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Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Bootstrap Site Blueprints
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Bootstrap Site Blueprints
Credits
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Credits
About the Authors
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About the Authors
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
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Preface
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Preface
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Getting Started with Bootstrap
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Getting Started with Bootstrap
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Quantity and quality
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Downloading Bootstrap
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Preparing a project template folder
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Pulling in the Bootstrap files
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Taking inventory
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Setting up the HTML template file
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Giving your site a title
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Providing a navbar markup
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Compiling and linking default Bootstrap CSS
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Summary
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Bootstrappin' Your Portfolio
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Bootstrappin' Your Portfolio
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What we'll build
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Surveying the exercise files
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Marking up the carousel
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Creating responsive columns
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Turning links into buttons
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Understanding the power of LESS
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Customizing Bootstrap's LESS according to our needs
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Adding the logo image
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Adjusting nav item padding
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Adding icons
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Adding Font Awesome icons
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Adjusting the navbar icon color
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Adjusting the responsive navbar breakpoint
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Styling the carousel
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Tweaking the columns and their content
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Styling the footer
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Recommended next steps
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Summary
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Bootstrappin' a WordPress Theme
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Bootstrappin' a WordPress Theme
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Downloading and renaming the Roots theme
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Installing the theme
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Configuring the navbar
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Bringing in our home page content
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Customizing a page template
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Understanding the Roots base template
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Creating a custom base template
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Using custom fields for a custom structure
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Creating a custom content template
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Putting the footer content in place
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Surveying the Roots assets folder
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Swapping design assets
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Connecting our stylesheet
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Connecting our JavaScript files
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Adding logo images to the navbar and footer
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Adding icon links
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Adding back WordPress-specific styles
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Summary
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Bootstrappin' Business
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Bootstrappin' Business
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Sizing up our beginning files
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Creating a complex banner area
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Adding utility navigation
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Making responsive adjustments
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Implementing the color scheme
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Styling the collapsed navbar
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Designing a complex responsive layout
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Laying out a complex footer
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Bootstrappin' E-commerce
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Bootstrappin' E-commerce
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Surveying the markup for our products page
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Styling the breadcrumbs, page title, and pagination
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Adjusting the products grid
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Styling the options sidebar
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Bootstrappin' a One-page Marketing Website
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Bootstrappin' a One-page Marketing Website
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Overview
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Surveying the starter files
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Viewing the page content
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Adjusting the navbar
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Customizing the jumbotron
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Beautifying the features list
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Tackling customer reviews
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Creating attention-grabbing pricing tables
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Adding the final touches
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Adding ScrollSpy to the navbar
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Summary
Optimizing Site Assets
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Optimizing Site Assets
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Optimizing images
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Optimizing CSS
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Optimizing JavaScript
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Our optimized results
Implementing Responsive Images
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Implementing Responsive Images
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Considering our portfolio carousel
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Choosing a solution from the available solutions
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Our end results
Adding Swipe to the Carousel
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Adding Swipe to the Carousel
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Considering our options
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Getting and including the TouchSwipe plugin
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Initializing TouchSwipe
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Index

Optimizing images

Our images have already been optimized to a degree using Photoshop's "save to web" process. But, together, they still weigh in at 856 KB.

The images are important. (It's a portfolio site after all.) However, this is a considerable payload. In Appendix B, Implementing Responsive Images, I recommend a responsive image technique that will reduce the file size for smaller devices. But even without that technique, if we can reduce the file size by compressing these files more effectively, we should do it.

We can usually squeeze out a few more pixels without damaging our images by using tools such as Yahoo!'s Smushit (http://www.smushit.com/).

For Mac users, the free ImageOptim app at http://imageoptim.com/ is a similarly helpful tool. By using it in this case, I've been able to shave a total of 29 KB off my combined image weight.

That's not a gigantic gain, but every bit helps a little. Let's keep going.

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