Sunday, August 18, 2013

5 Great Twitter Bootstrap Tutorials For Bootstrap Newbies

Twitter Bootstrap is one of the fastest growing website and web application development frameworks, if not the fastest. Today we’ve compiled a list of 5 great Twitter Bootstrap Tutorials for those new to the Twitter Bootstrap Framework.

2 Great Twitter Bootstrap Tutorial Video Series

Today we bring you two great Twitter Bootstrap Tutorials Video Series. Both currently on YouTube.

Working with SASS and Bootstrap Tutorial

Twitter’s Bootstrap is built on the LESS CSS preporocessor. However, many developers prefer to work with SASS. If you fall into this category then this Twitter Bootstrap tutorial is what the doctor ordered.  To access the Quick Tip Working with SASS and Twitter Bootstrap tutorial click on the link below:

Twitter Bootstrap Design Templates (Not a tutorial, but helpful to those learning Twitter Bootstrap)

Today we veer off in a slightly different direction, and even though this isn’t particulary about Twitter Bootstrap tutorials, it is equally important to those learning Twitter Bootstrap. Before setting off to develop your first site or template based on Twitter Bootstrap, you’ll need to mockup a site design, and the tools we’ve listed below will help you immensely in this task.

3 Great Twitter Bootstrap Forms Tutorials

Twitter Bootstrap Forms Tutorial
Tutorials for learning about Twitter Bootstrap Forms
Want to learn more about Twitter Bootstrap Forms? Well you’ve come to right place today as we’ve got 3 great Twitter Bootstrap Forms Tutorials to show you. Here they are:

Twitter Bootstrap and Rails Tutorial

Twitter Bootstrap and Rails is a tutorial designed to show you how to set up a Rails application in order to use Twitter Bootstrap as a CSS/JavaScript/HTML5 front-end framework, providing an HTML5 application layout and CSS styling for Rails alerts and notices.

Dropbox File Uploader Twitter Bootstrap Tutorial

The guys at Tutorialzine have put together a really cool Twitter Bootstrap tutorial whereby you create a Dropbox file uploader.

Tweme – Twitter Bootstrap Theme for Drupal

Tweme is free Drupal Theme built on the Twitter Bootstrap framework. The theme delivers all features and functions of the Twitter Bootstrap web framework directly to your Drupal site. The Tweme Drupal theme is also both lightweight and responsive.

Twitter Bootstrap Tutorial – Handling Complex Designs

Much has been said and written about Twitter Bootstrap these days in the world of web designing and development. Some people call it a boon for web developers with zero designing knowledge, while others call it a blessing for the designers. Whatever it may be, it does things easier and faster.

Twitter Bootstrap with Less css

Less is a CSS preprocessor which makes CSS dynamic. Twitter Bootstrap on the other hand, is a toolkit to develop web apps and sites fast. In this document we have discussed about using Twitter Bootstrap with Less CSS. This way you can use Bootstrap’s Less variables, mixins, and nesting in CSS.

Twitter Bootstrap - Alerts and Errors Tutorial

Twitter Bootstrap allows you to style successful execution of a stuff, warning, and error messages of your website or app. In this tutorial you will learn how to do that.

Twitter Bootstrap - Pagination Tutorial

In this tutorial you will see how to create Pagination using Twitter Bootstrap.

Multicon-page pagination 


If you want to create pagination for your online application or for search results with your site or app, you may use this kind of pagination.
CSS class "pagination" of bootstrap.css, which is located from line number 2756 to 1814 holds styles for creating this kind of pagination.

Twitter Bootstrap - Breadcrumbs Tutorial

Using Twitter Bootstrap, you may create breadcrumbs. In this tutorial you will see how to do that. Here is what we will end up creating finally:

Twitter Bootstrap - Progress Bars Tutorial

In this tutorial you will see how to create progress bars for loading, redirecting, or action status, using Twitter Bootstrap.

Twitter Bootstrap - Thumbnails Tutorial

In this tutorial you will see how to create thumbnails, i.e. grids of images, videos, text, and more, using Twitter Bootstrap.
Thumbnails have a very simple as well as flexible markup. Moreover, you may use existing bootstrap css classes like .span2 or .span3 to set width and height of thumbnails.

Twitter Bootstrap - Inline Labels and Badges Tutorial

Using Twitter Bootstrap, you may create inline labels, i.e. Label and annotate text and badges, i.e. indicators and unread counts.

