This year we’ll be producing a series of BraveNewCode t-shirts featuring designs by four visual artists from across the continent. A limited number of shirts will be produced of each artist’s design and released in the spring, summer, fall and winter of 2012.

Our first BraveNewCode t-shirt featuring one of the artists’ designs will be ready in early February. Attendees at WordCamp SanDiego in March will be amongst the first to view the new shirt.

BraveNewCode is excited and proud to showcase four talented artists in our 2012 t-shirt series. Keep an eye on our website, Facebook and Twitter channels for your chance to nab yourself a nifty, new BraveNewCode shirt.

We’re pleased to announce the addition of a new advertising option into WPtouch 1.9.x – Appstores.

Appstores and WPtouch

Unlike many advertising options that typically advertise websites, products or services, Appstores allows publishers to advertise mobile-specific applications which can be downloaded onto an end-user’s phone. Here’s a description of how it works from Appstore’s site:

Is your website optimized for mobile? Yes? Great, you can make more money by recommending apps. Here’s how it works: we look at the content of your mobile site, and we surface the most relevant apps. Users love it because they get highly relevant apps. You’ll love it, because the engagement will be higher than vanilla mobile banners. Developers will love it because for once, they are getting relevant app downloads. Everyone wins.

This is an exciting new area for mobile advertising, and BraveNewCode is proud to be a launching partner with the Appstores team.

The changes have already been incorporated into the WPtouch 1.9.x codebase, so you can update to it immediately and try out the new Appstores advertising option. We’ll also be incorporating this new advertising option in WPtouch Pro soon, so look for that in the near future.

We are looking for a Support Guru – someone to assist customers in our Pro (commercial plugin) forums for our products (WPtouch Pro, WordTwit Pro and Piggy Pro). The Support Guru works along with our other support staff to provide excellent customer care, and help solve problems for customers using our products.

If you are a passionate, personable individual, who has experience with our products; is familiar with PHP, CSS, and JavaScript; and possesses a strong work ethic, we’d love to hear from you.

Visit our Current Jobs page for more information about the position and to apply.

About us

• BraveNewCode is an innovative company whose plugins have been downloaded and used by millions of individuals and businesses
• Our team members are currently spread out between Los Angeles, the Toronto and Vancouver areas in Canada, and even as far away as Argentina
• Everyone at BraveNewCode works remotely; we mostly collaborate using online tools and communications platforms, such as Skype
• We’ve helped organize several WordPress WordCamp conferences (including WordCamp Vancouver and WordCamp Whistler), and have attended and spoken at various conferences in the WordPress community and beyond

Soon we’ll pass 3 million downloads of WPtouch, the most popular and easy-to-use mobile plugin for WordPress. We expect to cross the mark sometime in the next few weeks!

To celebrate we’re giving away a 32GB iPhone 4S in your choice of white or black!

We’ll draw a winner and make an announcement on Twitter and our blog. If you’re the selected winner, we’ll contact you on Twitter.

Good luck to all entrants!

The contest is now closed. We’ll draw the winner soon.

*Prize is available to North American and EU residents only.

Recently Google began the GoMo initiative, an online campaign to increase awareness of the importance of having a mobile-specific version of your website for your visitors.

WHAT IS A MOBILE SITE AND WHY DO YOU NEED ONE?
Just because you can see your desktop site on a mobile phone doesn’t mean it’s mobile-friendly. Mobile sites are designed for the small screen, with the needs of mobile users in mind. A mobile-friendly site can help your business connect with customers and drive conversions.

The GoMo website includes useful information and powerful statistics to show you why going mobile should be an important part of your online business plan & future.

It will also allow you to test your website, and will give you a ranking of 1-4 in terms of the quality of the mobile experience you’re offering visitors.

Lastly it provides a small, non-WordPress list of vendors that assist in building mobile sites. We’re not yet listed, but that will likely change, and folks like us will be included.

Adwords Quality Score Now Affected by Mobile Sites

Google also recently announced that mobile site optimization now affects your AdWords Quality Score. This means that serving ads to mobile visitors with a mobile-optimized website will earn you a higher rank.

The AdWords system will automatically visit your landing page, and evaluate your site as viewed by smartphones. However, if you already have a mobile site, we recommend confirming with your webmaster that you’ve configured your server to show the mobile-optimized site when the AdWords mobile User-Agent is detected.

So in both cases, WPtouch & WPtouch Pro powered WordPress websites score perfect and will help you both with your business presence online in an increasingly mobile ‘webscape’, while also improving your Adwords quality & revenue.