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Pieter van der Westhuizen
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Pieter van der Westhuizen

Pieter van der Westhuizen is a freelance software and web developer specializing in ASP.NET MVC, web technologies, and MS Office development. He started his career in web development using classic ASP, Visual InterDev, HoTMetaL, and FrontPage. Pieter has over 16 years of experience in the IT industry and is also one of the people fortunate enough to have his hobby become his full-time profession. He is also a technology evangelist for Add-in Express (www.add-in-express.com), which focuses on tools for Microsoft Office integration. This is Pieter's second book and he has been blogging since 2007 on his personal blog at www.mythicalmanmoth.com and on the Add-in Express blog since 2010. He lives with his wife and two dogs in Pretoria, South Africa.
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The Bootstrap grid system

In 2015 Google said "more Google searches take place on mobile devices than on computers in 10 countries including the US and Japan". (http://adwords.blogspot.co.za/2015/05/building-for-next-moment.html) This means that chances are more people are browsing your website with a mobile device than a traditional desktop computer.

The Bootstrap grid system is mobile-first, which means it is designed to target devices with smaller displays and then grow as the display size increases. It uses a 12-column layout with different tiers for each media query range.

Bootstrap Grid components

Think of the Bootstrap grid system as similar to a traditional HTML table. It primarily consists of three components:

  • Containers

  • Rows

  • Columns

Containers

Containers are required in order to use the Bootstrap grid system, and are used to wrap and center the page content and to specify a proper width for the layout. As the name implies, it acts as a container for the grid's rows and columns and is a...

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Pieter van der Westhuizen is a freelance software and web developer specializing in ASP.NET MVC, web technologies, and MS Office development. He started his career in web development using classic ASP, Visual InterDev, HoTMetaL, and FrontPage. Pieter has over 16 years of experience in the IT industry and is also one of the people fortunate enough to have his hobby become his full-time profession. He is also a technology evangelist for Add-in Express (www.add-in-express.com), which focuses on tools for Microsoft Office integration. This is Pieter's second book and he has been blogging since 2007 on his personal blog at www.mythicalmanmoth.com and on the Add-in Express blog since 2010. He lives with his wife and two dogs in Pretoria, South Africa.
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