennington Capital
August 30, 2008
I’ve been working closely with Reeves Design House over the past year or so on a variety of freelance projects. They’ve been landing some great projects and I’ve really enjoyed being a part of as much of them as time permits. The latest set of projects has offered me some wonderful learning opportunities. We’ve been exploring mobile web design by building a mobile site for Kennington Capital, a real estate investment and development company in the Dallas area. I finally had the opportunity to dive into XHTML-MP coding and some careful testing on a seemingly endless array of handheld devices. I soon discovered that it just wasn’t practical to bug all of my friends to borrow their phones. Thanks to Klaus Komenda’s article called Testing on Mobile Devices Using Emulators, I had a much better approach for testing and tweaking the code. As well, I’ve compiled a bunch of handy links on Delicious related to mobile web design from a variety of sources. The best resource, without a doubt, was Cameron Moll’s short but concise book called Mobile Web Design, A web standards approach for delivering content to mobile devices. Cameron’s original set of articles is a great start as well. So, please take a look at the Kennington Capital mobile web site (m.kenningtoncapital.com) on your handheld device and let me know what you think.
Developing a web-based application for the iPhone (and iPod Touch) has its fair share of unique challenges. Recently, I had the opportunity to dive into such a project by developing a user interface for an application my brother built a while ago. He had created a server-based web app, just for fun, that provides helpful information for finding such things as movie theater listings, recent DVD releases, critics reviews, etc. Mainly we were using it to find showtimes for local movie theaters at the last minute (e.g., on our phones when a newspaper wasn’t handy). But we also found it useful while browsing movies at the video store in order to view movie ratings, reviews, actors, and other useful things in order to avoid renting bad movies.