Device support
Reaching to the masses.
During his keynote speech at Drupalcon Chicago in 2011, Dries Buytaert, the founder of Drupal, best summarised the importance of mobile devices for CMSs by observing that if he were to “start Drupal from scratch today, I’d build it for mobile experiences first, and desktop experience second.” This makes even more sense now that several recent studies have shown that upwards of 60 per cent users are relying on their mobile devices to access websites instead of desktops and laptops.
Responsive web design ensures that websites render well on a variety of devices. Since April 2015, Google now penalises nonmobile-friendly websites and pages. Thankfully, all the CMSs on our list enable you to create responsive websites. This means that they support the different elements such as responsive themes and images. The latter is important as otherwise the images won’t automatically scale to the screen size of the devices.
The CMSMadeSimple project hosts several mobile-ready themes and customisations. Community members also share their own custom responsive themes and configurations.
ExponentCMS similarly provides a number of themes designed for mobile devices. The project offers the Twitter Bootstrap Theme and also provides several modules that you can use to make your website mobile ready.
All the other projects featured here are conscious of the importance of mobile devices. Apart from free modules and themes, Joomla and Concrete5 both make available several commercial add-ons as well, to help you tweak your website for mobile platforms.