> Hi all,

> I'm new to foundation after being recommended to try it out by @mkelly12
> on twitter. Also new to Ruby and Sass... like to learn everything all at
> once, and pick stuff up pretty quick as long as its logical. My background
> is in PHP and standard HTML/CSS but I've not done any work for a few years
> so I'm catching up with all the MAJOR changes in web development.

> I originally looked at Less but was recommended to look at sass instead,
> bootstrap worked with less... foundation followed.

> First thing I like about foundation is the ease of setting up a new
> project, not sure if thats more a compass thing but its definitely a change
> from how things are done with bootstrap, which I found awkward.

> I just want to check a few things before I start playing with how its
> setup on my system, and potentially putting ideas forward / changes.

> I'm working on a mac and ruby installed the gem into
> /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/zurb-foundation-3.0.7 will this be a copy of
> what is on github under the master branch?

> I want to expose more settings to the settings file and build on
> foundation I assume to do this I can modify the SCSS files and continuously
> rebase my work as ZURB provide updates? Or is there more to it than that? I
> liked how bootstrap gave lots of variable. Even something like link colour
> while it make default to the main colour it would be good to be able to
> change it. (Side question on this, do variables in sass have to be defined
> before they are used - i.e. if the link colour was defined before the main
> colour would this work, just hypothetically)

> In the same folder as above is a templates/project folder ... given the
> name I'm assuming this is what ruby/compass/whatever uses  to create the
> directory when running:
> compass create project name -r zurb-foundation --using foundation
> This might be a dumb question but is it possible to create multiple
> project templates and somehow have them build differently?

> Can anyone run through the folder layout for github?

> Few things I've noticed that may be issues to report, they may be me
> reading it wrong and not understanding it entirely yet.

> Even though my folder is called 3.0.7 the index.html files still say 3.0.6
> for the version
> In the settings file it has these lines, which don't make sense if I'm
> understand the layouts right, wouldn't they be like the second list
> instead:
> // @import "foundations/settings";
> // @import "foundations/function/all";
> // @import "foundations/common/globals";
> // @import "foundations/mixins/clearfix";

> // @import "foundation/settings";
> // @import "foundation/functions/all";
> // @import "foundation/common/globals";
> // @import "foundation/mixins/clearfix";

> I appreciate foundation is free and i'm not here just to point things out
> that need fixing. I'm happy to propose ideas and fixes once I fully
> understand the structure and can contribute if the project is open that way
> which it does look like on github.

> Lastly apologies for the long message and if there are other posts about
> any of these things, as there were so many specific questions I thought
> best to just ask all together rather than try and piece together an answer
> from search results.

> Thanks

> Alex