iPhone compatible website themes
These themes allow you to create web pages that will
be best viewed with Apple's iPhone. These website templates
are mainly designed for RapidWeaver and Wordpress and are
currently iPhone-only: they have no ability to detect
whether the visitor is using a non-IPhone browser and will
therefore look slightly odd on non iPhone browsers. Check
them out on the
website
themes page.
iPhone centered website themes
These templates allow you to create web pages with an
iPhone theme. These website templates are mainly designed
for RapidWeaver and Wordpress. They are not particularly
tailored nor suited for viewing on the iPhone web browser.
Check them out on the
website
themes page.
iPhone skins and themes
These templates allow you to skin your own phone
(whether an iPhone or not) to become more iPhone-like. Work
with most popular phones such as Sony Ericsson, Nokia,
Samsung, Panasonic, Blackberry, PocketPC, etc. Check them
out on the
phone skins page.
Useful resources for website development for the
iPhone
There are only very few resources available at
this time, but here are a some that you may find useful:
Creating an iPhone compatible RapidWeaver
theme
Before creating a special handheld version of
your site by detecting the iPhone's browser user agent you
may already want to play around with your site's style
sheets. With this in mind I have created a very simple
RapidWeaver
theme that meets the following requirements:
- it works both in landscape and portrait mode;
- focus on readability on the iPhone's small but high
resolution screen ;
- very light to allow reasonable download times for
iPhone access over the EDGE network;
- clear link highlighting having finger browsing in
mind;
- very quick javascript runtime; and
- clear separation between HTML and CSS.
My iPhone theme is still very much in its infancy and
is only meant as a test before developing
RapidWeaver
and
Wordpress of
our own websites. Do not expect iPhone pictures or
demos here, the focus is on development of websites
versions that can be easily read on the iPhone's web
browser. My RapidWeaver
iPhone theme is still in a
pre-alpha stage and is made available for testing
purposes only. Not that I imagine that anyone would
use this very simple theme for production purposes,
but be warned that this is certainly not ready for
prime time yet. Use at your own risk ;-) You can get
it from the download page and adapt it to your needs
by following the very few publicly available
guidelines on
web development for the
iPhone.
