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New features added to site – Iphone compatible, Brightkite plugin, new weekly logo

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

I have had a busy couple of days getting some new bits ready for this site and learning a lot in the process. The main bulk of work has gone into getting the site Iphone compatible, choosing to keep this to just the blog at the moment I will open up the other areas once I can get the loading times down concerning the images. I have added a bunch of resources at the bottom of this post that I used.

I want to do a lot more work on this as it is something that really interests me, there are a lot of small features I want to add to the Iphone version of this site, but I made a decision to release the first one otherwise I would never get it up and now I can focus on making it even better. I am also working on designs for a native Iphone application at the moment which is super exciting. So now if you point your Iphone to olliekav.com you’ll get a nive fresh Iphone view.

The next feature I have added is the Brightkite plugin for WordPress. I have altered this slightly to be more compatible with my site and I’d like to move away from a static map to a dynamic one once I have more time to play with it. You can get the plugin from here. I am leaning more and more away from Twitter to Brightkite as I love the location based networking it involves and I can see the API bringing a real benefit to apps.

As a last feature I have added my weekly logo, a homage to one of my favourite logos by one of my favourite design houses Inocuo Design.

Just as a disclaimer a lot of changes I made have affected IE6 in some areas, while I made sure the whole site was IE6 compatible when I first built it I am now using the progressive enhancement approach as I will with all my sites and some features won’t be available for IE6 users.

Iphone/CSS3/JS Resources

• Apple Iphone SDK
• Six tips to optimise your site for the Iphone
• CSS Styling for Portrait and Landscape
• Firebug for the Iphone
• Meta Viewport tags
• Iphone Developers wiki
• Make the most of Iphone SDK
• Iphone and Ruby on Rails
• Javascript for Orientation – Thanks to Joe Hewitt
• WebKit nightly build
• Apple Webkit Supported CSS Properties
• Planet WebKit
• CSS Transforms
• CSS Animation
• CSS Masks
• CSS Reflections
• Introducing CSS Gradients
• CSS Animation Using CSS Transforms
• CSS Transition Timing Functions
• WebKit CSS Styles
• Box-shadow
• testing iPhone CSS
• iPhone developers wiki