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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
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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

Tweaking the columns and their content


Let's fine-tune the blocks of content under the three headings Welcome!, Recent Updates, and Our Team.

First, let's add the arrow-circle icon to the button in each of these three blocks. Recall that we're using Font Awesome for our icon selection.

  1. Visit the Font Awesome documentation at http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icons/.

  2. You'll find the icon that we're after.

  3. In index.html, add a span tag with the appropriate classes inside each link. Here is the first one, which I've spaced out by adding an extra carriage return between elements.

    <p>
      <a class="btn btn-primary pull-right" href="#">
        See our portfolio <span class="icon fa fa-arrow-circle-right"></span>
      </a>
    </p>
  4. Repeat for each link.

You should now have the desired icon in each of the three buttons.

While we're at it, let's add a bit of vertical padding between the carousel and this section of text. Right now, it's pretty tight.

The question that comes...

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