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 use any of the JavaScript functionality that comes with Bootstrap.

Basic Template

There is a basic template that you can use. Or you can create your own. Either way, you can look at using HTML5 – much like you did with jQuery Mobile, or any model website.

This template assumes that you are loading files for Bootstrap and jQuery from a CDN. You can swap out the necessary file locations if need be with local/relative link versions of those files if you want to load from a single domain. Each has it’s positives and negatives.



  
    
    
    
    
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Assistant Professor

Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.

Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.

He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.

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