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Learning Zurb Foundation

By : Kevin Horek
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Learning Zurb Foundation

By: Kevin Horek

Overview of this book

<p>Responsive web design is the next big thing in web design right now. It allows you to control and adapt to the user experience across a variety of devices, screens, and resolutions. Foundation is one of the most well-known responsive frameworks available, and allows you to speed up the prototyping, designing, and theming of your web project; as well as allowing you to create your own custom themes to suit your needs. It makes your life easier by giving you a grid, elements, and JavaScript functions that are responsive and easily customized to work with any web or mobile project that arises.</p> <p>This book starts off with teaching you the basics, and gradually moves on to cover the most advanced parts of this amazing framework. You will learn how to use Foundation to prototype, design, and theme your projects as well as discover how to use the framework with any programming language or content management system.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning Zurb Foundation
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Finding a starter theme


Foundation can and has been used with pretty much any content management system, and the Foundation community has been great in creating paid and free starter themes for your use. For those of you who are not familiar with a starter theme, this is a base theme that is created for a content management system or programming language; it takes Foundation and creates a starter theme for WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla, which you can start with to create your project from. This is similar to what Zurb gives you with Foundation when you first download it and open the index.html file.

You see a bunch of the Foundation components inside the grid, as shown in the following screenshot:

Zurb has a great list of these starter themes at http://foundation.zurb.com/develop/tools.html. The following screenshot shows the list of the starter themes that you will find on the site:

They update this list on a regular basis and you should check it often. You will notice that most of today's...