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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

Chapter 7. Sass and Foundation

If you are looking to speed up your code and extend your CSS, you can use Sass, and since Foundation uses Sass, we will be covering how to use Foundation and Sass in this chapter.

If you want to read more about the Sass project, you can visit the project's website at http://sass-lang.com. This site will keep you up to date on new features of Sass and has documented how to use every possible feature. As this is not a book about Sass, we will learn how to install Sass with Foundation and get it up and running in a free online code editor so that setting it up will be a lot easier if you are new to Sass.

We will also cover the very basics of Sass, but if you want to get more familiar with Sass outside of this book, there are some really good tools and ways to install Sass on your machine at http://sass-lang.com/install. On the left-hand side of the page, there are free and paid cross-platform apps to get you compiling Sass quickly without knowing any command line...