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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

Coding the header and footer


Let's set up the header and footer for our social networking website. It's going to be made up of the regular Bootstrap navbar component, with some new customizations. The main new items will be an icon-based navigation, a search bar, a utility drop-down menu, and some mobile-specific styling.

Updating the header

I'll start out by showing you the code for the entire header, and then we'll dissect the parts that we need to update. Start off by creating a file called _header.ejs, and save it in the /partial directory. Then, insert this code:

<nav class="navbar navbar-default" role="navigation">
  <div class="container-fluid">
    <div class="navbar-header">
      <button type="button" class="navbar-toggle collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#navbar1">
        <span class="sr-only">Toggle navigation</span>
        <span class="icon-bar"></span>
        <span class="icon-bar"></span>
        &lt...