Packt Publishing – Building a Responsive Site with Zurb Foundation

Packt Publishing – Building a Responsive Site with Zurb Foundation

A fascinating journey from the very basics of Zurb Foundation to a complete responsive website

A fascinating journey from the very basics of Zurb Foundation to a complete responsive website

About This Video

• Use grid layouts effectively to create a consistent experience on all mobile devices and desktops
• Beautify your page and enable automatic content structuring using accordion and equalizer
• Program your site to adapt to any screen size using interchange and specific lightweight content

In Detail

Zurb Foundation is one of the most diffused best performing front-end design frameworks out there.

Dealing with browser compatibility, media queries, style consistency, and effective layouts could be a huge pain today, but Foundation comes to the rescue. With minimal effort, it allows you to create a production ready, responsive website or is a great starting point for a highly customized project.

Building a Responsive Site with Zurb Foundation will show you every major aspect of the framework, as well as general best practices and workflow tips, guiding you through the process of creating a live mock-up for a photography website. Every video will introduce some of Foundation’s features and will use them to enhance the website in order to provide a practical experience with all the topics.

The course begins with an empty folder, where we’ll install the Zurb Foundation framework and will start adding new pages and enhancements to cover all the key aspects of the framework itself.

We begin our journey by explaining why there is a need for a framework, how to set up a modern working environment, and how to scaffold a new project with Zurb Foundation. We’ll then immediately introduce some responsive design key concept as well as the advantages of a mobile-first approach and how Foundation helps us with these scenarios.

As we advance through the course, we’ll introduce all the major aspects of the framework, translating them in working code for our website. We are going to deal with navigation techniques as well as typography, content elements, and forms. As we come to an end, we’ll emphasize how to deal with media elements in a responsive environment, trying out different approaches to effectively show image galleries both on desktop and mobile.

Through the whole course, we’ll witness some general best practices such as using a semantic mark-up using SASS and how to optimize our work for deployment. Finally, we’ll cover some JavaScript elements, showing how Foundation helps us introduce some dynamism on our website with nearly no programming knowledge.

At the end of the course, you will have the skills to create responsive websites starting from scratch by making use of all the Foundation elements.

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Course Curriculum

Introducing Foundation

• What Is a Framework? (2:35)
• Understanding the Working Environment (2:42)
• Installing Foundation (2:36)
• Why Use SASS? (2:55)
• Scaffolding Our Website (3:01)

Making Our Site Responsive

• Learning Media Queries (3:29)
• Grasping the Grid System (2:52)
• Seeing Visibility Classes (3:33)
• Why to Go Mobile First? (2:58)
• Using interchange.js (2:53)

Navigating the site

• Browsing Off-canvas on Mobile (3:01)
• Incorporating the Top Bar (2:36)
• Implementing the Sticky-nav (2:55)
• Incorporating the Side-nav (3:21)
• Using Dropdowns (3:13)

Structuring the Content

• Incorporating Tabs (2:47)
• Beautiful Typography (2:50)
• Implementing a Pricing Table (2:35)t
• Learning Accordions (2:36)
• Using the Equalizer (2:20)t

Adding Media Content

• Incorporating Thumbnails (3:10)
• Understanding the Block Grid (2:14)
• Incorporating Flex-video (3:27)
• Learning ‘Interchange’ (3:49)
• Using Lightboxes (2:47)

Constructing Forms

• Creating Basic Forms (2:11)
• Understanding Form Utilities (2:07)
• Implementing Switches and Ranges (3:12)t
• Using Abide Validation (2:48)

Buttons and UI Elements

• Customizing Buttons (3:29)
• Using Panels and Alerts (2:58)
• Learning Tooltips (2:05)
• Adding Modals (2:37)
• Incorporating Pagination and Breadcrumbs (3:30)

Conclusions

• Customizing Foundation (2:51)
• Optimizing for Deployment (2:41)
• Using Templates and the Zurb Playground (2:41)
• What Have We Learned So Far? (2:55)
• Where to Go from Here? (3:21)

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