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When was the last time you looked at your site analytics? Over the last 5 years, mobile web browsing has taken off and many businesses and organizations have been brushing their mobile users under the carpet. You don't need to do this! You can convert a basic Drupal site to be more mobile-friendly in short amount of time, and using modules or plugins can save you a ton of time. Today we're going to look at some different techniques or plugins you can use to convert your site menu to a mobile-friendly format.

It's always there, just sitting taking up space. Much of the time it goes unused, but you want to keep it there just in case. I'm talking about the search box, and it has become a ubiquitous but often overlooked element of a site. Designers like me were often very limited in terms of what could be done in terms of customization of the search feature in Drupal. Nowadays, modules developers have given us some powerful and simple to use tools to tone the search experience. Today we're going to look at one solution to the search problem.

We've done a lot of different tutorials regarding what you can do to expand your current site features, but what about things you can do before your site launches? Today we're going to be building a teaser countdown page that will allow people to visit your URL and hopefully generate some interest. To make it a touch better, we're going to be incorporating a email form that will add the visitor to a mailing list which you can then use to contact once you launch.

Anyone with a little experience with Views knows that you can take a list of content and expose some filters to your users so that they can limit or rearrange the list to their specifications. However, when this is done it uses a series of drop down menus and an "apply" button. While this is a powerful and built-in function, it limits our options when it comes to styling our filters as we want. What if we want our filters to be pre-rendered tabs, perhaps with an AJAX loader that will build queries as needed?

The little details in your site can make all the difference when it comes down to accessibility and ease-of-use. Breadcrumbs usually fall by the wayside on most Drupal sites because at the default level they barely work. Sure they are great on the admin side but once you set up various content types, views, pages, and contact pages, all of a sudden your breadcrumbs become dumb. They don't know how your pages are linked unless you use "Navigation" or "Main Menu" for everything.