Year after year, the mobile phone industry continues to expand with 2014 being no different. According to a recent study, it is estimated that 63.5% of the global population have a mobile phone. To put that into real numbers, approximately 4.55 billion people currently own a mobile phone. Not surprisingly, that number is expected to increase to a whopping 5.13 billion by 2017.
Considering the global trend in the mobile phone market, it is imperative that your website provides these users with an optimal viewing experience. The first step to doing this is by building your site with a responsive Drupal theme.
Below we have compiled the 10 best mobile themes that will provide your readers with an awesome browsing experience, regardless if they are using an iMac, a laptop, tablet or an ancient cell phone from 1999. 🙂
(Note: You can also check out our growing list of Responsive Drupal Themes)
1) OS Flat Pixel – Drupal Modern Flat Theme
FP Pixel is a modern theme designed with flat elements giving it the perfect look for creative agencies, online businesses and any other small business. It is jam packed with features including a responsive slideshow and image gallery, built in social sharing buttons and is SEO optimized to help get your business to the top of the search engines.
View Theme Page: OS Flat Pixel
2) Flat Classifieds – Drupal Classified Ads Theme
Get your Drupal classified ads website up and running in a matter of minutes with the Flat Classified Drupal Theme. It is fully responsive and built on the famous Bootstrap 3 framework. It also includes a faceted search feature, Google Map options, private messages, PayPal integration and even a lightbox feature to show off the images for each classified ad.
This is the ultimate theme for creating your own classified ad website on Drupal and comes with a ton of great features like Drag and Drop blocks/regions using Panels and many other really nice additions.
View Theme Page: Drupal Classified Ads Theme
3) NewsCenter Drupal Theme
Perfect for creating blogs, magazines, newspaper websites or your own article community. This fully responsive Drupal 7 theme creates a special layout with different features for users on a variety of devices including iPhone, Android, tablets or desktops.
Spreading the word about your website is easy with the hundreds of built in social media functions and the SEO optimized code that comes standard with NewsCenter.
View Theme Page: NewsCenter Drupal Theme
4) Astrum Responsive Drupal Theme
Astrum was created with business people in mind. Especially business people who don’t want a boring website. The clean and minimal design allows for your work to take center stage.
Besides being ultra responsive, Astrum is also optimized for retina displays (used for iPhones, iPads and Macs) ensuring your clients get the best experience from your website.
View Theme Page: Astrum Drupal Theme
5) Sencillo 3 in 1
Sencillo means “Simple” in Spanish which is fitting as this theme offers a clean and effective way to display your creative portfolio, within minutes. It comes with 3 different theme variants as well as 3 slider variants each with 27 effects. All the variants are fully responsive and fully optimized to enhance the user experience.
View Theme Page: Sencillo 3 in 1
6) ProVideo – Video Drupal Theme
ProVideo is a simple and clean theme allowing you to showcase your videos without the distracting clutter. Don’t let the simplicity fool you though as this theme is chalked full of features. It has full social media integration, custom Google fonts, a WYSIWG editor, Lightbox features and gravatar integration.
This theme uses all the popular video players including JW Player, FlowPlayer and HTML 5 Player. As well, you can easily and effortlessly embed videos from YouTube and Vimeo. In short, this is the theme your video website so desperately needs.
View Theme Page: ProVideo Drupal Theme
7) Magnetto
This multi-page parallax portfolio theme is ideal for creative agencies, freelancers or artists. It is 100% responsive and includes the premium Drupal layer slider making it look fantastic on any device.
Magnetto also provides the ability to upload your own music or easily embed videos from YouTube and Vimeo. If you are the creative type, this theme was designed with you in mind.
View Theme Page: Magnetto
8) PinBoard
PinBoard is one of the most feature-rich Pinterest clone themes you will ever find. It functions just like Pinterest and has about a mile long list of features. A few of the highlights include a pin bookmarklet button, repin counter, invitation system, Facebook and Twitter login integration, un-followers counter, ad placement options and so many more features that are almost too many to list here.
If you are looking to create a Pinterest style site, this is the only theme you will ever need.
View Theme Page: PinBoard Pinterest Clone
9) OS Underground – Drupal Ubercart Theme for eCommerce Websites
Looking to create an enjoyable experience for your online shoppers? Look no further than the OS Underground Drupal Theme. Based on Drupal 7 as well as the popular open source eCommerce solution, Ubercart, this theme will have you selling products faster than you can you can imagine.
This theme is fully SEO optimized, which will help your store rank higher in the search engines, while the social media integration features allows your customers to easily share their new purchases with the world.
View Theme Page: OS Underground Drupal eCommerce Theme
10) OS Photographer – Parallax One-Page Drupal 7 Theme
This one is for all the shutterbugs out there looking for a nice, clean creative and fully responsive portfolio theme to showcase their photos. This one-page parallax theme is built with Twitter Bootstrap ensuring your photos look just as great on a smart phone as they do on a desktop.
OS Photographer has built in social sharing features, a responsive gallery with various layouts, Google fonts and is fully SEO optimized.