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Getting Started with Zurb Foundation 4

By : Andrew D. Patterson
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Getting Started with Zurb Foundation 4

By: Andrew D. Patterson

Overview of this book

<p>Every web designer needs a toolkit. From text editors to graphics programs, from table structures to fluid style sheets, the web designer has many tools and techniques to choose from. Zurb's Foundation framework is an excellent kit for today's web designer. It's fluid, it's easy to work with, it has plenty of components, and most importantly, you can apply your creativity to make your very own designs.<br /><br />Zurb's Foundation 4 is a practical, easy-to-use toolkit for the layout and construction of web pages. Getting Started with Zurb Foundation 4 introduces Zurb Foundation’s powerful web design and development toolkit. Learn how to create professional layouts with ease, add powerful CSS and JavaScript components to your pages, and then customize and configure the design to your satisfaction. Understand how to efficiently manage your CSS and layout your pages with SASS, the style sheet language. This book will help you put Foundation 4 to work for you today!<br /><br />This book documents Foundation's grid system, all its components and plugins, and its generation of custom style sheets. The book serves as an all-encompassing introduction as well as a future reference guide. The foundation of Foundation is its grid system...and there is a whole lot more.<br /><br />Once you've covered the basics, you'll be ready to advance with SASS, the style sheet language, to customize your installation and layout your pages.<br /><br />With this book, you will discover all the CSS components and JavaScript plugins that are included in Foundation at the present time and learn how to integrate each of them into your web pages.</p>
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Summary


If you could learn only one thing from this book, the most important would be to understand the grid system. It is the basis for web page layout with Foundation, and with it, you can create professional sites with ease.

In this chapter we learned how Foundation's grid system is comprised of cells, rows, and columns. We learned to manipulate rows, columns, and the space between them to get different effects. We learned how content in general, images in particular, both influence and are constrained by the grid system. Throughout, we took home some tips that allow us to create our own styles to improve control over our grid-based layout.

Now that you've mastered the grid system, in the next chapter we'll dig into all the additional components included in the Foundation toolkit that only require style sheets to work. You may not use all of them right away, but it helps to be aware of the possibilities, how to put them to work, and how to tweak them to your preferences.