Inline labels

You may create eye catching labels and annotate text with Inline Labels.

Twitter Bootstrap - Navbar Tutorial

Using Twitter Bootstrap, you may create static navbar. In this tutorial you will see how to do that.

We will take an HTML5 page with content and see how to add a top navigation bar into it. Here is the final product :

 

And Here is the HTML5 code of the page without any content.

Twitter Bootstrap - Nav, Tabs and Pills Tutorial

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Twitter Bootstrap toolkit to create nav, tabs and pills based Navigations.
We have shown examples and explained basic tabs and pills based navigation, stacked or vertical tabs and pills based navigation, tabs and pills based dropdown, using nav list to build stacked navigation and building tabbable navigation using JavaScript (and that is too in different directions).

Twitter Bootstrap - Icons Tutorials

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create icons using Twitter Bootstrap toolkit Version 2.0. Twitter Bootstrap icons are provided by Glyphicons. If you are using these icons in your own project, please make sure to offer link and credit to Glyphicons.

Used as a CSS Sprite

All Icon images are bundled into one and used with background-position CSS property. The image file is glyphicons-halflings.png and it resides under img folder of the main Twitter Bootstrap folder. Styles (and background positions) of icons are specified form line number 1168 to 1544 of bootstrap.css.

Twitter Bootstrap - Forms Tutorial

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create forms using Twitter Bootstrap toolkit Version 2.0.
Twitter Bootstrap has styles for form controls like input, textarea, and select, it has support for lists and checkbox, has styles for disabled form controls and has included states like error, warning, and success for each form controls.
As of Version2.0, Twitter Bootstrap provides you with four types of form layouts -

Twitter Bootstrap - Tables Tutorial

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Twitter Bootstrap toolkit to create Tables.

Explanation

Form line number 1034 to 1167 of bootstrap.css of Twitter Bootstarp Version 2.0 contains styles for Tables.

Twitter Bootstrap - Typography Tutorial

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Twitter Bootstrap toolkit to create headings, paragraphs, lists and other inline elements.

Explanation

Form line number 286 to line number 515 of bootstrap.css of Twitter Bootstrap Version 2.0 contains styles for Typography. 

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Twitter Bootstrap - Responsive Web Design Tutorial

This tutorial is about how to apply responsive design feature into your web layout. And in the course, you will also learn about Responsive Web Design. With the proliferation of mobile devices, it has become almost unavoidable that you don't have a version of your website which users can view well when browsing through mobile devices. And Responsive Web Design is a very efficient way to serve the purpose.

Twitter Bootstrap - Layout Tutorial

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Twitter Bootstrap toolkit to create Fixed as well as fluid Layouts. The tutorial is based on Twitter Bootstrap Version 2.0, which is the latest version of Twitter Bootstrap as of this writing.
In version 2.0 Twitter Bootstrap has added a responsive feature for phone, tablet portrait, table landscape and small desktops, and large wide screen desktops.
You may make a layout responsive by adding bootstrap-responsive.css file (located under docs\assets\css) in to the page.

Twitter Bootstrap - Grid System Tutorial


In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Twitter Bootstrap to create a Grid System.
As you may know, in graphics design, a Grid system is a two dimensional structure made up of horizontal and vertical axes having intersecting areas, useful for structuring content. It is widely used to design layout and content structure in print design. In web design, it is a very effective method to create a consistent layout rapidly and effectively using HTML and CSS. Thus, Grid systems have become an essential component/module for web design framework or workflow.

Step By Step Twitter Bootstrap Tutorial


What is twitter bootstrap?
Twitter Bootstrap is a frontend framework to develop web apps and sites fast. It includes basic CSS and HTML for creating Grids, Layouts, Typography, Tables, Forms, Navigation, Alerts, Popovers etc. And along with that, comes a host of Jquery plugins to create awesome UI components like Transitions, Modal, Dropdown, Scrollspy, Tooltip, Tab, Popover, Alert, Button, Collapse, Carousel, Typeahead, Affix.
In this and consequent pages, bh24 covers Twitter Bootstrap tool in detail, which will equip you to build web apps and sites using the tool.
At the end of this page, we have created a simple Twitter Botstrap powered HTML Template. You can view a live demo, download the code and play around.