Elgg 1.9 will ship with with a beautiful, responsive theme by Per Jensen. Please check out the demo and tell us what you think!
Per is the author of several responsive Elgg themes and is perhaps most well known for his plugin Mobilize. He writes the following about the new theme:
Evan Winslow from Elgg asked a few months ago if I would be interested in using my experience with mobile Elgg designs to incorporate a solution into Elgg core. I would of course love to and we agreed that I should go ahead with the idea.
I made a few suggestions, a responsive redesign of Elgg’s default theme and a separate plugin. After an interesting and constructive dialogue with Elgg’s core team, it was decided that the best solution would be a responsive Elgg theme as a bundled plugin.
The theme will be included in Elgg 1.9 and is named Aalborg Theme, after my hometown. My goal have been to design a fully responsive mobile-first layout and to give Elgg a slightly fresher color palette.
It has been a pleasure and an exciting challenge to create the theme and I’m happy to contribute in this manner. I think it’s awesome that the people behind Elgg decided to support smaller screens out of the box.
Hope you like Elgg 1.9 with Aalborg theme.
Thanks so much to Per for this great contribution! We encourage all Elgg themers to follow his lead and make your themes responsive by default.
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You don't need any additional plugins to make it work.
Thank you Pawel. And Thanks to Per Jensen for this attractive theme.
Mobilize checks the user agent and kicks in if you are on a mobile device. With mobilize your normal theme is still used, it's just presented with a different layout and a few other changes on mobile devices.
Responsive design, like Aalborg theme in 1.9, can adapt itself on different screen sizes regardless of the device, scale down you browser size to check it out. As Pawel says, you should not use mobilize with Aalborg theme.
I've set up a temporary demo here, Aalborg theme.
@inca : yes you dont have to..
@elgg team : Very clean elgg default theme love it :)