Starting with Bootstrap

ByWalter Wimberly

We’ll be looking at Bootstrap, Version 4 as it is the latest, since it gives us several benefits, including being mobile friendly/responsive right out of the box, and comes with several ready to use components.

If you go to GetBootstrap.com you are given a couple of options.

First, you can click on the Download button. This will let you download the files to your local computer. You can then copy them into your project to get started.

You also are given links to files on a CDN. A CDN, or Content Delivery Network, lets you access files from other servers. Many CDNs are set up so they have multiple servers around the country, or even world, so that you download from the closest/fastest one.

This means reduced resources on your server to transmit files, and faster downloads for your users.

Alternately, you can click on the Get Started button. Scrolling down, you can find a ready made HTML 5 template which has your source file, and links to our Bootstrap files already in it.

Starting with Bootstrap was originally found on Access 2 Learn

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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