Stepping Out With Bootstrap from Twitter Twitter introduced Bootstrap recently, a library of CSS styles aimed at web app developers in need of some design help. The toolkit includes everything from grid layouts down to buttons and modals, and works on pretty much all modern browsers, all the way back to IE7. Let's see what we can do with it... Bootstrap is also enhanced through the Less preprocessor, which adds some additional reasons to use Bootstrap, although we'll exclude the Less functionality from the scope of this tutorial, to keep thing simple. Bootstrap includes a bit of documentation, but nowhere does it really explain how to use the toolkit (instead, there's just one big demo page for you to investigate yourself). What's Covered? We're going to take a look at the following (use the links to skip to the various sections): Grids are an integral part of a lot of web designs. The above code will generate a fairly equal set of CSS columns displaying some minimal content. Quoting Lists Forms Text Input Dropdown Select Checkboxes or
CSS sucks, do Less! « Hype Driven Development L’écriture d’une feuille de style est l’un des moments les plus douloureux pour tout développeur Web : la science occulte des CSS et sa verbosité en font une soupe rarement agréable à avaler. Mais un outil peut changer tout ça : Less! Less est un preprocesseur CSS et n’est pas magique : vous devrez tout de même travailler pour avoir un style graphique convenable. Mais la où il innove, c’est par l’ajout de quelques fonctionnalités bien pratiques, et on se demande comment nous avons pu nous en passer jusque la. Do Less Pour démarrer, un fichier css peut être un fichier less : vous le renommez en .less et le tour est joué. Ou vous pouvez compiler directement vos fichiers less en css, selon le type de votre application : - Avec des compilateurs existants comme less.app - Avec le module less de nodejs - Si vous faites du Play! Variables Que tout ceux qui n’ont jamais pesté pour changer la couleur d’un thème lève la main! @body_color: #262626; @font_color: #EAF2D9; @font_size: 20px; Fonctions Import
Controlfrog Black Layout 1 Layout 2 Layout 3 Layout 4 White Bootstrap Customization: Themes, UI Patterns and Tools Everyone loves Bootstrap, the front-end framework created by Twitter, because it’s easy to set up, it magically creates a responsive version, great for prototyping etc... Of course, its biggest defect is that it’s too visible. We can think of thousands of projects where the framework is clearly recognizable. This shouldn’t happen so often, as there are a huge number of resources for customizing Bootstrap, and we have to go out and find them. What we’re bringing you today is a complete selection of themes, plugins, UI patterns and tools for customizing the structure and visual design of Bootstrap layouts. WrapBootstrap WrapBootstrap is a marketplace for premium Bootstrap themes and templates. by Matthew AdamsWe ran a retrospective of our first few Bootstrap-based HTML5/Javascript projects a few weeks back, and distilled some of the output into these top tips.Read the article
10 Ways to Cut Down Web Development Time In today’s development environment: faster is better. Present-day buzzwords and buzz terms like "rapid application development", "Agile", and "Asynchronous JavaScript and XML" (we can’t even wait for web pages reload anymore) gives you an insight of the fast-paced world we live in. But getting things done rapidly doesn’t mean working harder – just working smarter. 1. Frameworks abstract regular code to provide you a structure and foundation for developing web applications. A classical example of a framework is Rails, a web application development framework for the Ruby language. The same goes for JavaScript frameworks like MooTools; it saves you time by providing you methods that have been already been widely tested by the core developers and the community for cross-browser support. For server-side frameworks: check out CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Zend, or symphony (for PHP), or if you like writing in Microsoft-supported languages like VB and C#, consider the .NET Framework. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Twitter Bootstrap Tutorial Last update on April 14 2018 06:14:58 (UTC/GMT +8 hours) The most popular of the front end frameworks, Twitter Bootstrap, has come to its third version (v3.0.0). This Twitter Bootstrap Tutorial for beginners will get you started with Twitter Bootstrap 3. If you have already used Bootstrap before, this will introduce you with new features came with the version. You will also see how to customize the out of the box features of the framework, using grids to creating a layout, creating navigation with nav, creating dropdowns, using carousal, adding third party staff like embedding social plugins and Google Map and more. Bootstrap Examples To provide you with Better understanding, we have explicitly compiled a good amount of Bootstrap Examples besides the ones included with the tutorials. What is twitter bootstrap Twitter Bootstrap is a front end framework to develop web apps and sites fast. Why do you use Twitter Bootstrap in your projects? Download and understand file structure Basic HTML <!
20+ Beautiful Resources That Complement Twitter Bootstrap Twitter Bootstrap is a beautiful "web design kit" for creating cross browser, consistent and good looking interfaces. With a flexible and well-thought HTML/CSS/Javascript structure, it offers many of the popular UI components, a grid system and JavaScript plugins for common scenarios. And, it seems to be rocking the web design community as there are lots of websites already built and being built with it (it is also the most watched/forked repository in GitHub). Twitter Bootstrap is already powerful enough to empower any web interface. These include Bootstrap themed vector UI images, WordPress themes, web-based Bootstrap customizers and more. jQuery UI Bootstrap This is an awesome resource for jQuery and Twitter Bootstrap users that combines the power of both. It is a jQuery UI theme that not only brings Bootstrap-themed widgets but also enables us to use (most) of Twitter Bootstrap side-by-wide without any components being broken visually. Bootstrap Image Gallery jQuery Mobile Bootstrap Theme
10 Usability Crimes You Really Shouldn’t Commit Over time certain conventions and best practices have been developed to help improve the general usability of websites during their design and build. This roundup of ten usability crimes highlights some of the most common mistakes or overlooked areas in web design and provides an alternative solution to help enhance the usability of your website. Crime 1: Form labels that aren’t associated to form input fields Using the ‘for’ attribute allows the user to click the label to select the appropriate input fields within a form. Crime 2: A logo that doesn’t link to the homepage Linking the logo of a website to the homepage has become common practice and is now second nature for (most) web surfers to expect the logo to head back home. Crime 3: Not specifying a visited link state Visited link states do exactly as they say on the tin. Crime 4: Not indicating an active form field Crime 5: An image without an alt description Crime 6: A background image without a background color