jQuery Mobile Joomla Integration

When optimizing your websites for mobile devices, it is most important to consider mobile URL's indexed in Google and plan for search engine optimization ("SEO").  There are several options; such as, using a mobile subdomain like "m." or "mobile." or subfolder naming conventions like m/ or mobile/.  In all cases, if you're using Taptheme for Joomla, the best practice is to use an alternative alias from your top-level domain ("TLD").  

As soon as you decide to implement a mobile interface for your Joomla website, be sure to take a look at your options.  Taptheme is a Joomla add-on that provides Joomla users two different alternatives for setting up your iPhone homescreen.  You may setup your homescreen with icons and a toolbar just like your iphone native interface OR choose a list style option which people find easy and clean.

Ever think about how to make your travel arrangements easier or adding something new to your Thanksgiving holiday? If you're the kind of person who likes convenience and does't like to waste time searching for new deals online, there are several mobile apps that can help plan for your holiday. Try minimizing your search for travel arrangements and eliminating old habits with these 5 FREE mobile apps. Bring something scrumtiously new to the family while keeping up with your favorite football team.  You're bound to get good use from these apps.

TapTheme is now ready for Joomla 1.7!

Taptheme is an efficient and effective product available to optimize your Joomla website for mobile devices.  It gives you the ability to choose a native app interface on your iPhone, iPad, or Android.  The Taptheme interface allows you to choose your own images and configure your dashboard the way you want AND/OR you may choose to have a menu dropdown and list style option that comes with 17 different themes and colors.  Simply choose the color of your company's marketing material and you're set!

Taptheme is compatible for all iPhone, Android, and iPad versions and we are happy to announce that it is now available for Joomla 1.7.  If you already purchased the TapTheme template or Taptheme Bundle, you may download the new version at any time.  Login to our store and visit your downloads page for the new zip file.

We recently had the pleasure of meeting Mike Demopoulos of Sengistix at Joomla Day Chicago on August 5, 2011.  Sengistix is a company that works with assessing areas of concern and vulnerability to meet individual needs.  They designed a product called the S.E.N.S. System (Secure Environmental Network of Support System) that allows caregivers to monitor select activities of individuals remotely. S.E.N.S. hardware and software identifies and responds to the right set of conditions.  For example, a motion sensor may be placed under an individuals bed to detect if a particular patient or individual has fallen.  It can also email the caregiver if the required dose of medication has been consumed at a particular time.

When we think of mobile content management, we think of a CMS that offers mobile themes.  For now , we are referring to the content contained on your mobile website.  The best practice for keeping your audience interested is to include content that is brief and to the point; that goes for your main site and mobile site.  If your main site is already simplistic, you might keep the mobile content similar but if you want to engage your mobile users consider a dedicated mobile site.  Most importantly, create mobile content for SEO.

If you have a Joomla website, you may consider optimizing your site for mobile devices soon.  Taptheme, amongst other products, allows you to you to do just that without hiring a contract developer for this project.  Taptheme is similar to other products while also offering a few other features that might be beneficial to you or your company.  We will start by discussing Taptheme for the iPhone.  Next, we will introduce the benefit of Taptheme for the iPad and last, we will describe the similarities of the Android features to the iPhone. 

Joomla mobile configuration couldn't be easier with Taptheme.  This week, we added a few videos to show how to configure Taptheme for the iPhone.  If you've already downloaded Taptheme, you can easily follow the steps in the Taptheme docs or simply watch the training videos below the documentation.  

Mobile friendly websites are vital to users across the world and especially while traveling for events; we learned this while enjoying our time at the CMS Expo and JandBeyond.  It was super convenient to schedule the day by simply viewing the Joomla sessions on our iPhones.  We were able to read more about the speakers and what to expect next.  Their developers did a great job by making the sites mobile ready and Pixel Praise has done the same for Joomla Day Austin with our very own mobile optimizing tool, Taptheme.