Step By Step Bootstrap 3: A Quick Guide to Responsive Web Development Using Bootstrap 3
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Learn how to create multi-column layout, navigation bar, carousel, progress bar, popover, form validation and more. Find out how to easily customize Bootstrap to fit your style. Learn by example: all examples are fully tested and downloadable. You can reuse them on your own project. Build a responsive website from scratch - step by step. See the end result here: http://bit.ly/p-crsl Why This Book One of the big challenges in web development is maintaining the site's compatibility across devices and their various display sizes, from desktop computers to tablets and mobile phones. The last thing we want is to have a website that looks good on a desktop but is painful to navigate on a small display, or looks great on a small screen but appears oddly tiny in the center of a large screen. Ideally the site should have the ability to automatically reorganize itself to provide the optimal viewing experience, in accordance with the size of the display. In short, we want our website to be responsive. This is where Bootstrap 3 comes in handy. It makes building responsive websites easier and quicker. Aimed at absolute beginners, this book will not require you to have any experience in HTML, CSS or JQuery. You will learn as you go along. It explains the subject matter in a step by step fashion, with plenty of examples and screenshots to illustrate the points. All examples are downloadable. You can download, tweak and reuse them on your own project. You will not have to to retype everything. Who Should NOT Buy This Book If you are able to learn on your own by perusing the online documentation provided by Bootstrap, you do not need this book. Before you open your wallet, check out Bootstrap's official site and give it a go. What you will get from this book This book will guide you in transforming a simple HTML page into a responsive one. It will demonstrate how to use Bootstrap's grid system to create a multi-column layout. It will also guide you in creating a navigation bar, different types of menus (with or without dropdowns), buttons, icons, modal and tables. The book will also cover forms and form validations, where you will create a Sign Up page with some validation procedures to examine the data entered and display a warning when appropriate. Needless to say, this book will be incomplete without a lesson on customizing Bootstrap to fit your own style. The book will cover light customization that will illustrate how you can change fonts, colors and background images to make the page your own. Light customization however is good only for minimal changes in the design. To tweak the design further, you will be better off using LESS. Therefore one chapter will be dedicated to demonstrate the customization using LESS. Towards the end of the book, we will throw in some more Bootstrap components that can increase your site's appeal. You will learn about Carousel, Affix, Scrollspy, Tooltip, Popover, Collapse and Progress Bar. Not only you will learn how to display them, you will also utilize some of the controls to make them work. As the last lesson, you will learn how to show or hide certain parts of the page depending on the size of the screen. For the absolute beginners, quick introductions to CSS, LESS and compiling LESS are provided in the appendices. If you are looking for a step by step guide to responsive web development using Bootstrap, you may want to give this book a try. Review: Good book for beginners - *** Update Oct 23, 2014 The book has been updated since I wrote my review below. It has more contents and covers more areas. The part about the progress bar actually helped solved the problem I had been struggling for a while. The explanation on LESS is good too. I gave three stars before. One additional star for the additional contents, and another star for listening to readers' input and improving the book. I like that. --------- Pros: It does exactly what it says. It really is step by step. The book guides the web page development starting from scratch and building up to a real web page. (The end result is nice, actually. I like it). Well illustrated, well explained. Very easy to understand. It gets me started to build my own page really quick. Never thought bootstrap is this easy. Cons: It does not cover everything. The book left me wanting more. All in all, It is worth the money. Recommended only if you are completely new to bootstrap. Review: nice introduction - Is a really nice introduction to boostrap. If you are a beginner this is a book for you. If you are looking more advance topics. This book is not for you. I'm a advance bootstrap user and I still find it useful. I think you sometimes get to deep and forget the basics. This is a good reminder. Really fast to read get you started with a couple pages in no time
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C**L
Good book for beginners
*** Update Oct 23, 2014 The book has been updated since I wrote my review below. It has more contents and covers more areas. The part about the progress bar actually helped solved the problem I had been struggling for a while. The explanation on LESS is good too. I gave three stars before. One additional star for the additional contents, and another star for listening to readers' input and improving the book. I like that. --------- Pros: It does exactly what it says. It really is step by step. The book guides the web page development starting from scratch and building up to a real web page. (The end result is nice, actually. I like it). Well illustrated, well explained. Very easy to understand. It gets me started to build my own page really quick. Never thought bootstrap is this easy. Cons: It does not cover everything. The book left me wanting more. All in all, It is worth the money. Recommended only if you are completely new to bootstrap.
J**S
nice introduction
Is a really nice introduction to boostrap. If you are a beginner this is a book for you. If you are looking more advance topics. This book is not for you. I'm a advance bootstrap user and I still find it useful. I think you sometimes get to deep and forget the basics. This is a good reminder. Really fast to read get you started with a couple pages in no time
A**D
Strap into Bootstrap
I have been wanting to learn Bootstrap for a while but never set aside the time to read the documentation online. l'm currently on chapter 21 of the book which deals with progress bars. Since I picked up this book, I have thoroughly enjoyed getting up to speed on how to use Bootstrap and all that you can do to customize your website with this framework. It was well worth the money and the time to get up to speed with this topic. The book offers short chapters and showcases the start of a topic and then what you can do to customize that 'widget'. I did find that the table striping did not work correctly and did a basic search on why it didn't work correctly...even the online demo's didn't produce the effect. I highly recommend this book if you want to get up to speed on Bootstrap. Easy to follow examples that allow you to get up and running fast.
