Monday, August 31, 2015

Introduction to Bootstrap

Bootstrap is a framework of HTML, CSS and JavaScript for developing responsive websites which is available free of cost. It contains all the basic tools which every website needed.

To download bootstrap click here.

Why Use It?

• CSS is can be tricky
• Cross browser support can be a challenge
• Solves basic tasks (e.g. page layout without tables)
• Bootstrap makes it easier

Bootstrap Features:


Theme Support
Responsive
Grid
Components (e.g pagination, buttons, modals)
Great Visual Studio support
•Customization
Lets take an example of defaulted template in visual studio based on bootstrap framework


we can also customize the whole template by applying themes on it


You can change theme of the template from bootswatch.com

It provides responsive layout to web pages.


Responsive grid is available in bootstrap


Bootstrap includes over 250 glyph icons in font format from the Glyphicon Halflings set.


Visual Studio intellisense supports bootstrap to select each class of the framework



Bootstrap free templates available on www.startbootstrap.com, you can customize it within the bootstrap framework and make an interactive user interface for the website.