Creating Mobile Templates with OpenCms 8

Track: Workshop
Speaker: Rüdiger Kurz (Alkacon Software GmbH)

Abstract

With the growing use of smartphones, tablet computers and other mobile devices, it becomes increasingly important to offer optimized user experiences for these platforms.

In this session, Rüdiger did explain the new functionalities added in OpenCms 8 to control template rendering for these types of mobile devices.

Rüdiger did show how it is possible to create a single template that renders content for multiple output channels, or how to create different templates for desktop and mobile browser using the same article contents.

 

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