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What’s New in Mojaba 1.6

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It’s time to share what we’ve cooked up for Mojaba, version 1.6. We’ve built in some new features as well two-dozen tweaks and changes. Here are the highlights:

1. Image Resizing – Updated the image resizing in Mojaba to only scale images if they are larger than 640 pixels in width. Mojaba originally also resized images larger than 800 pixels in height. This led to some limitations for using images in Panel backgrounds.

The Progress Indicator shows the steps from creation to publishing and links to Help articles for each.

2. Progress Indicator- Creating and publishing a mobile website has never been easier than with Mojaba and now we’ve added a new set of visual aids to show you exactly where you are on the path to mobile goodness. The Progress Indicator guides you each step of the way from creating a Draft to Publishing your final masterpiece.

Functions for checking properly desktop site code installation and DNS configurations for custom domains take some of the mystery our of integration.

3. Checks for Mobile Detection Code and CNAME - While Mojaba is fun and easy to use, the world outside can be a little complicated. We’ve tried to make things just a little more convenient by adding some check functions. The Mobile Detection check will ensure that the appropriate Mojaba JavaScript or WordPress plug-in is working to route mobile users from the desktop to Mojaba website. The CNAME check verifies that Domain Name Service (DNS) changes to support a custom domain (such as “m.mydomain.com”) are properly set.

4. Revised Smartphone Mapping – If your Mojaba site has multiple locations, some revisions to how these are shown will make it even more convenient for your users. The display of map pins has been enhanced as well as improved navigation on the panel that contains the map.

And Over 24 Fixes and Tweaks – See the Version History in the Mojaba Summary page.

Available immediately for all Mojaba customers.

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  • Only pay for the sites you publish

What’s New in Mojaba 1.5

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mojaba 1.5 now availableThe team at Torsion Mobile is delighted to share our latest release of Mojaba, version 1.5. We’ve built in some major new features as well a dozens tweaks and changes – many based on user feedback. Take a look at the highlights and we look forward to your comments.

1. Slideshows – Show off photos and images in versatile mobile slideshows that work great and look fabulous.Slideshow auto-play, horizontal display, slide numbering and captions are all available. Mojaba slideshows support on-demand loading of images to reduce load times on smartphones. Captions show in a popup area which ensures the images are clearly seen.

mojaba mobile website slideshows

Create, edit and arrange slideshows with Mojaba's signature drag-and-drop, no-coding mobile website building tools.

mojaba accordion element for mobile websites

Display information compactly with the new Accordion Element

2. Accordion Element- The Accordion Element displays all types of content in a compact manner. Text, images, videos, maps and more can be placed in an Accordion. All accordion sections display as closed and when the user taps the Section Header, they expand to show the content.

3. Multi-Image Uploading – Save time by uploading many images at a time to the Mojaba Image Gallery.

4. Title Tag for SEO – Optimize your Mojaba mobile website by adding a Title Tag. Take advantage of Google’s newest indexing tool, the smartphone web crawler and ensure that mobile searchers find your site.

Choose which Locations will be displayed on maps.

5. Multiple Maps in the Same Website – We’ve expanded the mapping capability by enabling you to assign different Locations to different maps. Divide up locations into different categories and create their own maps and other location-specific listings.

6. jQuery Mobile 1.1 Integration – Mojaba mobile websites take advantage of updates in features, functions and performance enhancements found in the latest release of jQuery Mobile.

And Over 45 Fixes and Tweaks – See the Version History in the Mojaba Summary page.

Available immediately for all Mojaba customers.

Not a Mojaba Customer?

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  • No license fee
  • Build unlimited previews
  • Only pay for the sites you publish

Mojaba featured on Startup America Blog

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We’re thankful to have been included as a featured startup in the Startup America Blog this week. See the article below, or visit s.co to see the original post. And thanks to everyone at Startup America for all their hard work in supporting our country’s startups.

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By Christian Gurney, Co-Founder of Torsion Mobile – Today’s Featured Startup America member. 

What inspired you to start your company?

