iPhoneized

For many people, Dreamweaver is an essential tool for making websites. I used Dreamweaver for a long time before I finally felt comfortable enough using a text editor. Indeed, DW still remains one of the most popular WYSIWYG  applications on the market.

With just a few clicks you can easily convert flash video to iPhone optimized video using Freeway. This tool will do the conversion for you on the fly, gives you the choice between Edge and/or WiFi-3G versions, and even generates the poster board for you.

Rick over at ColorCharge has put together a really handy jQuery reference sheet designed specifically for the iPhone.

Mippin is a very cool web service that instantly optimizes your site for mobile devices. In a very few steps you'll not only have an iPhoneized website, but you'll also be added to the Mippin.com community, and have the ability to monetize with ads from Admob designed specifically for mobile devices.

Testing iPhone specific websites as you design them has always been sort of a pain. You had to either use an iPhone emulator or FTP the files and test it on your own iPhone. Well those days are over.

Touting itself as a web application micro-framework, WebApp.Net has been designed to mimic the actual iPhone and iPod Touch graphic user interface. It provides many powerful and easy to use items, based on javascript and cascading style sheets technologies, to help you designing great and must seen web applications for Apple's latest mobile devices.

Back in 2007 Joe Hewitt wrote a nice little css/javascript framework for building iPhone web apps called iUI. In addition to web apps, iUI is a great foundation for learning how to build iPhone optimized websites. The basic building blocks are already there, all that's left is integrating your content and style.

Brave New Code has just released WPTouch Version 1.81. More than just a plugin, WPtouch is an entire theme package for your WordPress website. Modeled after Apple's app store design specs, WPtouch makes your WordPress website load lightning fast on touch mobile devices, show your content beautifully, all while not interfering with your regular theme.

Shaun Sullivan at Blackbaud Labs has created an iPhone simulator for Windows. iBBDemo correctly renders Webkit targeted html, including the custom -webkit CSS extenstions, effectively giving us a compelling demo/test platform for iPhone Web content from the comfort of a Windows desktop. Best of all, he's providing it for FREE!