Eric Tendian

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Twitter Bootstrap test run complete!

Recently I discovered this awesome web framework developed by the folks over at Twitter: Twitter Bootstrap. They used it to standardize the user interface on all their pages. So, I thought I’d give it a try, using my club Tech Squared’s website as the test subject. Two hours later, I had a working website. For this project, I started with the starter example and went from there. The content and basic layout was already completed from an earlier design iteration, so I just needed to extract the content and add some HTML. After getting the web copy finished, it was just a matter of adding the content to the structural elements of Bootstrap. Luckily, the framework has great documentation so that was easy. I did do some CSS edits on the theme, United. I also added a smooth scrolling jQuery plugin to smoothly scroll to the specific section when a menu element was clicked (from this post)...

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