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Learning Zurb Foundation

By : Kevin Horek
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Learning Zurb Foundation

By: Kevin Horek

Overview of this book

<p>Responsive web design is the next big thing in web design right now. It allows you to control and adapt to the user experience across a variety of devices, screens, and resolutions. Foundation is one of the most well-known responsive frameworks available, and allows you to speed up the prototyping, designing, and theming of your web project; as well as allowing you to create your own custom themes to suit your needs. It makes your life easier by giving you a grid, elements, and JavaScript functions that are responsive and easily customized to work with any web or mobile project that arises.</p> <p>This book starts off with teaching you the basics, and gradually moves on to cover the most advanced parts of this amazing framework. You will learn how to use Foundation to prototype, design, and theme your projects as well as discover how to use the framework with any programming language or content management system.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning Zurb Foundation
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The index file


Now, let's open the index.html file in the root of our project directory. The only real differences you will notice in the index.html file, as we are using the Sass version of Foundation compared to the default version we were using in the previous chapters, are the JavaScript files that are now being put in the bower_components folder and called from that folder. If you are not familiar with Bower, it is a package manager for the Web and you can read more about it at http://bower.io/. If you do not know what a package manager is, it is not really going to affect your progress with this book, but you should read up on what Bower is and how it can save your time when building your web projects on Bower. If you open the bower_components folder, you will see a bunch of JS libraries, Foundation, JQuery, and a few other JS libraries that Foundation needs to run. The libraries are being managed and installed through the Bower Package Manager. We installed Bower when we were installing...