Tag Archives: mobile
Recently shared links on Twitter
We share daily tips, articles, news, and more on Twitter @Pixafy — are you following us? We’d love to hear from you, so be sure to tweet and follow us!
Here are a few useful tweets from our account, for your viewing pleasure: (more…)
50 essential mobile apps [part 2]
We recently asked our Pixafy team which apps they use on a regular basis and received a ton of responses! Last week, we brought you part 1 of “50 Essential Mobile Apps.” Here’s part 2, with 25 additional essential mobile apps that Pixafy folks use on a regular basis: (more…)
Why social commerce will become the eCommerce standard
Pixafy is thrilled to introduce guest blogs to our site. If you love our posts and think you have a must-read topic to contribute, please drop us a line!
The following post is by Justin Butlion, Content and Social Marketing Manager at Yotpo.
Why social commerce will become the eCommerce standard
The eCommerce industry, like every other industry online, has been shaken up by the socialization of the web and the explosion in smart phone adoption across the world. The industry as a whole has benefited from the billion or so people that have connected online in the last 5 years but overall has been slow to integrate and leverage the numerous social tools and networks available. In this post I will focus on this hesitation and make an argument for why those that decide to adopt social commerce principles will be around to tell the story, and welcome in a new era, where social commerce becomes the eCommerce standard. (more…)
CSS subpixel rendering
Working on a responsive site a little while ago, I was running into a very strange problem where elements were refusing to line up.
I had a list of menu links (<a> tags wrapped in <li>’s) and above them I had <h3> tags labeling each section. All the widths I was using are % based. The <h3> tags were 100% of the wrapper, the <li>’s the same (and their wrapping <ul>’s), and the <a> tags were 90% width with 5% padding on the sides (90%+5%+5% = 100%) width <span>’s wrapping the inner text.
And yet somehow the <h3>’s were appearing a tiny bit longer than the <a> tags when testing on mobile! In fact they were exactly 0.5px off. That is really odd and I knew it had to do something with subpixel rendering: (more…)
50 essential mobile apps [part 1]
Can you remember your “B.C.” era, the time “Before Cellphones”? Sounds practically prehistoric!
Many of us have pretty involved relationships with our mobile devices, which are equipped to offer us an integrated experience, with the ability to help us boost productivity, communicate with friends, be entertained, increase security, and so much more. It’s easy to understand why mobile app development is currently in high demand, movements like SoLoMo (social-local-mobile) are gaining steam and interest, while 2013 is being touted as “the year of responsive design.” The mobile market is ever-growing with apps that push for innovative, better user experience as mobile devices are being used to visit content, purchase goods, enjoy multimedia, and more.
We asked our Pixafy team which apps they find essential, and received an overwhelming response! We culled the list to 50 apps, for your viewing pleasure. Here’s the first installment, containing 25 essential mobile apps that Pixafy folks use on a regular basis: (more…)
Exploring performance issues on mobile devices
DevOps engineer Matthew Ahrenstein is a mobile phone enthusiast. He takes a look at a different type of challenge developing for mobile: the devices.
Josh’s recent post on responsive design, as well as Pat’s previous post, both hinted at performance issues on mobile. The obvious ones are clear: many people still do not have very high internet speeds when it comes to their devices. This is changing, but we’re not there yet, even though more than half of the active cell phones in America are smartphones. (more…)
The subtler side of responsive design
The term “Responsive Web Design” has become quite the buzzword in design circles as of late, a tacit recognition of the increasing popularity of mobile devices overall for web browsing. Just as, during my time in the newspaper industry, the mantra “Digital First!” became the catch phrase, increasingly the chant is “Mobile first!” among designers. (more…)
Understanding the basics of mobile front-end development
With the release of the iPhone 5, there was a lot of hype that it was going to affect mobile site design. However, at least for front-end developers like myself, it was not some groundbreaking change that would force us to create separate designs for different iPhones. The fact is, most designers and developers create their CSS in mind with support for a wide array of mobile devices that use multiple platforms and screen sizes. (more…)
Introducing our first game: Kings’ Corners!
Pixafy has two big pieces of news to share today:
First is that we have joined forces with our design partner Red Antler to form Order of Leisure, a company dedicated to making games, initially for iOS. As we release games, we’ll be sharing tips, tricks and news on Order of Leisure’s Facebook and Twitter pages. Be sure to follow us to stay informed!
Second is that our first game, “Kings’ Corners,” is now live on the iTunes store!
Learn more about the game after the jump:
