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Bootstrap Site Blueprints

You're reading from   Bootstrap Site Blueprints Without Bootstrap your web designs may not be reaching their full potential. This book will change that through a series of hands-on projects covering everything from custom icon fonts to JavaScript plugins.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782164524
Length 304 pages
Edition Edition
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David Cochran David Cochran
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Ian Whitley Ian Whitley
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Bootstrap Site Blueprints
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started with Bootstrap 2. Bootstrappin' Your Portfolio FREE CHAPTER 3. Bootstrappin' a WordPress Theme 4. Bootstrappin' Business 5. Bootstrappin' E-commerce 6. Bootstrappin' a One-page Marketing Website Optimizing Site Assets Implementing Responsive Images Adding Swipe to the Carousel Index

Creating a complex banner area


Let's start from the top and create our complex banner area with the following features:

  • A site logo positioned above the navbar for desktops and larger viewports

  • A navbar with many menu items, including dropdowns

  • A utility navigation area

  • A login form with username and password

  • An option to register

Here is the mockup of our desired end goal on a desktop-width viewport:

On a narrow viewport, it will adjust to this:

We'll start by working on a new arrangement for our top logo.

Placing a logo above the navbar

In this new design, we need a logo in two spots, for two contexts:

  • For desktop and widescreen viewports, we want the logo to display above the navbar

  • For tablet and phone viewports, we want the logo to display within the responsive navbar

Thanks to Bootstrap's responsive utility classes, we can do both! Here's how:

  1. Open index.html in your editor.

  2. From the navbar, copy the navbar-brand link and image. It looks like this:

    <a class="navbar-brand" href="index.html">...
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