Setting up and customizing a responsive single page webdesign with Bootstrap
Bootstrap is a UI Framework initially created by Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton at Twitter. It is an amazing source of styles, icons, and behaviors, abstracted to define and enrich components. Bootstrap offers an easy, rational, and unified set of patterns for defining styles. It had no equivalent before. If you have never used it, you will be excited to get so much visual feedback from a quick definition of the DOM.
In June 2014 it was the number 1 project on GitHub with over 73,000 stars and more than 27,000 forks. Their documentation is very fluid and easy to go through.
Getting ready
In this recipe, we will use Bootstrap to set up the web-design basics for our CloudStreet Market project from an existing Bootstrap theme. We will remake the index.jsp page to render a better looking welcome page that can be previewed with the following screenshot.
How to do it...
There are three major steps in this recipe:
- Installing...
