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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)

About the Reviewers

Vinay Kumar Atthelli has more than eight years of experience as a developer of frontend GUIs for web and mobile related applications. He is an avid WordPress developer and a creative person. He graduated from the Osmania University, Hyderabad. He also possess entrepreneurial skills and a keen eye for detail in every project he undertakes.

With extensive knowledge in HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery, he is also enthusiastic about SEO and social media. His interests extend beyond web and he loves helping people. Teaching is his passion—he is interested in teaching technologies and marketing strategies. He also loves building startups and SaaS.

In the words of Wilfried Rijsemus, Director Professional Development and Community at Cordys:

"Vinay is too modest if you measure his performance against his demeanor. Do not underestimate the resilience and tenacity in which he drives his products. His work was deemed by a Gartner analyst as the "benchmark to beat" and that quote came unsolicited! He is a hard working team mate who never leaves your side and will always deliver when you need it. He is an excellent wingman, a black hole in learning, and on his way to a mature thought and execution leader. I'm proud to have him on my team."

Bass Jobsen is from the Netherlands and has been programming on the Web since 1995. From C to PHP, he is always looking for the most accessible interfaces. He has a special interest in the process that takes place between the designing and programming stages. Interfaces should work independent of the device or browser! For these reasons, working with grids and meta languages in designs make him happy. He is looking forward to new opportunities in the semantic and responsive web.

He is always happy to help you at http://stackoverflow.com/users/1596547/bass-jobsen.

At the moment he is involved in writing a blog (http://bassjobsen.weblogs.fm), programming LBS for mobile devices (http://www.gizzing.nl), making cool websites like http://www.streetart.nl/, and counseling Jamedo websites (http://www.jamedowebsites.nl) on setting up the technical environment and the requirements for their business.

Also, checkout his Bootstrap WordPress Starter Theme and other projects at GitHub (https://github.com/bassjobsen).