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Bootstrap Site Blueprints. Without Bootstrap your web designs may not be reaching their full potential. This book will change that through a series of hands-on projects covering everything from custom icon fonts to JavaScript plugins

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Bootstrap Site Blueprints
- Table of Contents
- Bootstrap Site Blueprints
- Credits
- About the Authors
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
  - Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more
    - Why subscribe?
    - Free access for Packt account holders
- Preface
  - What this book covers
  - What you need for this book
  - Who this book is for
  - Conventions
  - Reader feedback
  - Customer support
  - Downloading the example code
    - Errata
    - Piracy
    - Questions
- 1. Getting Started with Bootstrap
  - Quantity and quality
    - Improving with age
    - The power of leaner CSS
  - Downloading Bootstrap
    - The files youll have
  - Preparing a project template folder
    - Getting H5BP
    - Deleting unnecessary Boilerplate files
    - Evaluating the Boilerplate .htaccess file
    - Updating required Boilerplate files
    - Updating the favicon and touch icons
  - Pulling in the Bootstrap files
    - Fonts
    - JavaScript
    - Holding off on the CSS
    - Bringing the LESS files over
  - Taking inventory
  - Setting up the HTML template file
  - Giving your site a title
    - Adjusting the outdated browser message
    - Setting up major structural elements
  - Providing a navbar markup
  - Compiling and linking default Bootstrap CSS
    - Compiling Bootstrap CSS
    - Completing the responsive navbar
    - Troubleshooting
    - Adding support for Internet Explorer 8
  - Summary
- 2. Bootstrappin' Your Portfolio
  - What we'll build
  - Surveying the exercise files
  - Marking up the carousel
  - Creating responsive columns
  - Turning links into buttons
  - Understanding the power of LESS
    - Nested rules
    - Variables
    - Mixins
    - Operations
    - Importing files
    - The modular file organization
  - Customizing Bootstrap's LESS according to our needs
    - Customizing variables
      - Importing our new variables
      - Editing navbar variables
  - Adding the logo image
  - Adjusting nav item padding
  - Adding icons
  - Adding Font Awesome icons
  - Adjusting the navbar icon color
  - Adjusting the responsive navbar breakpoint
  - Styling the carousel
    - Setting Font Awesome icons for the controls
    - Adding top and bottom padding
    - Forcing images to their full width
    - Constraining the carousel height
    - Repositioning the carousel indicators
    - Styling the indicators
  - Tweaking the columns and their content
  - Styling the footer
  - Recommended next steps
  - Summary
- 3. Bootstrappin' a WordPress Theme
  - Downloading and renaming the Roots theme
  - Installing the theme
  - Configuring the navbar
  - Bringing in our home page content
    - Adding images
  - Customizing a page template
  - Understanding the Roots base template
  - Creating a custom base template
  - Using custom fields for a custom structure
  - Creating a custom content template
    - Building our carousel from custom fields
    - Adding our content columns from custom fields
  - Putting the footer content in place
  - Surveying the Roots assets folder
  - Swapping design assets
  - Connecting our stylesheet
  - Connecting our JavaScript files
  - Adding logo images to the navbar and footer
  - Adding icon links
  - Adding back WordPress-specific styles
  - Summary
- 4. Bootstrappin' Business
  - Sizing up our beginning files
  - Creating a complex banner area
    - Placing a logo above the navbar
    - Reviewing and checking navbar dropdown items
  - Adding utility navigation
  - Making responsive adjustments
  - Implementing the color scheme
  - Styling the collapsed navbar
    - Styling the horizontal navbar
  - Designing a complex responsive layout
    - Adjusting the medium and wide layout
    - Adjusting headings, font sizes, and buttons
    - Enhancing the primary column
    - Adjusting the tertiary column
    - Fine touches for multiple viewports
  - Laying out a complex footer
    - Setting up the markup
    - Adjusting for tablet-width viewports
    - Adding a targeted responsive clearfix
    - Refining the details
  - Summary
- 5. Bootstrappin' E-commerce
  - Surveying the markup for our products page
  - Styling the breadcrumbs, page title, and pagination
  - Adjusting the products grid
  - Styling the options sidebar
    - Setting up basic styles
    - Styling the Clearance Sale link
    - Styling the options list
    - Adding Font Awesome checkboxes to our option links
    - Using LESS mixins to arrange option links in columns
    - Adjusting the options list layout for tablets and phones
    - Collapsing the options panel for phone users
  - Summary
- 6. Bootstrappin' a One-page Marketing Website
  - Overview
  - Surveying the starter files
  - Viewing the page content
  - Adjusting the navbar
  - Customizing the jumbotron
    - Refining the jumbotron message design
  - Beautifying the features list
  - Tackling customer reviews
    - Positioning and styling the captions
    - Refining the caption position
    - Adding Bootstrap grid classes
    - Downloading and linking up the Masonry JavaScript plugin
    - Initializing Masonry JavaScript on our reviews layout
    - Cutting and trimming our bricks
      - Adjusting for tiny screens
  - Creating attention-grabbing pricing tables
    - Setting up the variables, files, and markup
    - Beautifying the table head
    - Styling the table body and foot
    - Differentiating the packages
    - Adjusting for small viewports
    - Providing visual hierarchy to our tables
  - Adding the final touches
  - Adding ScrollSpy to the navbar
    - Animating the scroll
  - Summary
- A. Optimizing Site Assets
  - Optimizing images
  - Optimizing CSS
  - Optimizing JavaScript
  - Our optimized results
- B. Implementing Responsive Images
  - Considering our portfolio carousel
  - Choosing a solution from the available solutions
    - Preparing our responsive images
    - Plugging in the JavaScript
    - Implementing the markup structure
    - Testing and adjusting
  - Our end results
- C. Adding Swipe to the Carousel
  - Considering our options
  - Getting and including the TouchSwipe plugin
  - Initializing TouchSwipe
- Index

Title: Bootstrap Site Blueprints. Without Bootstrap your web designs may not be reaching their full potential. This book will change that through a series of hands-on projects covering everything from custom icon fonts to JavaScript plugins
Author: David Cochran, Ian Whitley
Original title: Bootstrap Site Blueprints. Without Bootstrap your web designs may not be reaching their full potential. This book will change that through a series of hands-on projects covering everything from custom icon fonts to JavaScript plugins.
ISBN: 9781782164531, 9781782164531
Date of issue: 2014-02-21
Format: Ebook
Item ID: e_3cfy
Publisher: Packt Publishing

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