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Published inAug 2016
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Matt Lambert
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Matt Lambert is a designer and developer with 15+ years of experience. He currently works full-time as a Senior Software Engineer for CA Technologies in Vancouver, BC, Canada. In his free time he is an author, artist, and musician. In 2005, Matt founded Cardeo Creative, which is a small web design studio based in Vancouver. He works with a select list of clients on a part-time basis while producing his own products on the side. To date, Matt has self-published 3 additional development books titled: Mastering Bootstrap, CSS3 Handbook, and the Freelance Startup Guide.
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Setting up the blog project


As I mentioned earlier, we're going to be building a blog throughout this book as we learn to use Bootstrap 4. Let's start by creating a new directory and call it something like Bootstrap Blog. Open up that folder and create the following sub-directories inside it:

  • css

  • fonts

  • img

  • js

  • partial

css

The css directory will hold the Bootstrap framework's CSS file and a custom theme file which we'll build later on. Go to the Bootstrap source file directory and locate the dist/css folder. From there, copy bootstrap.min.css to our new blog project's css directory.

fonts

The fonts directory will hold either a font icon library such as Glyphicon or Font Awesome. Previously, Bootstrap shipped with Glyphicon but they have dropped it in version 4. If you wish to use it, you'll need to download the icon font set and then drop the files into this directory. You could also include a web font that you may want to use on your project in this directory. If you are looking for web fonts, a good...

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Matt Lambert

Matt Lambert is a designer and developer with 15+ years of experience. He currently works full-time as a Senior Software Engineer for CA Technologies in Vancouver, BC, Canada. In his free time he is an author, artist, and musician. In 2005, Matt founded Cardeo Creative, which is a small web design studio based in Vancouver. He works with a select list of clients on a part-time basis while producing his own products on the side. To date, Matt has self-published 3 additional development books titled: Mastering Bootstrap, CSS3 Handbook, and the Freelance Startup Guide.
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