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Bootstrap Site Blueprints Volume II

You're reading from   Bootstrap Site Blueprints Volume II Maximize the potential of Bootstrap for faster and more responsive web applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785281099
Length 328 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Matt Lambert Matt Lambert
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Updating the header and footer


Now that our Less variables are ready to go, let's move on to updating our template partials. At this point, we'll set up a new header and footer. We'll also create a couple of more placeholder files for sidebars, which will be added a little later. For now, create the following blank files for later use:

  • _nav-modal.ejs (if you haven't already)

  • _sidebar.ejs

  • _sidebar-search.ejs

As explained earlier, the nav modal will be our primary navigation component. The sidebar partial will be used on almost every page, so I've broken it down into a partial. Thus, it can be easily edited. Our search results page will have a different sidebar, so a partial has been created for that as well.

Coding the header

As we've done in a past project, we're not going to use the default Bootstrap header here. We're going to use the basic grid, the inline list component, and some wrapper classes to create a custom header. The header will be divided into two sections. The first will be...

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