Design mobile-first responsive websites with Bootstrap 3 Overview Learn the inner workings of Bootstrap 3 and create web applications with ease Quickly customize your designs working directly with Bootstraps LESS files Leverage Bootstraps excellent JavaScript plugins In Detail Since its debut in August 2011, Twitter Bootstrap, now simply Bootstrap, has become by far the most popular framework for empowering and enhancing frontend web design. With Version 3, Bootstrap reaches an exciting new milestone, introducing a mobile-first responsive grid, new and powerful LESS mixins, and a lean code base optimized for modern browsers. "Bootstrap Site Blueprints" is a hands-on guide to the inner workings of Bootstraps latest and greatest development milestone. In an easy-to-follow, step-by-step format, youll quickly get to know the ins and outs of Bootstrap while building a portfolio site, a WordPress theme, a business site, an e-commerce interface, and administration interface, and an upscale marketing site. "Bootstrap Site Blueprints" guides you through the process of building different types of web applications, by leveraging the power of Bootstrap 3. In the process, youll experience the power of customizing and recompiling Bootstraps LESS files and adapting Bootstraps JavaScript plugins, to the design of an excellent user interface. While creating these layouts, you will quickly become comfortable with customizing Bootstrap to meet the needs of your specific projects. You will add custom icon fonts, customize and recompile Bootstraps powerful LESS files, and leverage Bootstraps excellent JavaScript plugins to create dynamic user interfaces. By the end of this book you will be a more adept and efficient designer. What you will learn from this book Set up a custom Bootstrap project Customize and recompile Bootstraps LESS files Incorporate custom icon fonts Write your own LESS variables and mixins Translate a Bootstrap design into a WordPress theme Leverage Bootstraps powerful JavaScript plugins Incorporate non-Bootstrap JavaScript plugins into your design Optimize Bootstrap CSS and JavaScript for performance Implement the PictureFill responsive images method Add touch swipe functionality to the Bootstrap carousel Approach A hands-on guide with projects based on fictitious, but common, application development briefs, which will illustrate practical ways of applying responsive web design with Bootstrap. Who this book is written for Whether you are a beginner or intermediate web developer, if you wish to make the most of Bootstrap, then this book is for you. You should be familiar with the fundamentals of HTML and CSS, and have some experience incorporating JavaScript plugins. Prior Bootstrap experience is optional.