iPhone

If you’ve looked after a Drupal website for any length of time you’ll know that you should regularly update modules, themes and most importantly the Drupal core as-and-when updates become available – security updates, at the very least. The Update Status module (now in core) is great for summarising what needs updating (if you haven’t enabled that module, you really should do), but if you really want to stay on top of those updates then there’s a fairly simple way in which you can get them sent to your iPhone (or indeed iPad) as a push notification.

With a few handy contributed modules, creating a mobile version of a Drupal website can be surprisingly painless. In this series of posts, I’ll run through one approach for doing so, using a few of those modules and themes.

There's certainly a big buzz right now about responsive web design; flexible layouts that adapt dynamically to the user's device and its capabilities; screen size, resolution and so on. One of the major uses for this technique - a combination of flexible grids, resizeable images and CSS media queries - is as a mechanism for creating a mobile version of a site. And it's a very useful approach - dynamically changing the layout according to your device's capabilities enables content to be re-structured for the small screen with little effort.