Up and Running with Bootstrap lead by Jen Kramer

[Dawn Russell]

Event Details

1:00 - 4:00 at the Marlboro College Graduate School in Brattleboro.   Everybody's welcome!

This month we're examining bootstrap, an open source front-end framework, is one of the hottest front-end frameworks for building responsive websites. Follow along and learn how to build a Bootstrap-based website from scratch, incorporating the responsive grid system, see the basic CSS in action, incorporate Javascript-based components, and customize CSS using LESS.

Note: The entire session will be a hands on workshop focus on getting you:

UP AND RUNNING WITH BOOTSTRAP

 WITH JEN KRAMER 

IN THIS HANDS-ON WORKSHOP, JEN KRAMER WILL LEAD YOU IN:

• Downloading Bootstrap and incorporating it into an HTML document
• Working with the Bootstrap responsive grid system
• Exploring Bootstrap’s core CSS, overriding this CSS using standard CSS techniques
• Incorporating Bootstrap’s image formatting elements and icons
• Creating and styling interactive menus with Bootstrap, including dropdown menus
• Incorporating jQuery plugins with Bootstrap, including alerts, modal windows, image carousels, accordion windows, and more
• Customizing Bootstrap using CSS LESS

Please  go to Jen's site ahead of time and download the half-day workshop version (orange button).

If you want to follow along, bring a laptop with a program for writing code. Jen will be using Sublime Text 2, but whatever they want to use is fine. It's assumed people will have a good grasp of HTML and CSS. Javascript/jQuery isn't required, but people may find it helpful.

See you on next Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013 at 1:00pm!

Barb and Dawn