Recently Tyndale’s web team—Josh Force, Sarn Phamornsuwana, Jamie Todd, and Marc Hester—launched a ­mobile version of THP’s corporate website in response to the growing use of mobile web browsing. You can view the website on your mobile device at tyndale.com or by going to mobile.tyndale.com on your desktop browser.
For the past few years the web team has [...]

Here at Tyndale, the web team is hard at work on a few exciting projects consisting of creating websites tailored specific for mobile devices. As we familiarize ourselves into this new frontier, we’ve been discovering that even though many aspect of mobile web development is similar to creating websites for the desktop computer, there [...]

From Various Talks:
Designing a Seamless Web to Mobile Experience:
Omar Green
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Mobile Opportunities for Entrepreneurs in 2011
James Pierce
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Mobile and tablet platforms unsurprisingly received a lot of coverage at SXSW. We’ve been researching and implementing mobile and app development at Tyndale – hopefully the following gleaned observations will be helpful.
There was a lot of talk on mobile and [...]

I attended a good amount of design and user experience/interface centered talks at SXSW. Here are some of the highlights:
from: Anatomy of a Design Decision
Jared M. Spool
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Types of design:
Each of the following are increasingly time consuming and involved. Jared was quick to point out that each of these types of design has an appropriate place [...]

PLATFORM
“Mobile apps” is the latest hot trend in today’s business world and I get the privilege here at Tyndale House Publishers to create one. I’m currently developing the app using a cross platform development framework called PhoneGap.  So far I like the framework a lot.
What I really like about PhoneGap is that it allows me [...]

Searching is a very important elements in many of today’s website.  Almost every corporate website has some form of searching capability.  Tyndale’s corporate site is no exception.  Our Tyndale.com product search has come a long way.  The original search method was a very basic 1-dimensional search known as a stem searching using nothing but a [...]

Recently I attended the WordCamp 2010 Conference for WordPress.  This is the second year the conference has been around and just hearing that the numbers of attendees jumped from 200 to 500 just proves how quickly WordPress is gaining popularity as a web content (not just blogging) platform

Speed & Page Rank
Some [...]

We’ve all gathered some thoughts on Steve Job’s fight against Flash, feel free to comment.
Sarn’s Thoughts…
Dissecting what Jobs said, he is entirely correct, but it’s not the whole picture.
•Flash saps power.
•It does add a third level of complexity and software to existing frameworks.
•It is slow to adopt enhancement on new platforms.
But this is what happens [...]

I recently attended the SXSW convention in Austin, Texas. The great thing about this convention was meeting others in the technology field and getting a chance to hear the best of the best speak about the latest bleeding edge technologies coming in the near future. There were many great questions were raised [...]

The days of locking developers in the backroom so they can program away are long gone.  Today’s developers are invited to interact directly with marketers, sales personnel, editors, customer service reps, and even other people outside the company such as end-customers, the general public, partners, etc.. through physical interaction and using new forms of communication [...]