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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

The Menu page


It's time to code the tastiest part of our restaurant website (sorry, that was a terrible pun). For our menu page, we'll use a three-column layout combined with some additional modal popups for our featured dishes. The following is a preview of what the page will look like:

As you can see, I've kept the layout pretty minimal, which is my style and will transfer well to the mobile view. Let's start by going over the page header style that is used for each section of the menu.

Customizing the .page-header class

For each section of the menu, I'm using a <h2> tag with the Bootstrap .page-header class to make it stand out. Here's what the code looks like:

<h2 class="page-header">Appetizers</h2>

Since we don't want our site to look like a generic Bootstrap project, I'm going to customize the look and feel of the page-header component:

.page-header {
  padding-bottom: (@padding * 1.5);
  margin: @margin 0;
  border-bottom: (@border-size * 5) @border-type @border-color...