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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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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.

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  • Build unlimited previews
  • Only pay for the sites you publish

Mojaba to sponsor SOBCon May 4-6 in Chicago

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We’re pleased to announce that we are sponsors for this year’s SOBCon event in Chicago. Every year, SOBCon brings together some of the most well-known and respected voices in business and media for a weekend of learning and networking. We’re excited to connect with speakers like Chris Brogan, Laura Fitton, Gary W. Goldstein, Steve Farber and others, and to meet all of this year’s attendees! Here’s more about the event, from their Eventbrite page:

SOBCon Chicago 2012 is one of the best learning forums for small businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs in the US.

The theme this year is Creating and Leveraging Opportunity: Strategy and Execution. We’ll be discussing and applying qualitative and quantitative critical thinking. We’ll focus on the seven keys to strategy and execution: Mission & Vision, Position, Conditions, Decisions, Networks, and Systems. Each presentation, model, and mastermind session will change the way you see yourself and your business. The interactive sessions will keep you in the room.

Christian will be attending SOBCon from May 4-6, so if you’re going, be sure to stop by and see him. We’ve also built a stellar mobile site for the event, complete with speaker bios and location info, which you can see by visiting m.sobevent.com on your mobile device.

Learn more about SOBCon at sobevent.com, or follow them on Facebook or Twitter.

 

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.

What’s New in Mojaba 1.3

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Mojaba is better than ever, with the release of version 1.3. We’ve added important elements like video capabilities and image links (yay image links!) to round out our collection of features. Check out what’s new in Mojaba 1.3:

You can now link images to other panels or outside links.

1. You can now link images. Link any image to a panel within your mobile site, or link them to outside URLs. You can also link images to a desktop site (it will bypass the mobile version and take a user to the desktop format). And, of course, you can choose the target for each link (open in the existing browser or a new window).

Embed a YouTube or Vimeo video straight into your Mojaba panel, with only the URL.

2. You can embed videos in Mojaba. We support YouTube and Vimeo links, and the video appears in a nice key frame with a “play” icon over it (unless you choose to hide it). When a user clicks the video, it plays in the phone’s native video player. And it’s simple — all you need is the URL. Mojaba handles the rest.

3. New analytics. We’ve updated the analytics so you can see how many people click on the “Full Website” link in the default footer of your Mojaba site. We’ve also improved the performance of all our GeoAnalytics mapping views and removed the geo-coordinates — for clarity.

4. Updated Image Gallery. Now you’ll see a progress bar in the image center to indicate the time it takes to upload a new image. And now, after an image uploaded, it is automatically selected for your convenience.

5. Add a Subject to the Click-to-Email Element. You can now include a corresponding subject to your click-to-email buttons.

See the new changes in depth in our help system (for registered Mojaba users only).

And to sign up today for your FREE account, visit mojaba.com/signup.


Bands are Behind on Mobile (an Infographic)

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Musicians are surprisingly behind when it comes to going mobile — this infographic, put together by Mashable in preparation for SXSW says nearly 91 percent of band websites provide a poor mobile experience.

But for big music festivals and other on-the-go events where users hear about many bands for the first time, it’s extremely important to offer good information to a mobile user. More fans, more merchandise sales, and more ticket sales next time the band comes to their hometown. A good mobile site is a key part of discovery and relationship-building when it comes to garnering new fans.

And check out the common complaints (from users) near the bottom. Though they’re specifically talking about band websites, you can bet they say the same things about other mobile websites — maybe even your clients’ mobile sites. Rock on, dude. Go mobile. (See a bigger version of the infographic here.)

P.S. Don’t use ShareSquare. Use Mojaba. It’s better, we promise. Check out all the cool new features in version 1.2, and go to www.mojaba.com to sign up for your account today.

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!

Torsion Mobile and Mojaba Featured in the Business Record

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Torsion Mobile and Mojaba were featured in the latest issue of the Business Record. The article featured three Iowa companies who are solving business inefficiencies.

“One of the keys is to be deeply knowledgeable about the domain where you’re trying to solve the problem. You can’t just say, ‘We are going to create mobile websites’ without knowing what the current state of the art is, what the competition is doing, what the trends are and having a real deep understanding of what it’s going to take.” —Christian Gurney.

Read the full article on the Business Record’s website.

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.