I installed an iPhone-only theme this morning. If you land on BloodhoundBlog from any browser except Safari for the iPhone, you’ll see our normal theme. If you come in from the iPhone, you’ll get a theme optimized for the iPhone’s (or iTouch’s) screen size.
This is the way BHB looked on an iPhone until this morning:
This is how it looks now:
The theme rotates as you would expect it to, so you can get to a wider, shorter, easier-reading page if you want to.
The normal sidebar stuff is entirely omitted, so you’ll have to come in from a desktop browser to see that content.
Remember that you can easily add a BloodhoundBlog button to your iPhone home page.
I have to work out an algorithm, but, last night, in a fit of ecstatic romantic frenzy, Cathy and I worked out how to produce engenu-like pages on-the-spot. If I can figure out how to move iPhone photos to a file server, we could produce previewing web pages from within the house we are previewing.
Sufficient unto the day: If you have an iPhone, the new theme should make BloodhoundBlog easier to read on the run.
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David G says:
v.nice – thanks Greg – though the site is already so clean that it needed it less than most do. The comment interface rocks on the iPhone. The only improvement I can imagine would be a spell checker for comments just for the iPhone template.
August 24, 2008 — 1:23 pm
Louis Cammarosano says:
looks good thanks. Came to the web based bhb to see how the new design would look after visiting on my iphone. Was disappointed not to see the new logo here!
August 24, 2008 — 1:28 pm
Brian Brady says:
“but, last night, in a fit of ecstatic romantic frenzy, Cathy and I worked out how to produce engenu-like pages on-the-spot”
What? Put down the iPhone and pick up the whiskey- it’s supposed to be a vacation
August 24, 2008 — 3:01 pm
Wine Dog says:
BHB looks good on my iPhone!
August 24, 2008 — 3:27 pm
Greg Swann says:
> What? Put down the iPhone and pick up the whiskey- it’s supposed to be a vacation
That’s life at our house. We’re never on vacation from the world of ideas. There was a theme for the conversations of our weekend: The mostly-unheralded explosion of theory in the information sciences — not data-processing but pure signal-handling — and how that’s going to explode in incredible new technologies from now until forever. IOW, if you thought the last 25 years were exciting, keep your eyes focused on the next ten years. Our little invention, instant real estate web pages, is just an artifact of all that: The-world-of-the-impossible-just-yesterday. This is a wonderful time to be alive as a human being.
August 24, 2008 — 3:49 pm
Greg Swann says:
> BHB looks good on my iPhone!
Bless you. Thank you. I just tweeked a little more to get our avatars and links into the byline. Over the next couple of days. I’ll deploy this on our other blogs.
August 24, 2008 — 4:22 pm
James Boyer South Orange NJ says:
Looks good Greg, I have a treo and so it makes no difference for me but for those looking form a iphone they get a nice look.
August 24, 2008 — 5:22 pm
Ryan hartman says:
Looks good. Have you tried “FTP on the go” from the itunes store. Looks like it might allow for uploading iPhone images.
August 24, 2008 — 8:47 pm
M. Boyd - GetMyHomesValue.com says:
Great work on the I-Phone site. I wonder how much of a priority uploading images on sites should even be for I-Phone sites. With such a small space to read and the “need to know” nature of people on the go, should images be such a priority?
August 25, 2008 — 8:29 am
Todd Carpenter says:
Tonight, you inspired me. Looks good from my phone Greg.
August 27, 2008 — 2:06 am
Sue says:
Looks great Greg. Its a big improvement.
November 9, 2008 — 6:29 pm