Sessions at Frontend United about Drupal 7

Friday 20th April 2012

• Workshop: Going Mobile First With Drupal

  by Jesper Wøldiche

  Building Drupal sites mobile first with lazy loading, responsive media and Varnish - without driving anyone insane. A combined session, technical overview, half-baked solution and hands-on workshop.

  Part I: Why Mobile First?
  An introduction to the mobile first approach and a quick walkthough of responsive webdesign principles and methods.

  Why mobile first
  Benefits
  Challenges
  Alternatives
  Part II: The challenges: lazy loading & responsive media
  A presentation of two core technical challenges for building (Drupal) sites mobile first: Lazy loading of content and responsive media.

  Requirements for a Drupal solution
  Common approaches for lazy loading?
  Different approaches for responsive images.
  Pitfalls and alternatives.
  Part III: Requirements for a Drupal solution
  A presentation and discussion of the requirements for a working Drupal solution for mobile first websites, including lazy, conditional loading of content, adaptive or responsive images that works with both logged in users and Varnish reverse proxy.

  Part IV: Hands-on design and development
  In which you start out by saying 'Oh, that's easy. You just ...'

  Hopefully we can design or - dare we say it - actually build a fully cooked, working Drupal solution for going mobile first.

  Bring out the obscure hooks and get your coding chops on!

  • Drupal 7
  • JavaScript
  • Lazy loading
  • Mobile First
  • Responsive Web Design

  At 1:00pm to 5:00pm, Friday 20th April

  In Pakhuis de Zwijger

  Coverage slide deck