E**H
Most informative. Covers wide enough grounds for my need.
Needed to use Bootstrap at work so I purchased some books on the subject. I found this book to be the most informative. The explanations are clear, straightforward, and it covers wide enough grounds that I found everything I needed to get started. Generous amount of illustrations and screen captures. That helps me to understand the concept without having to use my computer. The examples are reusable, and I like that for every example there is a download link, so I can pick to download only the ones I need. Very practical and saves me a lot of time. This is the book to read when in a hurry to get into production.
Q**I
It is a very helpful quick start.
This book is organized very well for beginners. The explanations of the code are very clear. It preps me for deeper learning.
J**.
This is not just an excellent book, but the author is an extremely skilled ...
I rarely write reviews in Amazon (or anywhere else). When I do, it is because a product is either truly exceptional, or it is really awful and people should know. This is not just an excellent book, but the author is an extremely skilled educator. The reason why is that many "how to books" like this one are several hundred pages of text with examples that that do not build upon themselves. This author has done a superb job explaining everything very well without a lot of unnecessary text, and he has done so in a way where the examples build upon themselves and are also good references individually. This is the first author I have "followed" on Amazon and I will eagerly await the next books he writes on web development. Thanks Riwanto - excellent, excellent job with this.
C**9
More of a "cookbook", than a book that starts at the foundation and works it way up
This is more of a "cookbook" style book. The author does not really explain the philosophy or foundation of what bootstrap is, how it works, or why one would want to use it. He basically jumps right in and starts showing examples of how to do certain things. For example, there is no detailed discussion on the the grid/column philosophy. It is not a bad book, but it does not really start you off on a good foundation to really understand what bootstrap is and why it was written.
A**.
Well written, can be followed to a T
I bought this to enhance my learning HTML and web design, this book is easy to follow and explains the concept of Boostrap fairly well. In all my years I have yet to find a programmer that had a knack for teaching the skill as well as performing it. The book has examples to follow, you won’t be an expert, but you will have a good grasp on how to work this.
F**O
Highly recommended
Great book about Bootstrap, it covers everything you need to develop a real world good looking and responsive web UI.
M**C
Nice book and easy to follow
It's certainly a step by step guide, really easy to follow even for non native english speakers, is clear and with may examples of configuration.
I**Z
Aprendizaje con Bootstrap 3
Buen libro para aprender como funciona Bootstrap, como instalarlo y hacerlo correo en nuestro sitio web, despuès podemos partir hacia un conocimiento mayor con otros libros o tutoriales y ejemplos del mismo sitio de boot strap. El inconveniente es que el libro enseña una version mkuy utilizada, pero que ya empieza a quedarse atras por las nuevas versiones de boot strap
T**R
Einstieg in Bootstrap --- englische Sprachkenntnisse vorausgesetzt!
Wer eine schnelle Einführung in die Umsetzung einer "responsive" Website mit Bootstrap sucht, ist hier gut bedient. "Responsive" sollte heute jede Website sein. Haben Sie sich auch schon mal geärgert, wenn der Inhalt einer Seite im Browser so fuzzlich klein ist, dass diese kaum zu lesen ist? Und dann die Navigation! Spreizen, Wischen, daneben Tippen, wieder Ärgern. Schritt für Schritt wird in diesem Buch der Entwurf einer "responsive" Webiste mit verschiedenen Elementen einschließlich Menüs zu Navigation mit Bootstrap erläutert. Lassen Sie sich überraschen, wie einfach eine große Zahl an Gestaltungselementen dank Bootstrap mit recht geringem Aufwand realisiert werden kann. In 22 Lektionen werden Sie an die Elemente heran geführt, mit Beispielen (HTML-Code, "so siehts aus") und am Ende jeder Lektion mit Link zum Beispiel bzw. Download. Der in Englisch verfasste Text ist leicht verständlich, der Satz des Buches mit ausreichend großen Buchstaben macht beim Lesen Lust auf das nächste Kapitel. Abgerundet wird das Buch durch einen 2-seitigen Index. Auch nach dem Lesen (und Anwenden) ist diese Büchlein ein gutes Nachschlagewerk, dass ich immer gerne zur Hand habe.
R**D
Bootstrap from 0 to 60 in 4 or 5 hours
Well done! The ideal audience for this book is someone who can make their way around HTML, CSS, likely Javascript too, AND knows absolutely nothing about Bootstrap. But by the time you finish this book you will be flying in the Bootstrap sense. Money well spent.
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