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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

Customizing the template


Let's start the last blueprint by copying our boilerplate project and creating a new one called Chapter 7. Open the _data.json file and insert the following code:

{
  "index": {
    "pageTitle": "Home"
  },
  "activity-feed": {
    "pageTitle": "Activity Feed"
  },
  "notifications": {
    "pageTitle": "Notifications"
  },
  "messages": {
    "pageTitle": "Messages"
  },
  "friends": {
    "pageTitle": "Friends"
  }
}

For this project, we are going to create five page templates. Let's start by creating the files in the root of our project. For now, they can just be blank, and we'll start to fill them in a little later:

  • index.ejs

  • activity-feed.ejs

  • notifications.ejs

  • messages.ejs

  • friends.ejs

Updating _layout.ejs

Next, let's update the _layout.ejs file in the root of our new project. The layout for the profile page doesn't have any major differences. Make sure you include the line of code that will import Roboto as your web font:

<link href='https://fonts.googleapis...