Chapter 1
Working Faster with Twitter Bootstrap
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding what Twitter Bootstrap does
Viewing layouts created with Twitter Bootstrap
Creating web page elements using Twitter Bootstrap
“Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.”
— ALDOUS HUXLEY
Twitter Bootstrap is a free toolkit that allows users to create web pages quickly and with great consistency. In 2011 two Twitter developers, Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton, created the toolkit for internal use at Twitter and soon afterward released it to the general public. Before Bootstrap, developers would create common web page features over and over again and each time slightly differently, leading to increased time spent on maintenance. Bootstrap has become one of the most popular tools used in creating websites and is used by NASA and Newsweek for their websites. With a basic understanding of HTML and CSS, you can use and customize Bootstrap layouts and elements for your own projects.
In this chapter, you discover what Bootstrap does and how to use it. You also discover the various layouts and elements that you can quickly and easily create when using Bootstrap.
Figuring Out What Bootstrap ...
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