I was a few minutes early for a meeting with a client the other day and since I was early, I decided to check email on my iPhone. There was a message from another client asking if I could make a quick change on the WordPress website I had just designed for her. My first impulse was to wait until I returned to my desktop computer at the office before making the change, but since I had a few extra minutes to kill, I decided to pull up the WordPress dashboard on my iPhone.

I was pleasantly surprised to find that the new WordPress dashboard looked great on the iPhone’s display, and within a few clicks, I had pulled up the edit window, made the change and saved the page.

The newly-redesigned tabs at the top of the dashboard are perfectly positioned, with room to spare. The buttons are also perfectly suited to the “touch” interface of the iPhone, and I never hit a function accidentally. When I clicked the text within the edit window, the iPhone keyboard popped up and the screen zoomed in nicely on the text I was editing.

I’m sure it’s no accident that the new WordPress dashboard looks and functions so nicely on the iPhone. So hats off to the incredible design team of Happy Cog — Jeffrey Zeldman, Jason Santa Maria, and Liz Danzico — on their innovative redesign of the WordPress interface!

As a one-man web design shop, it’s a relief to know that I can provide support to my clients from anywhere, using just my iPhone.

(And no, I didn’t create this post from my iPhone. But I could have!)