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Learning Bootstrap 2

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Discover Bootstrap, a free web development tool from Twitter that, with a little bit of CSS and JavaScript experience, makes building websites quick, intuitive, and fun.

Bootstrap is a free web development tool from Twitter that, with a little bit of CSS and JavaScript experience, makes building websites quick, intuitive, and fun. Author Jen Kramer explores its 12-column grid layout; typography and icon libraries; fully functional components like nav bars, buttons, and tabs; and much more. This course also shows how to add JavaScript extras like dropdown menus, modal windows, and photo carousels.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Using the exercise files
1. Getting Started with Bootstrap
  • What is Bootstrap?
  • Downloading and unzipping Bootstrap
  • Setting up a Dreamweaver site with Bootstrap files
2. The Grid System in Bootstrap
  • Understanding the difference between default and fluid grids
  • Exploring the fluid grid and creating new rows
  • Understanding fluid offsetting
  • Nesting with fluid grids
  • Exploring Bootstrap media queries and device-specific styling
  • Adding a hero unit
  • Creating a thumbnail gallery
3. CSS Overview
  • Exploring basic typography
  • Including blockquotes
  • Including lists
  • Styling buttons
  • Incorporating images
  • Incorporating icons
  • Overriding Bootstrap core CSS
4. Navigation Systems
  • Adding breadcrumbs
  • Adding pagination for paging through content
  • Adding a page for next and previous links
  • Using tabs and pills navigation
  • Adding the basic navigation bar
5. JavaScript Effects
  • Understanding how JavaScript works in Bootstrap
  • Making the nav bar responsive with JavaScript
  • Adding a dropdown menu to the navigation bar
  • Adding a dropdown menu to the tabs and pill navigation
  • Tabbing within the same page
  • Creating modal windows
  • Creating a photo carousel
Conclusion
  • Other resources

Taught by

Jen Kramer

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