Responsive Design

036 Sam Richard and the Aurora Base Theme - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Submitted on Wed, 09/05/2012 - 10:58

What’s the backstory behind Aurora?
What did you see missing from other base themes that made you decide to create another?
Aurora has awesome documentation! The download includes a pdf, and you’ve also put it out as a free ebook in the iBookstore. You’ve got to be the first theme developer to do that. What made you decide to do it?
There’s some installation on the development machine that needs to be done in order to use Aurora. Can you go over what some of those requirements are?
Ok, so what would you consider Aurora’s best feature? Or what makes it stand out from the rest?

The project page says Aurora has a companion module suite called Borealis? What is that?

Paul Johnson (@pdjohnson) wants to know:
- Why would someone choose Aurora over Omega?
- Do I need to be more of a Techy themer to use it?
- What is the learning curve like?
Tony Groff (@tgroff) had a few questions:
- Why is the project page dated March 16, 2007? The SASS theme hasn't been around that long. If he acquired the d.o/project namespace from a previous person, can he talk a little about that transition process of taking over the name?
- What is the Borealis Suite? Should I always be using Borealis with the Aurora theme?
- Please explain more about SASS "partials" and CSS abstraction. Is it the best practice to declare the .block-header class in both the _layout.scss partial, and the _design.scss partial?
- Talk about his involvement with - drupal.org/project/html5 ?

Submitted on Sun, 02/26/2012 - 17:00

Jeff Burnz talks about AdaptiveTheme and how you can use it to build custom responsive themes.

What exactly is AdaptiveTheme?
How does AdaptiveTheme change for different devices?
How easy is it to create a sub-theme for AdaptiveTheme?
I’ve seen Corolla demonstrated by Ryan Szrama in some of his Drupal Commerce videos. He said that he likes it a lot. What makes it so good?
What other sub-themes are available off the shelf that I can use in my Drupal site?

I asked, on Twitter, if anyone had any questions for you about responsive design and Drupal, and here are a few that I got back:

Paul Johnson (@pdjohnson): How do I sell responsive design to my clients?
Paul Johnson: What viewport widths do you work to?
Jon Stieglitz (@jonstieglitz): Can you talk about responsive vs. adaptive? And with that, would you explain the difference between the two?
Jon Stieglitz: What is best practice when dealing with images in responsive design?
Paul del signore (@pdelsignore): I think how images + imagecache is handled in adaptive would be cool to know

Follow me on Twitter (@ModsUnraveled) to ask your own questions!