Your flash website can’t be viewed on the iPad. Your HTML website that requires a hover won’t work with a device that requires a touch.
Today marks a major milestone for not only Spilled Milk Designs, but for the entire web development community. OK so maybe we’re exaggerating just a bit, but truth be told we’ve done a heck of lot of research and have yet to find anything else like this on the planet. In fact we’re very comfortable in claiming this to be the first HTML5 touch website developed strictly for the iPad. But why build it?
If you have a few minutes you can read our previous post which deals a lot with the “why.”
The most obvious is that flash isn’t available on the iPad. This isn’t a secret, and everybody is painfully aware of it. Naturally, when someone visits your flash website on their iPad, they leave because they can’t see your website. This is bad! Especially when you consider that tablets will account for 25% of the PC market by 2015. We won’t even go into the analysts predictions for iPad sales, as it has already “not acted like a natural consumer device.” We’ll just say 100 million people will be using the iPad to browse websites within the next 18 months. That’s a lot of stinking people hitting websites that aren’t designed to run on the iPad. How frustrating is it to visit a website that doesn’t serve a proper iPad version? How frustrating is to visit a website on an iPad that serves you the mobile version with BIG TEXT?
This got us thinking. If flash websites are for desktops, and mobile websites for for mobiles, obviously we need websites for the iPad and other tablets. Not just a “website that happens to work” with the iPad, or a “website that was modified to run” on an iPad,” we need a site “built FOR the iPad.” An alternative version with a proper interface built strictly for touch. More importantly it has to look and feel native to the iPad. Molding the site in this fashion leaves no question on how to navigate or utilize the features. So after a few long weeks months of research and development we’re finally ready to present the alpha version of our HTML5 iPad website.
When folks on an iPad hit our main flash website, they are automatically redirected to some alpha iPad flavored goodness. A 100% hand crafted HTML5 work of art. A finite amount of detail went into making the “web application” feel like a “native application” (an app that you get from iTunes is “native” while an app that runs on the web is a “web app”). When launched from the home screen you’re presented with a splash screen start up, and full screen goodness further solidifying the look and feel of a native app. All sections can be swiped, and recent blog posts can be viewed and shared (alpha) to Twitter or Facebook. A different layout is displayed depending on whether the iPad is turned vertically, or horizontally, while also boasting offline access that automatically updates the app when it senses an active Internet connection (alpha and still under development). Of course an HTML5 website for the iPad just wouldn’t be an HTML5 website for the iPad if it didn’t have HTML5 video, contact forms, swipe-able portfolio section, testimonials, and more.
Do you want one? We thought so, and of course we planned ahead and will soon be releasing an editable version. Not only that but we built others, and some really cool ones for photographers that we’ll be showing off later. Easily edit and publish your own iPad website, all before you finish your first cup of coffee. Easily implement into any website, you don’t have to know any coding, there’s nothing to install, and everything is already setup and waiting for you. Did we mention that you’d be able to edit and publish your iPad website from your iPhone, iPad, or Android device later this year? Excited? We are! Sign up to be notified when we release the biggest thing to hit the streets since sliced bread. Finger Sites, websites built for touch. http://fingersites.com
