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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

Why is the setup so complicated?


By now, you must be thinking, "Boy, why is this so complicated?" Well, it is complicated, but once you use all this stuff a few times and understand it, the time you save on your projects will be well worth the time it took to fully understand it. This is the main reason why we set up this chapter's code in Codio and not on your local machine. If you are new to this stuff, it might be overwhelming but keep using Codio for your Foundation with Sass projects. Then, once you fully understand it, try installing all the parts listed at the beginning of this chapter on your local machine and get it running. You will really understand what Codio is doing for you when you start to move outside of it and onto your local machine. There are simpler ways to use Sass, but Foundation is not using them. So, we are going through how to use Foundation with Sass in the simplest way we can by using an online editor (Codio) and you can view my code through this as well. Codio...