Web Spiders QR Business Card Mobile Site

URL: http://qr.webspiders.com [Smart Phone  Only, please scan QR code to visit or enter the web address in your smart phone]

This Mobile site was developed using Codeigniter and is a database driven application, it is a Mobile Business Card solution, providing unique URL’s to each contact and displaying a personalised page for them. QR codes were then generated for each individual allowing a quick scan business card to appear and allow the visitor to bookmark at their leisure.

You may notice that the phone numbers on the image are in the international format with the “(0)” included, this can cause problems as Smart Phones recognise these phone numbers and allow you to click to dial that number, however in the UK at least if you try to dial +44 (0) 1234 56789, your call will simply fail as that is not a valid UK phone number, to get around this issue, use of the Smart Phone “tel:” tag was included. This allows us to have any text clickable to call a number of choice thus avoiding the problem. There is also an “sms:” tag which allows easy text messaging.

The contact form on the site was developed using HTML5 so that the input type was relevant to the data required, such as input types of text, email and tel. The use of which changes the Smart Phone input keyboard to the relevant one for that type of information.

There is also some jQuery error checking providing “alert()” popups to display errors using your mobile’s very own interface.

Stat information is collected using a combination of custom code, saving the information to the database, as well as Google Analytics for over all data. This data is then output in an administration panel and aggregated to show

• Who received the most hits
• and who received the most contact forms
• and by when