I took up an interesting job this August - to completely redesign from scratch using drupal cms, our company website Sree Murugan Tile Works! When I created the site during 2004, I did it too as a DIY site, with HTML and some PHP code for layout. I chose plain, clean and no-fuss design. Just a few products were listed.
Now I wanted to develop the new site in parallel without disturbing the existing site. I chose to register a new domain name tileworks.in - so that I can redirect to sree-murugan.tileworks.in. I registered the domain with GoDaddy and added a hosting account. Installing Drupal 8 was a breeze, GoDaddy's cpanel let me choose my required PHP version.
Back in 2004 when I created my company website, people visited websites from computers. Mobile or tablet users were practically non-existent. Today, after 12 years, the world has transformed beyond recognition! Here is the data from Google Analytics: 88% visits from mobile and tablet! Users using Computers are just 12%.
Designing for mobile is entirely different: accommodating to smaller screens, layout that responds to screen orientation changes etc. I tested Bootstrap theme for Drupal. Though very promising, I wanted to keep coding to the minimum. So I chose Adaptive theme which is specifically for people who are shy of editing theme files. The on-screen configuration supported by Adaptive Theme proved to be a good scaffolding until I developed the courage to edit the theme code and css!
Once the new site was developed enough, I redirected the old domain mspvtiles.com to tileworks.in - the new site for Sree Murugan Tile Works is online! Please do visit the site and drop your comments!
Now I wanted to develop the new site in parallel without disturbing the existing site. I chose to register a new domain name tileworks.in - so that I can redirect to sree-murugan.tileworks.in. I registered the domain with GoDaddy and added a hosting account. Installing Drupal 8 was a breeze, GoDaddy's cpanel let me choose my required PHP version.
Back in 2004 when I created my company website, people visited websites from computers. Mobile or tablet users were practically non-existent. Today, after 12 years, the world has transformed beyond recognition! Here is the data from Google Analytics: 88% visits from mobile and tablet! Users using Computers are just 12%.
Designing for mobile is entirely different: accommodating to smaller screens, layout that responds to screen orientation changes etc. I tested Bootstrap theme for Drupal. Though very promising, I wanted to keep coding to the minimum. So I chose Adaptive theme which is specifically for people who are shy of editing theme files. The on-screen configuration supported by Adaptive Theme proved to be a good scaffolding until I developed the courage to edit the theme code and css!
Once the new site was developed enough, I redirected the old domain mspvtiles.com to tileworks.in - the new site for Sree Murugan Tile Works is online! Please do visit the site and drop your comments!
