Early November Product Update

7 11 2009

This week we’re proud to announce more great updates from our development team. The biggest highlights are updates to our editors, the introduction of filters, and a beta customer search functionality. Here’s the latest:

  • Editor Update – We use a third party editor and are excited to roll out their latest updates. With the latest release you’ll notice a slick style and  improvements on many of the editors core features such as improvements to the image editor,  the link manager, the paste from word functionality and also a number of bug fixes around different browsers and HTML translation. We’ve played with the new tools for a couple of weeks and we’re very excited about the update.
  • Filters on Customer and Business Tables –  Our user management and our business management tools now have filters.  For user management you can select to display the filters by clicking on “show filter” at the bottom of the user management grid. Partners will also see the ability to sort through businesses through their client selector pages. Read the rest of this entry »




Creating a YouTube Feed With Everywhereigo

6 11 2009

Having a Youtube feed on your mobile site will allow users to view select videos posted by you or others, incorporating a more visual aspect into your site. Users are able to view these videos without being redirected away from your branded mobile experience. Read the rest of this entry »





Adding Analytics to Your Mobile Site

20 10 2009

We recently made an update to help our customers track the stats for their mobile sites. Previously we added Google Analytics, but this only worked for smartphones due to their support for Javascript. With the recent additions of Bango, Admob and Motally you can now add analytics for all mobile devices to your site. Below is instructions for each of these.
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Landing mobile (part two)

9 10 2009

As follow-up to Landing mobile Part One, we posed the questions:

“…what happens after a consumer clicks on a web link in the text message you’ve blasted to your list or clicks on the mobile display ad you’ve developed?  Where do they land? Where should they land? Are you able to convert curious consumers into well-qualified leads?”

While the results of a “click” can range beyond taking the viewer to a landing page (for instance taking them directly to placing a call), one of the most effective lead generation and CRM techniques on mobile is taking them to a landing page or mobile web advertisement that is designed for mobile.

The mobile audience is desirable and more willing to engage with advertising when advertisers lead users to mobile-designed landing pages and micro-sites rather than to desktop-styled web sites.  Landing page usability has always been a make or break factor for advertising effectiveness and it’s even more so when it comes to mobile users.

While a desktop-style site may be tolerated by some mobile users, a mobile-designed site will attract and retain mobile users, and yield an increasingly large and receptive audience.  Landing pages need to be relevant for the “consumer on the go”, device-appropriate, and include an incentive for the consumer to participate.

In our next post on this topic, we’ll dive more deeply into relevancy, devices, and incentives.





Adding Background Images

21 09 2009

Background images can be created and added to your CSS to go behind text and images on your mobile site. This method of adding background images will create backgrounds for individual pages, this allows you to have multiple background images on your site and pages without background images.

Create a background image

**please note: The width of the iPhone screen is 320px so that should be the max width to ensure that your image doesn’t get cropped or altered.

1. Upload your image into the content editor.
2. Open your CSS document and scroll down to the IPHONE CONTENT OVERIDES section. You will see this at the top of the overrides section:

body.mobile form {
margin:0;
padding:0;
}

body.mobile #footerwrap {
border-top:0px solid #000;
}

You will insert the custom CSS text after the body.mobile #footerwrap{ border-top:0px solid #000;}

4. Insert this code into your CSS document:

#iphonecontainer #ContentGroupID- – - – {
background: url(‘../dynamicimage.aspx?id=- – - – ‘) repeat;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
}

5. ****important note: the – - – - after #ContentGroupID are placeholders. When you decide what page the background image is going on, look at the URL of that page. It should look something like this:

http://yourbusinessname.everywhereigo.com/CMS/MobiRenderContent.aspx?contentGroupID=3705

The number at the end of the link will go after the ContentGroupID in the CSS. It will look like this:

#iphonecontainer #ContentGroupID3705{

6. ****important note: once you have uploaded your background image into the content editor it will be assigned a url or “image location” that will look like this:

https://phindme.net/DynamicImage.aspx?id=2712

You can find this location by right clicking your image as it appears in the preview window in the image manager within the content editor. The last 4 digits of this address will go after dynamicimage.aspx?id= in the CSS. It will look like this:

background: url(‘../dynamicimage.aspx?id=-2712′) repeat;

7. The section of code shown in (4.) can be copied and pasted as many times as pages you have on your site. Make sure to change the content group id# and the dynamic image # to correlate with the web page and background image you want for that page.

8. You will notice that after the image number the code says repeat; this means that if your background image is for example 100px high and your web page is 500px the image will be repeated to fill the extra 400px.

If this bothers you, try making an image that has a similar shade and pattern at the bottom and the top so that the transition is less noticeable.

9. If you do not want the image to repeat simply replace repeat; with no-repeat;. If the image is not repeating you should try to make the image size the same size as your page so there is no white space at the bottom.





Changing The Navigation Bars – Identical Bars

21 09 2009

The following direction will create custom navigation buttons that have identical images/colors/patters:

Access your CSS sheet.

Follow the following post on Accessing, Understanding and Editing Your CSS. You also can reference the post Designing Locally with Everywhereigo for tips on how to finalize a design before you upload the file.

Editing your CSS sheet.

1. Once your CSS sheet can be edited scroll to the bottom of the page until you see: /*********** IPHONE CONTENT OVERRIDES ***********/. In this section you can change the appearance of the navigation bars.

2. The code in this section to change the button images looks like:

body.mobile #iphonefooter #navlist
{
display: block;
padding:0;
margin:0;
background: url(‘images/iphone_button_preview_bg.gif’) repeat-x #dfdfdf;
border-bottom:1px solid #a3a3a3;
} Read the rest of this entry »





Changing the Navigation Bars – Different Navigation Bars for Each Item

20 09 2009

The following directions will allow you to create custom navigation buttons that have different images/colors/patterns:

Access your CSS sheet.

Follow the following post on Accessing, Understanding and Editing Your CSS. You also can reference the post Designing Locally with Everywhereigo for tips on how to finalize a design before you upload the file.

Editing your CSS sheet

1. Once your CSS sheet can be edited scroll to the bottom of the page until you see: /*********** IPHONE CONTENT OVERRIDES ***********/.
2. In this section you can change the color of the navigation bars in the iPhone display. The code in this section to change the images looks like :

body.mobile #iphonefooter #navlist
{
display: block;
padding:0;
margin:0;
background: url(‘images/iphone_button_preview_bg.gif’) repeat-x #dfdfdf;
border-bottom:1px solid #a3a3a3;
} Read the rest of this entry »





Accessing, Understanding and Editing the CSS Sheet

20 09 2009

The CSS sheet for Everywhereigo currently includes most of the layout content and is the way to change the look and feel of your mobile and web site. Through the CSS you can add buttons, change the background color and images, and even remove the navigation from certain sites to make splash pages. This post is only relative to accessing the CSS and not a tutorial on how to add buttons, change backgrounds, and change colors. These will be part of later posts.

In order to access the CSS sheet you can go to http://yoursite.everywhereigo.com/DynamicCSS.aspx. Here you’ll see that the CSS is broken out into may different sections including a PC section at the top, a general mobile section, a blackberry/qwerty phone section, and an iPhone/touchscreen section. These different sections of CSS correspond with different classes and ID’s on the various html pages which have the following key wrappers around them: Read the rest of this entry »





3 09 2009

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