ChurchMag is a great website that investigates the relationship between Church and technology.

I’ve already written a few guest posts over at ChurchMag, and these next two make it 5 in total.

My Journey of Creation with iBooks Author

Just recently I created an iBook with iBooks Author. iBooks Author is a relatively new program and I wanted to share my experiences – the ups and downs – of using iBooks Author. I really enjoyed the process, and you can read about it here over at ChurchMag now.

A Great Screen Casting Tool That Comes FREE With Every Mac

If you’ve ever wanted to record your screen to demonstrate a website or a computer program and you have a Mac, then y0u’re in luck. QuickTime Player (the application with which you watch video files) allows you to create a screen cast. I’ve written about some of the features of QuickTime Player’s screen casting ability in this post. Read it here.

This is a post that I wrote in November of last year. I didn’t publish it at the time as I wasn’t 100% sure about my convictions. At the moment I feel pretty convinced of my thoughts, but having said that, I’m not a professional web developer by any means. My thoughts on mobile websites are just that, my thoughts. Let me know what you think about mobile websites in the comments below. In the meantime, read my thoughts from last year.

Let me just get this out there, mobile versions of websites frustrate me.

As someone who regularly views websites on either his iPhone or iPad, I’m used to browsing the web on the go. And I really like it, I like the ability to have the internet in my pocket. But I find it frustrating when I come across this.

Mobile Version of ProBlogger.net

6.4% of all internet usage is now on a mobile device (via Net Market Share), which may not seem like a lot at the moment. But some people are predicting that by 2015, mobile web usage will outweigh computer web usage (via Mashable).

A lot of websites are taking this to mean that they should care about mobile websites, which I whole-heartedly agree with. What I don’t agree with is their method of doing so.

Most websites think that the best way to appeal to mobile web users is to create a separate look for their website, just for mobile users, such as the above skin that many WordPress based blogs sport.

However mobile devices these days come with large touch-screen displays, that have the ability to display full webpages. When I’m browsing, I want to see the whole website, not some cut down version. For example, look at all that I’m missing out on from ProBlogger.net.

I would much prefer for this whole site to come up when I view it on my iPhone.

So I’ve disagreed with the current method of making a mobile “skin” for your website, a cut down version for mobile browsers. But what do I think the solution is?
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