its easy to turn your site into a universal app with no coding knowledge required.
simply follow these steps
1 download visual studio community 2015 and install, free
2 update with the nesacary windows 10 universal app functions (depending on net conection this might take longer then 10 minutes but once installed the actual app creation takes only 10 min)
3 open visual studio, create new project and choose javascript > windows > universal app
4 now we prepare our project, 1st by deleting all the folders except images, and delete default.html file so you should have 2 files and 1 folder left
5 click the package manifest file on the left a bunch of options show up, display name (name your app) url replace default.html with your url note, if you use ssl to login, you should use the ssl version of your url like https://www.dreadlockssite.com
6 click the content urls tab here you enter your urls you want to include in the app if you only want your www just enter https://www.dreadlockssite.com include and use the dropdown change to all
if you have subdomains click add url and add a wildcard like https://*.dreadlockssite.com note, if you have multi-level subdomains like shops.music.yoursite.com create a new url line with *.*.yoursite, doubt that applies to many of you but being thorough)
7 at this point your ready to test (but not publish yet) when you test it will require you to enable developer mode in windows 10, just click developer mode and its activated back in visual studio simply click the debug on local machine button, up pops your app, verify it works as expected
8 now click the images tab, add a logo background store logo etc (only 1 is needed from each section)
8 you will need to sign up for a Microsoft developer account, its just 20 bucks a year as an individual (200 as a business) once in your dashboard you 1st reserve an app name, upload the app package, then there well be something like 6 steps of info you need to provide like if you want to charge for the app or make it free etc
9 wait for verification and publish verification should take under an hour, publish to the stores supposed to take 24 hours after verification, but since its the early days of the app store its taking longer ...possibly 3 days
next step, for whoever can figure it out 1st, integrate with Cortana and alow the jractions to send toasts (notices to the notification center) when new activity happens on the site
if anyone figures that out post how you managed it here
lets keep this discussion going on further developing the apps to extend the capabilities
heres my 1st app!
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/dreadlocks-natural-dreads/9nblggh1rqw6
note I forgot the taskbar icon so a new versions being submitted now
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soaringeagle
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updated by @soaringeagle: 08/31/15 11:36:51PM
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