Mobile Awesomeness Blog

We found this excellent article with 25 tips for designing your next mobile site: http://wegraphics.net/blog/tutorials/mobile-web-mastery-25-tips-on-designing-for-mobile-devices/

The team that brought us the HTML5 boilerplate has now released a mobile version. It's full of best-practices and recommended techniques. Download it today!

Looking for some mobile UI inspiration? A new site called Mobile UI Patterns (http://mobile-patterns.com) has a fantastic collection of common mobile UI elements. Check it out!

Six Revisions just published a nice run-down of 10 Mobile Device Testing Tools that is worth a read. Keep in mind that simulators aren't always like the real thing, but they can be helpful in a pinch. Whenever possible, we recommend using the official Apple iOS and Android SDK simulators for more consistent results on those platforms.

A recent article from Six Revisions provides a nice overview of mobile web design best practices for developers that are relatively new to optimizing for mobile devices. It's definitely worth a read. 

The developers at Opera, who have always been forward-thinking about mobile in their own right, published a fantastic Mobile Web Optimization Guide last week that's worth bookmarking! It's got some really great tips and resource links.

For mobile websites that need to stream content or have particularly high and/or geographically diverse traffic, Mobile CDN is a good thing to look into.

If you have an iPhone-optimized version of your website or web app, check out Apple's brief guide to preparing your web content for the iPad. In most cases it's a better idea to show the full website to iPad browsers instead of the mobile version.

Ironically, Apple doesn't seem to follow their own advice. The guide doesn't work properly when viewing it on the iPad. Oh well, the iPad is still awesome!

This article over at InstantShift.com is a great summary for web designers getting into mobile. The article also makes mention of Mobile Awesomeness!

Mobi10 is a hosted service that simplifies the process of creating a mobile-optimized website by providing some nice testing and WYSIWYG tools for customers. Pricing ranges from $10-20/month and it looks like their focus is on Apple, Blackberry, Android and Palm devices.

Related services:

• Mobify
• MoFuse
• Wapple