Over the past few years, mobile Internet consumption has increased at an exponential rate.  A good portion of this can be attributed to the success of smart phone devices like Google’s Android platform, Apple’s iPhone, RIM’s Blackberry, and of course Windows mobile phones.

When phones first became Internet capable, it was common for developers to enable their web pages to work with the WAP browsers. Current smart phones are much more powerful, the browsers work with standards in-line with their larger computer brethren. This has led many developers feel that there is no need to create versions of their websites that work with WAP browsers.

While that may be true, some provisions  should be made to insure that your users will have quick access to your content using the slower Internet connections provided by their phones. Below i have outlined a few tips to make sure your website will satisfy your visitors on their mobile devices.

Create a Mobile Sub-Domain

Creating a mobile version of your website begins with creating a sub-domain of your current site. Most users have become accustomed to appending “m” or “mobile” so that your URL reads m.yoursite.com or mobile.yoursite.com. After creating a sub-domain, you have the choice in how you want your mobile site to work. Either it can be a mirror of your main sites content with a custom CSS file made for mobile browsers or you can choose to make an independent site that has its own content that you feel would benefit mobile users.
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I feel glad to introduce a free WordPress theme for the Mobile Phones. This is a minimalistic theme that can be used by bloggers who want to target mobile phone users. This theme will fit perfectly in all the mobile phones (any resolution) and because of its light weight, will also reduce loading times. The three key features that I have included with this theme are:-

1. You can choose your own theme color from the theme options. (any color you want for your theme is just a click away)
2. You can define your own width for your theme. The theme can have 100% width if you want the theme to fit on every mobile phone, or you can define a fixed width in pixels to target special users.
3. The front page will dynamically create thumbnails for your posts.
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Whoa! No need to get excited! WordPress 3.0 hasn’t been released yet.

But, here is a sneak preview of the features that will be included in the upcoming release of WordPress on May 1, 2010. The expected features are pretty cool as they will make an already robust CMS more effective and efficient.

WordPress Merged with WP-MU

As most of us already know that WordPress MU allows users to run multiple sites under one installation. In the upcoming release, WordPress MU will be merged into the WordPress Core. So, from now on, you will be able to run more than one site/blog from a single installation of WordPress. Here is a screenshot of what to expect :-

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I was planning to release this free WordPress theme for a long time now. I stopped myself from doing it because of the changing trends. Nowadays, a lot of people are preferring magazine-styled themes, themes with super-duper slide shows, nifty effects and all that jazz!

But I am sure that there still exists a class of people who admire simple, minimalistic, and aesthetic themes. This was the sole reason of Blog Oh! Blog being famous in the first place. So, my new theme “Ultima” is dedicated to all those simple-minded bloggers and authors.

This is a soft-colored, rounded theme that totally aims at content and nothing else. This 2-column theme is all about the “complexity of simple things”… Enjoy!
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Tippy-tippy tap, what color you want?

This was a game that we used to play as children but Alas! Those days are long gone now. Well, the days might have long gone, but the spirit of playing with colors still resides within me. So, to mark this spirit, I announce my new Premium WordPress theme called “ColorPress“.

ColorPress is a theme that lets you play with color! Now, you will not be restricted to using a few color schemes provided by theme developers. You have all the world’s colors to apply to your theme! Just pick your color and magic happens! The whole theme changes colors (giving different shades to the background, links, menus, slideshow etc.) taking in account the one color that you provide by picking up from the color table. Isn’t that cool?

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