Recent posts about Mobile
What we’re thinking about here at Raised Eyebrow these days. You can subscribe to our blog by RSS, or sign up for email updates.
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Changing perspectives on Phone calls and SMS
February, 14 2013 CommentsThere are around 6 billion active mobile phones worldwide which exceeds the world population. That's a staggering statistic. It's also a huge market. It should be noted that this number relates to all mobile phones, not smartphones specifically, so "dumb" phones as well. Most of these "dumb" phones allow you to perform two basic actions - make & receive voice calls and send & receive SMS messages. Until recently, it's been somewhat difficult, costly and time consuming to try to target these avenues as part of a marketing, fundraising or outreach campaign. We've all seen those ads for text donations to help send aid to Haiti not long after the massive earthquake. For a small organization, a similar campaign method would have been unfeasible until now. Enter Twilio!
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Covenant House Vancouver Now Mobile Responsive
October, 2 2012 Comments
This week we launched a very exciting project for our beloved friends and longterm clients at Covenant House Vancouver. While there's no doubt that their new site is beautiful, the really exciting part for our team was that with this project we got to help Covenant House become a leader in providing a truly mobile responsive website to help serve their own clients, as well as for easy use by supporters and donors.
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Design Patterns Updated for Foundation 3
September, 5 2012 CommentsIt's no secret that we love Zurb's Foundation here at Raised Eyebrow and version 3 has brought with it all kinds of amazing goodies that make theming and prototyping a breeze.
In a previous post I described some responsive design patterns that can help you think about layouts on various device sizes. These patterns have now been updated to use Foundation3 as well as some neat little updates to make things pretty and show you how it all works.
You can see the updated design patterns here.
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Responsive Design Patterns
April, 25 2012 CommentsA while back Colin sent me a link to a blog post by Joshua Johnson about responsive design patterns. What’s a responsive design pattern you ask? It’s a mockup that helps us plan out how our sites are going to react on various display types and resolutions. Since we’ve started using Foundation all of our sites behave in basically the same on smaller devices: that is, columns become rows and we hide some elements.
Our newly deployed site Internet Hall of Fame is a good example of a complex-looking theme with a very basic, very out-of-the-box responsive behaviour. Notice the menus and the logo in particular:
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We Built the Internet Hall of Fame
April, 23 2012 CommentsWhile it's not quite the same as the honour of being inducted, we were pretty thrilled earlier this year when The Internet Society asked our team to build the online home of the Internet Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame site was built to honour some of our greatest heros, the people whose work has literally made our jobs possible like Vint Cerf and Tim Berners-Lee. Also in this year's round of inductees, Mitchell Baker, Open Source advocate and founding chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation, and a woman we have much respect and admiration for here at Raised Eyebrow.
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Responsive Web Design
April, 5 2012 CommentsColin, my esteemed colleague and Raised Eyebrow's Senior Developer, linked to a great article on Twitter last week about responsive web design.
It really struck a chord with us here in the office as it's something we've been thinking about more and more in recent months. Whereas before it was a 'want', it's quickly becoming a 'need' for our clients. Though many of our existing client sites already show pretty well on mobile devices, we are beginning to think about this earlier in our process rather than have it be an afterthought.
Stay tuned for further posts on this topic and to see future sites designed and built with mobile responsiveness in mind! -
Text message your Drupal site
September, 8 2011 CommentsIn May, while speaking at and attending the Make Web Not War conference in Vancouver, I met up with Adam Kalsey from Tropo and attended his talk outlining how his messaging service, called Tropo, can be integrated with Drupal. I came away with tons of ideas on how to use this service to do neat things with Drupal. I decided to start with some low hanging fruit. We currently have a module for Drupal that plugs into the Webform module and allows users to enter their postal code and return information about their local Member of Parliament (MP) in Canada. This module communicates with the API at howdtheyvote.ca to return all the necessary MP info, such as:
