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Responsive Web Design by Example : Beginner's Guide

By : Thoriq Firdaus
Book Image

Responsive Web Design by Example : Beginner's Guide

By: Thoriq Firdaus

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Responsive Web Design by Example Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – composing the website styles with LESS syntax


Perform the following steps to style the website:

  1. Add a new font family from Google Font. Herein, I opted for Varela Round (http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Varela+Round). Place the following Google Font link before any other style sheets:

    <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Varela+Round' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
  2. We will customize the default styles by changing some variables. Open var-bootstrap.less in Sublime Text. First, we change the @brand-primary variable that defines the Bootstrap primary color; change it from #428bca to #46acb8:

  3. Also, change the color in the @brand-success variable from #5cb85c to #7ba47c:

  4. Change the @headings-font-family variable, which defines the font family used in the headings, from inherit to "Varela Round", as follows:

    @headings-font-family: "Varela Round", @font-family-sans-serif; 
  5. The Bootstrap default style shows a glowing effect when the user focusses on a form...