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Bootstrap Site Blueprints Volume II

By : Matt Lambert
Book Image

Bootstrap Site Blueprints Volume II

By: Matt Lambert

Overview of this book

Bootstrap is the most popular open source project on GitHub today. With a little bit of know-how, this massively popular CSS framework can leveraged for any type of complex web application or website. Bootstrap Site Blueprints Volume II will teach you to build these types of projects in an easy-to-understand fashion. The key to any complex Bootstrap project is a strong development foundation for your project. The book will first teach you how to build a Bootstrap development environment using Harp.js, Node, and Less. In the next chapters, we’ll build on this foundation by creating restaurant and mobile-first aggregator projects. Once you’re warmed up, we’ll move on to more complex projects such as a wiki, a new magazine, a dashboard, and finally a social networking website. Whether you are brand new to Bootstrap or a seasoned expert, this book will provide you with the skills you need to successfully create a number of popular web applications and websites.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Bootstrap Site Blueprints Volume II
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Setting up the Less variables


Now that we've finished our layout, it's time to move on to updating our Less variables. For this project, I'm not going to add any new colors. We're going to fall back to the colors from our original boilerplate. I want to give you a good example of how it's useful to have these stock colors for use on a project.

Background colors

Let's start by updating our background colors to use our boilerplate color values. As you'll see, I'm using @black for the primary background. This is because we're going to make this a dark colored design:

@primary-background: @black;
@secondary-background: @dark-grey;
@inverse-background: @white;

Text colors

Next, let's update our text colors and invert them to be readable on a dark background:

@primary-text: @white;
@light-text: @dark-grey;
@loud-text: @white;
@inverse-text: @white;
@heading-text: @light-grey;

Link colors

The same inverse color approach will be used to set the values for our links:

@primary-link-color: @light-grey;
@primary...