Premium Responsive

Premium Responsive was the first theme I built where the responsive behaviour came first. Everything before it started as a fixed-width design that I then taught to shrink; this one starts from four distinct layouts — desktop, tablet, large phone, small phone — and lets the content pick the one that fits.

It carries eleven block regions, FlexSlider for the front-page slideshow, multi-level multilingual drop-down menus, and integration with Drupal core's Color module shipping two prepared schemes. The Color module support mattered more than it sounds: it is the difference between a site owner recolouring their own site in the admin UI and filing an issue asking me to do it for them.

Eight releases across sixteen months, all on the 7.x-1.x branch. The bulk of the issue traffic was not about the layout at all — it was about the slideshow, which is what happens when the one piece of your theme carrying third-party JavaScript is also the piece every installer touches first. If I were building it now the slider would be a separate, optional module and the theme would ship without it.

Designing for four layouts rather than one is also where I first met the problem that dominates white-label work: the same content has to look deliberate at every size, under settings you do not control, on a device you have never seen. A theme solves that with breakpoints. A platform solves it with configuration, and the surface area is enormously larger.