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Posted by delaney
delaney
7,743 Points

Mobile First and Drupal

I want to learn Drupal, but should it be 7 or 8? My main concern is sticking with a Mobile First approach. It seems Drupal 7 teaches you to take full screen sites to mobile, where as Drupal 8 is Mobile First. But is Drupal 8 in widespread use/demand as Drupal 7?

Which one to learn?

1 Answer

Tawny Bartlett
Tawny Bartlett
24,674 Points
Tawny Bartlett
Tawny Bartlett
24,674 Points

Hi Jenn,

Drupal 8 has definitely been built with mobile first in mind --- however so have a lot of themes in Drupal 7! All main themes in Drupal 7 will have mobile-first frameworks as that is the acceptable standard now. For example you could download the mobile first bootstrap theme for Drupal 7 and use that.

Drupal 8 is stable and usable but a lot of contributed modules have not been released as stable versions yet so a lot people are holding off. It depends what sort of features you want! :)

I hope you decide to learn Drupal! It has an amazing community and Drupal can do everything!

Thanks,

Tawny.

delaney
delaney
7,743 Points

Hi Tawny, Thanks for the feedback and letting me know about the mobile first bootstrap themes for Drupal 7!