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What is Bootstrap, Why Do We Use It?

This chapter will explain what Bootstrap is, and how it relates to Responsive Web Design and its immense importance to the web industry.

The topics covered in this chapter are as follows:

Bootstrap's history
Bootstrap's syntax
Bootstrap's grid system
Bootstrap's responsive philosophy
Bootstrap's components

Key benefits

Rapidly develop and prototype responsive websites by leveraging the power of Bootstrap

Practice performance optimization techniques to make your site lighter and faster

Learn responsive web design and discover how to build mobile-ready websites with ease

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Desktop-only websites just aren't good enough anymore. As you enter a future of increasingly diverse browsing methods, you need to know how to build websites that are presentable and will work perfectly with the huge volume of different device sizes and resolutions that are now commercially available. Responsive web design is an answer to the problem of modern web development. By following the detailed step-by-step instructions, previews, and examples mentioned in this book, you will learn how to build engaging responsive websites and upgrade your skills as a web designer. With coverage of Responsive Grid System and Bootstrap, you will learn about the most powerful frameworks in responsive web design. In this book, you will learn how to create a crisp blog page, a beautiful portfolio site, a cool social networking page, and a fun photo gallery. Through each of these projects, you'll learn how to build various elements of a modern responsive website, and also find out which framework works best for your project specifications. By the end of the book, you will have gained practical skills you need to build real-world websites that are professional, creative and truly responsive.

What you will learn

Understand what responsive design is, and why it s vital for modern web development

Customize and extend responsive design frameworks

Create adaptable templates for all future projects

Build a semantic website structure with HTML5 elements

Determine a responsive website persona with CSS3

Learn how to decide which framework best suits your project specification

Implement a plethora of Bootstrap features in your websites

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Supratim Paul Oct 10, 2018

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In the interests of full disclosure, I've been a professional software developer for over 15 years now and an Olympic-grade cynic and curmudgeon for about twice that. I was at university when the web first became a Thing and I've watched it develop over the years, for better or worse. I'll also state that a) I don't like Javascript and b) the fad-driven nature of web design and the mad rush to embrace the framework du jour is both annoying and somewhat pathetic.All that being said, despite being a primarily server-side developer I do occasionally need to make forays into front-end development and as such I just want to get the job done - I don't care about using this week's hot framework, I just want to get something up and running. Unlike other tech-driven bandwagons (DevOps, serverless, the cloud etc.) the whole 'responsive' web design paradigm does have a relatively stable footing and there is some method to the buzzword-driven madness.It's good, therefore, to find a book which cuts through all the BS and takes you through what responsive design entails in a sane manner with plenty of examples to boot. Better yet, for the Javascript-oriented stuff it resists the temptation to embrace ReAngTive-4.2 or whatever other framework the hipsters have embraced today and sticks to plain ol' jQuery and Bootstrap - this is a good start in and of itself.Very little prior knowledge is assumed - if you've got even a modest amount of programming experience you can comfortably skip the first couple of chapters, although the background behind responsive design is actually worth a read. Hussain is an engaging writer and over the course of the book you are taken through the steps necessary to build a responsive, single-page website starting with a reusable project template (I don't like the fact that Hussain uses PHP for this, but if you've got the nouse you could do it in any language - I used Python, for example) and takes you through the various stages of putting a website together using all the usual tricks that seem to be all the rage right now, with a bunch of real world examples to illustrate the points made. It's a reassuringly slim volume, too (less than 300 pages) and then quite a few of them are full-page illustrations - the book tells you what you need to know with a minimum of fuss.Possibly my only gripe is that the changes made to the code throughout the book could be a bit clearer - sometimes it's not exactly clear whether you're adding lines or taking them away as it is buried somewhere in an accompanying paragraph. That aside, the book does what it sets out to do admirably - it won't turn you into some kind of design guru overnight, and if you're looking for a breakdown of this week's hot framework then you're going to be sorely disappointed, but if you're not a front-end developer and want to get something done you could do a lot worse.

Tony T Sep 24, 2018

My worst buy on Amazon ever, wasted 20 bucks on this book. Very shallow, short, doesn't explain anything in detail, just talks about general concepts and tells you to copy paste everything. For example there is a lesson on how to create a header. It almost literally goes like this: Copy this code (25 lines of code to copy-paste). Explanation: Creates the menu. More or less this is the level of depth you can expect from this book. I will never buy anything from Packt publishing again.

Sharon Lee Ryder Jul 08, 2018

Book is not what is advertised. After a brief (and error-ridden) intro to Bootstrap, the book relies on creating a template using PHP. No where in any of the promotion does it mention PHP. I know Bootstrap, HTML, CSS and some Javascript/jQuery and wanted to delve deeper. Don't want to have to learn/use PHP. Not necessary to do any of the work with any of the aforementioned coding. Further, while the author may know his subject well, it appears that the book was translated from his native language and not translated well. Sometimes you have to untangle the syntax to figure out what is being said. This is the second book from Packt Publishing I've bought and returned. The first one was completely illiterate. They have no business being in the publishing business if they can't publish material that is grammatically and factually correct. I also tried to log on to their site to download files and encountered technical problems. I guess that says it all about their capabilities and knowledge about internet subjects.

JM Oct 22, 2018

This book is just a basic guide to Bootstrap, not an in-depth guide to responsive web design idea and techniques. I read it in about 45 minutes and was not impressed at all. It is ok if all you want to do is make a basic website using Bootstrap.

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