I want an iPhone. I want it bad. I can’t have one until December 28th ( …don’t get me started on why Rogers wont let me have one until then) but until then I will have to settle for stealing Adam’s every second he forgets to hide it.

My lovely web-designing, iPhone toting husband has attempted to placate my pining by helping me iPhone-ize sixthandelm.com. This involved creating a custom webclip icon for this site and informing me of a really handy Wordpress plug-in to make your blog iPhone-format friendly.

1. A webclip is similar to a favicon, for an iPhone. When your site is bookmarked as a menu item by anyone on an iPhone the webclip will automatically display instead of a standard safari bookmark icon. Below are the webclips Adam created for my site, his photoblog and the website for Wonderday.ca, a group started and run by Adam and some friends. He even listed a tutorial for creating your own and loading the file on your website so it is automatically recognized and displayed by iPhones.

2. WPTouch is the nicest mobile webpage formatter I have seen. It takes your site and makes it mobile friendly, easy to read on an iPhone. It acts as a Wordpress theme, with customizable colours and icons, but in actuality it is a Wordpress plug-in and set up and customized like any other plug-in on Wordpress. The extras are stripped and it presents a really clean list of your latest posts with a dropdown menu to view other pages on your site. It does not affect your blog appearance on regular computers, only the iPhone.

With the explosion of the mobile web, it is really important to have an easily navigable version of your site for people on the go. So now my site is iPhone-optimized and all I need is the damn phone.

A bonus tip from Adam on how he created the above screenshots of his phone for me:

A tip to get a screen grab of your iPhone (like shown above) simply hold down the home button and then click the lock button on the top of your phone once, and it will flash white and send the image to your camera roll in your phone.. where you can sync it up with your computer or simply email the pic to yourself.