Responsive Business
Free Drupal theme · GPL-2.0-or-later
A mobile-first business and portfolio theme with an extended four-block footer and a captioned slideshow.
August 2012 — written for clients who had just discovered how much of their traffic was on a phone.
Responsive Business was aimed at exactly the moment its clients were living through in 2012: analytics had started showing a third of their visitors arriving on a phone, and the fixed-width site they had paid for the year before was unusable on one. The pitch was not "a beautiful theme". It was "you will stop losing the people who find you on mobile".
Structurally it is a one- or two-column layout across twelve block regions, with a captioned FlexSlider on the front page and an extended footer carrying four separate block regions. That footer was a deliberate concession to how small businesses actually use a CMS: opening hours, an address, a contact teaser and a social row all want to be editable by someone who will never open a template file.
Three releases over thirteen months. The interesting issue-queue traffic was almost entirely about the slideshow at narrow widths — captions overflowing images, images cropped in ways that removed the subject — which is the recurring lesson of responsive work. Layout scales down predictably; content does not, and the thing that breaks is always the piece where an editor supplies both an image and text and the two have to agree.
The drupal.org record for this theme points its documentation link at the Responsive Blog page rather than its own, a copy-paste error from 2012 that has sat there ever since. The legacy URL this page inherits is the responsive-business one that actually existed.
- Project page
- drupal.org/project/responsive_business
- Reported installs
- 323 sites report using it on drupal.org, as of August 2026
- Releases I shipped
- 3, August 2012 – September 2013
- On branches
- 7.x-1.x
Downloads, the full release history and the issue queue all live on the drupal.org project page. The other themes, and everything alongside them, are on the open-source index — and next from here: The platforms that work led to.
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