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Responsive Web Design by Example: Embrace responsive design with HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery and Bootstrap 4

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Responsive Web Design by Example

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

Brief history of Bootstrap

In 2011, Bootstrap was created by two Twitter employees (Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton) to address the issue of fragmentation of internal tools/platforms. Bootstrap aimed to provide consistency among different web applications that were internally developed to reduce redundancy and increase adaptability and reusability. As digital creators, we should always aim to make our applications adaptable and reusable. This will help keep coherency between applications and speed up processes, as we won't need to create basic foundations over and over again. For example, a website might have a login system, which is not unique to one project, but prevalent in many, and therefore reusing already existing code for this makes sense.

After a few months, Twitter Blueprint was born and provided a way to document and share common design patterns/assets within Twitter...

Why use Bootstrap?

You probably have a reasonable idea of why you would use Bootstrap for developing websites after reading its history, but there is more to it. Simply put, it provides the following:

  • A responsive grid, using the design philosophies mentioned in the first chapter.
  • Cross browser compatibility, using Normalize.css to ensure elements render consistently across all browsers, (not a very easy task, I might add, speaking from experience). You might be wondering why it's difficult. Simply put, there are several different browsers, each with a plethora of versions, which all render content differently. I've seen some browsers put a border around an image by default, whereas some browsers don't. This type of inconsistency will prove to be very bad for user experience.
  • A plethora of UI components, by providing polished UI components as developers, we are...

Bootstrap's grid system

This section will cover what a responsive grid system is and how it is implemented with Bootstrap.

First, let's cover what a grid system is in general, regardless of the framework you choose to develop your amazing website on top of. Without using a framework, CSS would be used to implement the grid. However, a framework like Bootstrap handles all of the CSS side and provides us with easy-to-use classes. A responsive grid system is composed of two main elements:

  • Columns: These are the horizontal containers for storing content on a single row
  • Rows: These are top level containers for storing columns

Your website will have at least one row, but it can have more. Each row can contain containers that span a set number of columns. For example, if the grid system had 100 columns, then a container that spans 50 would be half the width of the browser...

Bootstrap components

There is a plethora of amazing components that are provided with Bootstrap, thus saving time creating them from scratch. There are components for dropdowns, buttons, images, and so much more.

The usage is very similar to that of the grid system, and the same HTML elements we know and love are used with CSS classes to modify and display Bootstrap constructs. I won't go over every component that Bootstrap offers as that would require an encyclopedia in itself, and many of the commonly used ones will be covered in future chapters through example projects. I would however recommend taking a look at some of the components on Bootstrap's website https://v4-alpha.getbootstrap.com/components/alerts/

Summary

In this chapter, we covered what Bootstrap is and how its grid system will help us create our responsive websites. The next chapter will cover setting up a project template that can be reused for all our future projects.

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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.

Who is this book for?

If you are a web developers interested in incorporating responsive web designs in your websites, then this book is for you. Familiarity with HTML5, CSS3, and command lines, though not essential, will help you get the most out of this book.

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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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