By 2015 more people will access the web with a mobile device than a PC, but only 20% of websites are usable on a smartphone. Mobile technology offers immense business opportunity, particularly globally. More Africans have access to mobile phones than to clean drinking water, according to Nielsen research.

“This is the biggest technological shift in the history of man,” said Gurney to the Des Moines Register in March 2012. 

Tell us something unique about you and your co-founder(s)?

Both of us have non-traditional backgrounds for a tech startup. Christian studied Archaeology in college and lived with Bushman groups in the Kalahari Desert. Co-founder Richard Kirsner has studio art and business degree. And both of us have been in tech for decades.

Our age (48 and 65) is also a little unique relative to our peers, but in line with what the Kauffman Group has shown – most founders are older than people typically think. We like to say that we’ve already made a lot of mistakes in our careers and we’re unlikely to make the same ones again. The balance of our employees are a lot younger, but we have a great mix to understand emerging technology and our customers and still have experience and maturity in the leadership.

What problem does your product or service solve?

Our product, Mojaba, helps creative professionals build mobile web sites for their clients faster, with more device compatibility and at a more affordable price – all without needing to learn programming or web coding.

What are your startup’s three biggest challenges to growth?

Getting traction with a wider customer base, finding the right mix of marketing channels to reach prospects and securing capital to accelerate our growth.

How will Startup America help your startup grow?

By encouraging a community of startups both locally and nationally, we get to interact with other founders tackling the same problems. We’ve also used some of the services targeted to startups and that’s helped manage our expenses.


Co-Founders, Christian Gurney and Richard Kirsner with our (very pumped) CEO Scott Case at Startup City.

Check out their product: 

Torsion Mobile is excited to announce the release of our new product, Mojaba. Mojaba is an intuitive Software-as-a-Service tool that enables creative professionals to build beautiful and effective mobile websites for their clients. We’ve been hard at work for over a year getting the system ready, and we’re excited to present it to the public.

After following the mobile trends, we’re certain that 2012 will be a year with an intense focus on mobile — mobile searching, advertising, commerce and Internet browsing will be key players this year. We want to help creative agencies embrace this shift and bring their clients into the age of mobile. To do that, we’ll provide cutting-edge features and services exclusively to marketers, advertisers, web designers and other creative professionals.

Mojaba has a simple drag-and-drop interface that allows agencies to build mobile websites quickly and easily. With Mojaba, agencies can organize by client and build multiple website drafts. Mojaba features include video, image linking, click-to-call, click-to-email, and find nearest (and nearest open) locations. Every element in Mojaba is customizable, for complete design flexibility, and Mojaba’s back-end, geo-location analytics are faster and more powerful than location tracking from Google Analytics.

Mojaba’s agency-only focus is important. There’s plenty of competition selling mobile websites (and website builders) to the end user. So we want to go beyond. By working only with agencies, we can provide not only a platform to build mobile websites, but also a database of materials to help agencies sell mobile to their clients. We have services to help agencies get the most out of Mojaba — we’re constantly updating the system, and we take comments and suggestions from our agency partners very seriously. In future releases of Mojaba, we’ll continue to provide the best mobile solutions in the market as well as the tools that agencies need to make their clients successful on the mobile web.

We have a very talented team of developers and designers with a penchant for building new and innovative features. “If we can dream it, we can develop it,” as our chief technological officer says. Often, that leads to advances in a matter of weeks.

Mojaba is the first tool from Torsion Mobile, but we’re looking forward to developing it as a global tool and an open door to exciting mobile solutions in the years to come.

Learn more:
Region: Startup Iowa
Mojaba:  www.mojaba.com
Team: www.torsionmobile.com

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What’s New in Mojaba 1.4: Web Fonts and Home Screen Icons

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We’re excited to bring you the next round of updates from the Mojaba front lines. Check out the new stuff we have in store for Mojaba 1.4:

Web fonts give you more typeface flexibility.

1. Web Fonts. Now you can preview hundreds of fonts from the Google Web Fonts library and select the ones to use in your mobile site.

