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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

Adjusting the navbar


This design calls for a fixed top navbar with a significant color shift for hovered and active links. I've already applied some of these styles by setting appropriate variables. Let me point those out, and then we'll move on to make some necessary adjustments to the markup.

The less/_variables.less file is based on Bootstrap's variables.less file. I've customized the shades of gray as per previous projects. You'll see these in the topmost section of the file.

I've further adjusted the following navbar variables, adjusting its height, margin, colors, and hover colors specifically for this design:

// Basics of a navbar
@navbar-height:                    56px;
@navbar-margin-bottom:             0;
...
// Navbar links
@navbar-default-link-color:       @navbar-default-color;
@navbar-default-link-hover-color: #fff;
@navbar-default-link-hover-bg:    @gray;
@navbar-default-link-active-color: #fff;
@navbar-default-link-active-bg:  @gray-dark;

In addition, I've adjusted the variables...

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