Customize Twitter Bootstrap To Not Look Bootstrap-y NOTICE: This article is outdated. Please read my article on how to build Bootstrap 3.0 themes the proper way. Thank you! PLEASE, if you do use Bootstrap for just about everything be courteous to your audience and change up some of the basic variables so it doesn’t look all the same! I used BootTheme. Have trouble coming up with a damn color scheme? Take an extra five minutes and figure out a good color combo. They have a “customize” page! Font Awesome because holy crap new icons with minimal 5 minute setup. Subtle Patterns is THE PLACE to go to for quick, beautiful patterns. Extras (updated) After writing this article and having it take off with tens of thousands of readers, I found a few NEW things you can do and that will help out: adjust shadow settings. Truth Be Told Update: I coded up a free bootstrap theme for everyone to see. I’m not asking for that much. A little bit of self promotion Don’t want to do it? Other Resources
Ionicons: The premium icon font for Ionic Framework 15 Great Twitter Bootstrap Resources Twitter Bootstrap is a great front-end framework that lets you quickly prototype new web projects. Here is a list of great resources that gives even more power to the Bootstrap framework. Fuel UX extends Twitter Bootstrap with additional lightweight JavaScript controls. Other benefits include easy installation into web projects, integrated scripts for customizing Bootstrap and Fuel UX, simple updates, and solid optimization for deployment. All functionality is covered by live documentation and unit tests. This library allows you to create editable elements on your page. Extends Bootstrap’s native modals to provide additional functionality. Bootswatch is a collection of free themes for Twitter Bootstrap. Prototype Bootstrap-based apps using your favorite presentation tool. This date range picker component for Twitter Bootstrap creates a dropdown menu from which a user can select a range of dates. The iconic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap.
Bootstrap customization and responsive design | lynda.com tutorial Recently I’ve been using a really awesome framework called Bootstrap to put small websites together. In this article, I’m going to guide you through the basics of the Bootstrap installation process, and how the Bootstrap framework can be customized for a responsive web design. The end result of this tutorial will be a custom Bootstrap website (you can see the final website here). If you prefer to skip the basics and get right to the Bootstrap code, you can download the code directly from GitHub. Why Bootstrap? Bootstrap is a framework that provides an easy-to-use 12-column grid system for a 940 pixel wide container as well as a fluid layout grid that adjusts to the size of a browser. To put the benefit of using Bootstrap into perspective, consider how you go about building a website. Imagine how much quicker and easier your web build could be if you used Bootstrap to help you organize everything from designing site structure to defining site maps and building column structures. Base CSS
Build a Dynamic Dashboard With ChartJS - Tuts+ Web Design Tutorial Today we will be creating a dynamic dashboard with live charts, through the power of ChartJS. ChartJS is a powerful, dependency free JavaScript library which builds graphs via the canvas element. Best of all, it's easy for designers to get up and running. We're going to build our dashboard on top of HTML5 Boilerplate. # On the command line git clone git@github.com:h5bp/html5-boilerplate.git chartjs_dashboard Next, we'll grab ChartJS. Tip: in production, you would use the minified version of the JavaScript, to make the dashboard more performant. Your file structure should look like this: ├── 404.html ├── crossdomain.xml ├── css │ ├── main.css │ └── normalize.css ├── favicon.ico ├── img ├── index.html ├── js │ ├── main.js │ ├── plugins.js │ └── vendor │ ├── jquery-1.10.1.min.js │ └── modernizr-2.6.2.min.js └── robots.txt Note: this does not include some of the files included in H5BP that we won't be using. dark blue: #637b85green: #2c9c69yellow: #dbba34red: #c62f29
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