Home Screen Icons let users bookmark a website straight to their phone's home screen.

2. Upload Home Screen Icon. Upload an image that users will see if they bookmark your client’s website to the home screen of their phone. You choose the image, we’ll format it to appear nicely on a user’s home screen. See our help system for best practices on choosing an appealing home screen icon.

3. Tweet for Help Button in AppBuilder. Now you can send us a tweet for help straight from the Mojaba AppBuilder. We’ll report back with a solution ASAP.

4. Updated Analytics. We’ve updated our analytics to be faster and easier to read. As always, we’re improving Mojaba to be faster and more powerful.

Download Torsion Mobile’s New Guide: “Build Mobile Websites For Your Clients and Profits for You.”

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Download your FREE guide today

At Torsion Mobile, we want to give you the tools and tips to help show your clients it’s time to go mobile. So we’ve created a guide: “Build Mobile Sites for Your Clients and Profits for You.”

The guide is a companion to our mobile website design system, Mojaba. It explains the current mobile trends and gives you the tools to start the mobile conversation with your clients — and build a a sleek and effective mobile presence once you’ve earned their business. Whether you’re just getting started with mobile or you’re already building sites, this guide can help you implement a successful mobile strategy.

Inside, you’ll find:

1. How the shift to mobile is impacting businesses, consumers and marketers.
2. Why there have been barriers to mobile marketing up to now.
3. How to show your client they need a mobile website.
4. How to use Google Analytics to track mobile bounce rates and interpret points where your clients can improve on mobile.
5. How to discuss mobile best practices with your client.
6. Why maps are important for your mobile website.
7. How to deliver a mobile solution for your client.
8. How to add value to your client’s mobile site now and in the future.
9. How to make money with mobile — and Mojaba.

Download your FREE guide today at www.mojaba.com/mobileguide!

 

Release Notes: Mojaba 1.2 Offers Powerful New Design Capabilities

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We’ve had a busy few weeks at Mojaba, and we’ve been working hard to bring you the biggest update yet. In the new Mojaba 1.2, you can customize nearly every element and see more analytics than ever before. Here’s a list of the what’s new in version 1.2. Click on the links to get a detailed run-down in the Mojaba help system.

  • NEW FEATURE: Element Theming. You can now edit each element’s background, size, text, margins and borders individually, giving you powerful design capabilities.
  • NEW FEATURE: Custom Headers and Footers. You can display (or not display) a standard or custom header and footer on each panel. For custom headers and footers, you choose the elements that appear on each page.
  • NEW FEATURE: Nav Bar. The nav bar can hold up to five buttons in a horizontal row — similar to a desktop site’s nav bar. You can use this tool for easy navigation around your site.
  • NEW FEATURE: Grid Element. Create up to three columns on your website for more variety. You can lay elements side by side, avoiding the “stacked” feel with a vertical-only approach.
  • UPDATE: Text Element. Now you can change your text color and place images within a block of text with text wrap. You can also pop out the text editor for a larger workspace.
  • NEW FEATURE: Send Instructional Emails. Send an instructional email to your tech team on how to insert JavaScript code into the desktop site’s head tag, and how to set up a subdomain CNAME in the DNS.
  • NEW FEATURE: Google Analytics Tracking Support. See your Mojaba site traffic within Google Analytics using a Google Analytics Tracking ID.
  • NEW FEATURE: Save as Draft from AppBuilder. Save a current version of your site as a draft for future use.
  • UPDATE: Analytics. See total visits, visits by time of day, and length of visit. You can also tell which mobile device operating system accessed the site as well as where users were when they dial or ask for directions in relation to the client’s locations. We also show data the panels viewed and buttons clicked.

Thank you for your feedback over the last few weeks. It has been instrumental in releasing these new features and updates. Enjoy version 1.2, and let us know if you have any questions!

Faster is Better: See How a Quick-Loading Mobile Site Can Make You Money

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Compuware Gomez recently released a white paper on the growth of mobile — and specifically how the speed of your mobile site affects your page views. Since 15 to 30 percent of your website traffic now comes from mobile this year, we hope you’ll take a look.

