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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

Going over the default settings file


Now, let's make sure that Sass is working and try making a change to the Foundation Sass variables file. So, in the Sass folder, open the _settings.scss file. This is the extension of a Sass file. There are two ways you can write Sass, and therefore, you might see Sass files with the extension of .sass. This allows you to write Sass without any semicolons and curly brackets, and spacing of your code becomes more important. We will not cover this in this book because Foundation is not using this format and it is deprecated and not that common anymore, but it should be mentioned.

Now that you have the _settings.scss file open, you will notice two things. First, there is an underscore in the file name; this is to show that this file is being included. It is not needed. It is just a nice visual way to show which files are getting included. The second thing you will see is a long file with most of it commented out. These are default variables that you can change...