The iPad arrives in Canada and around the world today – is your website designed to work on it? Not only should you be considering how your website looks on standard internet browsers and smart phones, you now also need to think about how good it looks on the iPad.
If your website has been designed with a screen resolution of 1024 x 768 and is on the 960 grid system then you should be good to go! (Ask your webmaster if you don’t know the answer.) iPads will show your website in landscape and portrait modes so having a fluid layout (fluid means a layout that shrinks or grows according to the browser size but with a minimum width size) could be a really good function to have. (more…)
Have you ever signed up for a website or bought a product or service on the net and as soon as you hit “send” you instantly receive an email confirming your action? You may think that there are a hundred elves waiting in the North Pole to answer your emails. While certainly a cute thought, that’s not the case. Usually, the company or website has an email auto responder set to send you an email once you’re done ordering or signing up. 
At October 17 Media we’ve been harping on making your web site mobile accessible for a while now. This company has taken it one step further and allows you to really capitalize on advertising to customers with iphones. They’ve developed a really neat application called ‘Clip Mobile’ for the iphone that allows you to post coupons and deals available to those who download the free application. We’ve asked the developers a few interview questions we think advertisers would like to know about getting their coupons onto the clip mobile network.
