While a lot of layout in a website can be done with your grids, you don’t want to necessarily use grids to display tabular data. Therefore, you want to use a table. Bootstrap has given us several CSS classes that we can use to easier layout our tables. For basic styling, you will only want…
Bootstrap comes with a grid system you can use. It has 12 columns that are available, and they take up 100% of the content’s width. This allows the grid to resize depending upon the size of the browser window. Once it reaches a certain size, the items will auto adjust to a new row, to…
Bootstrap considers two different types of customizations. These customizations can either come from yourself, and/or a 3rd party. Light customizations – which include changing minor things like color and font changes. Overhauls – which change the way a class functions. Make sure you find the Bootstrap selector, and use the same selector. This keeps you…
Installation is like what the installation for any CSS or JavaScript framework for any website. You can either download the files from http://getbootstrap.com/getting-started/, or you can link to it via the Content Delivery Network (CDN). Requiring jQuery Regardless of which version you use, you will still need to include jQuery if you are going to…
Bootstrap is becoming a popular web layout system for the web. It was started by a designer/developer who worked at Twitter in 2010, and currently is at version 3.1.1. Bootstrap is a web framework. This means that it has identified common problems that web designer and developers run into, and tries to provide easy solutions…
Unlike working with Navigation in the mobile environment, forms input will be more about styling and proper use of HTML tags/attributes. Because of the size of the screen, we need to find good ways that we can overcome the small space. This means providing an easy and clear way for users to enter information into…
Coming up with a good navigation structure is important in mobile web design. We’ve already looked at some issues when dealing with navigation in mobile devices. Now we are going to look at some ideas on over coming these problems. Problem Recap Just to recap some of the problems we may experience: Taking up too…
Some things are more complex/fancy than useful. Consider the Star Wars Crawl, The Matrix, or a 3D cube. These are often proof’s of concept/fun projects that see what can be done. Of course, soon we’ll see clients who want to have their websites scroll vertically automatically like the matrix, or into a distance like with…
