On the day Apple announced they sold one million iPads (here) A Photo Folio releases our custom designed iPad sites, built using HTML5, for all new and existing customers.
We are committed to delivering exceptional websites on all platforms, that’s why we were the first and are currently the only portfolio website design company to deliver this for the iPad.
Because our websites are database driven we can deliver exceptional flash websites for the desktop and HTML5 sites for the iPad.
The iPad sites are designed to showcase your photography and video but also make full use of the unique finger swiping capability and orientation change from horizontal the vertical.
Our database seamlessly delivers your image galleries, thumbnails, videos, text pages, links to your blog and all your contact information.
When technology evolves we do to, A Photo Folio is committed to change.
Jon Roemer
4 months ago
Rob – great to see this happen so quickly.
Here’s a trick if you want to preview your APF site, to see how it will look on the iPad. This is for Safari on a Mac.
In Safari, in the Preferences > Advanced Tab, select “Show Develop menu in menu bar. This will make a “Develop” menu header.
Then open the web page you want to preview with iPad formatting (e.g. your APF site), Click Develop > User Agent > Other, from the menu. A box appears with a custom user agent string. Replace the string with, “Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B334b Safari/531.21.10″ and click “okay”.
You will now see a simulated version of your APF site showing how it will reformat itself for the iPad.
I’m sure, in the future, Safari will be updated to include the iPad as a preset in the User Agent menu.
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Glenn Cratty
3 months ago
I had a notion that this was pretty sweet but not a full comprehension until I sent my virgin site out to a friend/colleague/client yesterday for a critique and got this response:
“Interestingly, I opened the site on my iPad last night and it loaded an iPad version – the URL comes up ipad.glenncratty.com. It’s slightly different. For one thing, you don’t see the logo at the top; it just renders in text. I’m sure you didn’t do anything to iPad enable it, which means the site just did it automatically. Pretty cool, especially if the desktop/web version uses Flash to swipe the photos. Apple has left Flash in the dust for all its mobile devices, so patch-throughs are having to be hard-coded to get the iPad to recognize Flash on the web. Most of the time, as you know from having an iPhone, the page just doesn’t load properly. You have to force program Flash to work. It’s a messy process (this is the kind of thing I’ve learned too much about with the magazine project), and it’s great that it’s not something you have to worry about, apparently.”
Kudos and thanks to APF for this!
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