Graph from Gomez.

It’s better to be fast than slow. A 15-second page load results in nearly 30 percent of users abandoning your site — meaning they don’t even see your landing page before they hightail it to another site (probably your mobile-savvy competitor’s). Sixty percent of mobile users expect a website to load in five seconds or less.

Reduce load times by reducing big files, avoiding large photos and serving content via a CDN, which serves up content physically closer to your user. (Example: If your server is in Virginia, use a CDN to deliver content to a California user in California. Don’t make them wait for the content to arrive from Virginia.)

Faster websites work: If you can get your mobile website to load 100 milliseconds faster, you’ll see a 1 percent increase in revenue. And pages with faster load times gets a 12-percent-increase in ad clickthrough rates. That is a powerful millisecond.

And as you can see below, users expect a lot from mobile websites, but they’re not getting it yet. YOU can be the one to help your clients deliver those expectations. And users remember a great mobile experience. With a user-friendly mobile site, your client can earn a good reputation with customers and get more business. That means you’re the hero.

Chart from Gomez.

Mojaba can help you get faster load times. We automatically resize your images for you (so they’re nice and small — file-size-wise — but they still look great. We also use a CDN to deliver content faster and have materials to help you learn how to build fast and efficient websites. Check out mojaba.com to sign up today.

What’s New with Mojaba 1.2

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When we rolled out the first two versions of Mojaba, we knew there were new features and elements to add. Over the past month, our users have given us great feedback and we’re excited to deliver the most extensive rollout of design features yet in this week’s release. With Mojaba 1.2, you’ll be able to customize virtually every aspect of your mobile site, from text color to button styling to the number of columns on your mobile website. Here are some of the highlights:

New features in Mojaba 1.2 allow for more design flexibility.

New Design Flexibility
The thing we’re most excited about is the design power in version 1.2. You can now individually edit each element — so if you want to make the Call Now button bright red, you can do that.

Nav Bar
The nav bar can hold up to five buttons in a horizontal row — just like on a desktop site. Use this tool for easy navigation around your site.

Grid Element
Create up to three columns on your website for more variety. You can lay elements side by side, avoiding the “stacked” feel with a vertical-only approach.

Headers and Footers
We’ve included the option for you to display (or not display) the header and footer on each panel. You can set the header/footer elements globally by clicking the “Edit Header & Footer” button at the top of the web builder and add images, text, buttons, etc., that will appear on every panel. Then determine which panels you’d like to display your custom header/footers on, or opt for the default header/footer.

Updated Text Element
Last time around, we gave you the option to resize the font size. Now you can set the color of text and place images within a block of text — with text wrap. You can float an image to the left, right or center by double clicking on it after you’ve placed it in the text element. You can also change the image width with a convenient slider tool. The best part — you can now pop out the text editor for a larger workspace.

The expanded text editor gives you more room to work and allows you to insert pictures into your text element.

Analytics
We’ve got new views in the Analytics tab:

  • First, you can see total visits, visits by time of day, mobile device operating system and length of visit.
  • Second, you can now click on a phone number or location to see where users were when they dialed or asked for directions.
  • Third, we’ve got content usage reports on which panels were viewed, which buttons were clicked and whether visitors used the click-to-email buttons.
  • And lastly, now there a location indicator on all maps shows a green inverted pentagon shape that corresponds with the location(s) associated with the website, which provides context for where a user was in relation to the location(s).

Watch for all these new features when we roll out Mojaba 1.2 later this week!

Mojaba featured in Silicon Prairie News

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Silicon Prairie News

Our friends at SPN wrote an article on the launch of Mojaba: “Torsion Mobile, a Des Moines-based startup building mobile solutions for creative professionals, released its first product, Mojaba, in early February with the mission to make mobile websites easier to build. . .”

Thanks to Macy Koch and the SPN gang! Read the entire Silicon Prairie News article here.