The combination of Drupal admin theme tools we use to provide mobile administration also happens to make the user interface far more approachable.

Whether you're a traveling online entrepreneur, or just a hands-on executive who needs to be able to make minor content edits from a meeting on your phone, it's possible to setup Drupal 7 to work with your mobile device administration needs. One of the greatest features of modern CMS is the ability to administer the system over the web from any location (which also happens to be its greatest security concern). The Daymuse website itself is in fact one such needy customer. Not only do our clients often want to have the ability for users to browse the anonymous, public portion of the website from mobile devices, but often they need to be able to add or edit content from one as well. Mobile devices have taken a large chunk of web traffic: webmasters want to be able to administer their Drupal sites from smaller screened devices like Tablets and Smartphones. The Seven administration theme, part of Drupal Core, has shown its age since Drupal 7's introduction years ago. Drupal 7's administration interface and theme leaves much to be desired. * Bar formatting, not implemented, but we may want this in the future. At the very least, you'll want to include the top four in this list as they are the colors used in the toolbar bar and tray extensively: Color You will always want to try to follow core as best practice, so it stands to reason you'll need to include some of these colors by default. So, before you decide which colors you need to produce, it's helpful to have a simple table that walks us through all the different color possibilities that comes with Drupal 8. But it’s a small price to pay for having a system that only needs to load specific images vs. All the available icons are in this folder:ĭid you notice that all the folders in the icons are hexadecimal colors? Remember, we’re not using an icon font, so changing their color in CSS is a non-starter. Lots to talk about.īefore jumping into creating an icon, let’s look at how icons are used in Drupal 8’s fancy new toolbar. Icons - Notice all those icons? They're a new feature and that's the focus of the rest of this article.

So we no longer have page load after page load if you know where you're headed. Once vertical, you can expand and collapse whole sets of links. Toolbar Tray expansion - When in a horizontal view, you can click the icon to the far right and make it go vertical.Finally, Drupal has a world-class toolbar. I, for one, am very impressed with how comfortable this tray feels. Unlike Drupal 7, the top bar items tie directly to the second bar. Toolbar Tray - This is the white bar just below the black bar that can go 'horizontal' using a toggle switch.And the best part? The links collapse into icons on smaller screens.

In a particularly brilliant stroke, we have four very simple actions. Yes it's called the 'Toolbar Bar' (note the double 'bar'). Toolbar Bar - This is the black bar across the top.In Drupal 7, this is the toolbar you get: So, unless you were in the issue queues helping make decisions and solve problems, you've likely not taken much time to follow the evolution of the toolbar. Note that things can definitely change between now and a stable Drupal 8. It's so pretty, it's just begging to be extended and filled with all the awesome-sauce that is Drupal Commerce.īelow is a journey through making a toolbar icon happen on Drupal 8-alpha6. The icons are resolution independent, so that means your average mobile phone and some of the higher end laptops can show off a lot more icon detail. It's functional, beautiful, and really slick. Have you installed Drupal 8 yet? That toolbar is an incredible piece of art.

Change position of drupal admin toolbar