GUI iPhone web app builder like iWeb

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GUI iPhone web app builder like iWeb

Does anyone know if someone has built a GUI iPhone web app builder?

I am very interested in building an iPhone site in conjunction with the development of my new site http://www.thecutsquad.com , my main interest in this is so that there is an optimized site for the iphone without having to load all of the rich media which I will be hosting.

So if I could build an iPhone specific website like http://app.getleaflets.com/ where I can host content media optimized for iPhone viewing over EDGE and people who are browsing using the iSafari (is that what we are calling it these days?) are redirected automatically without having to type in a specific web address, although I do not mind having a sub-domain which hosts this.

So, anyone know of anything, or is anyone interested in helping with the development of such an application?

Thanks a ton,

Gabe

PS - sorry this doesn't have a ton to do with iWeb, but I thought it would be cool to make something that was just as easy to use as iWeb, but to build custom sites for the iPhone. If you ever check out http://developer.apple.com/iphone/designingcontent.html you can see that there would be specific differences which iWeb currently does not implement.

Black MacBook (Fully Loaded), iPhone 8GB, Mac OS X (10.4.10), iPod vid 60GB, iPod nano 2GB

Posted on Aug 11, 2007 3:59 PM

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Tom Gewecke

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Aug 12, 2007 3:38 AM in response to Gabe 5 Editor

Does anyone know if someone has built a GUI iPhone web app builder?

Places to look might be:

http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=201

http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev

http://forums.macrumors.com/forumdisplay.php?f=105

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Alancito

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Aug 12, 2007 3:52 AM in response to Gabe 5 Editor

Here's a free iPhone web simulator for designers...

http://www.marketcircle.com/iphoney/

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Gabe 5 Editor Author

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Aug 12, 2007 9:06 AM in response to Gabe 5 Editor

Thanks guys, already aware of all of those sites and discussions, looking for a web building application that is similar to iWeb, except that it builds web 2.0 pages.

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Tom Gewecke

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Aug 12, 2007 10:55 AM in response to Gabe 5 Editor

a web building application that is similar to iWeb, except that it builds web 2.0 pages.

I'm not sure that phrase has much concrete meaning. For the iPhone you often essentially try create the "javascript in a web page" equivalent of a desktop app. You get the javascript from libraries or compose it yourself with a text editor, and integrate it into the html created by any web editor.

Here is an example I happen to be familiar with, a virtual keyboard for other languages, where you can examine the source (to get everything, download as a webarchive and folderize it).

http://pointatme.com/keyboards/

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Gabe 5 Editor Author

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Aug 12, 2007 2:02 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

I meant a webpage building application, something that is simple and easy to use. I might not understand the difference between javascript, web 2.0 or Ajax, so no, it's not a concrete statement. But an app like this would help people, like myself, create websites in the same manner as we do now within iWeb, but specific for the iphone.

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Gabe 5 Editor Author

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Aug 19, 2007 8:00 PM in response to Gabe 5 Editor

I found what I need, the spry framework for ajax in Dreamweaver CS3 has done the trick for me, now apple just needs to throw this into iWeb and we're good to go!

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