A steady increase in mobile traffic at the expense of desktop traffic forced Examiner.com to make a decision: continue development on separate desktop and mobile themes or build a new responsive theme to replace them both. The choice to go responsive presented many business and development challenges along the way but resulted in a better, leaner, more maintainable website.

Follow the Examiner.com development team through the process of designing and implementing a fully responsive theme for the largest Drupal site in the world. We'll discuss the difficult decisions we had to make, the obstacles we faced, and the benefits we gained as we moved to a responsive design.