Resources for Ryan's Bootstrap presentation at the first GCC event.
We will be using a combination of Bootstrap, and LESS along with traditional HTML to create a beautiful responsive website that you can use to show off whatever you'd like. Participants will learn about LESS/CSS syntax and how HTML can structure a web page.
HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a way of writing information in a structured format so that web browsers can interpret it as a web page. HTML is the backbone of almost every single website on the internet.
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a language used to add style to the look and formatting of a webpage. CSS is not concerned with the actual content of a website, it focusses instead on the presentation of the content.
LESS allows developers to write CSS code much faster and cleaner than they usually would. LESS allows us to take shortcuts in developing a website by writing simple code that can be compiled into CSS.
Javascript is a very popular language for making websites responsive to a user's input. It let's us create a website that a user can interact with and perform various functions.
Bootstrap is a framework that we can add to our regular development of a website using Javascript, HTML, and CSS/LESS. Bootstrap takes care of a lot of layout and formatting problems for us and makes our websites really easy to create by simply following a template.
- LoremPixel: site that provides placeholder images for initially creating a website.
- WinLess Online: site that compiles LESS to CSS
- Sublime Text 2: an awesome code editor for all major operating systems
- Bootstrap: the official site for Bootstrap version 2 with full documentation
- Mozilla Developer Network: great online resource for information on web programming
- Font Awesome: collection of beautiful, free icons