Setting up the blog project
As I mentioned earlier, we're going to be building a blog throughout this book as we learn to use Bootstrap 4. Let's start by creating a new directory and call it something like Bootstrap Blog. Open up that folder and create the following sub-directories inside it:
- css
- fonts
- img
- js
- partial
css
The css directory will hold the Bootstrap framework's CSS file and a custom theme file which we'll build later on. Go to the Bootstrap source file directory and locate the dist/css folder. From there, copy bootstrap.min.css to our new blog project's css directory.
fonts
The fonts directory will hold either a font icon library such as Glyphicon or Font Awesome. Previously, Bootstrap shipped with Glyphicon but they have dropped it in version 4. If you wish to use it, you'll need to download the icon font set and then drop the files into this directory. You could also include a web font that you may want to use on your project in this directory. If you...
