Bootstrap 4

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From the course by University of Michigan

Advanced Styling with Responsive Design

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University of Michigan

Advanced Styling with Responsive Design

1091 ratings

Course 4 of 5 in the Specialization Web Design for Everybody (Basics of Web Development and Coding)

It used to be the case that everyone viewed webpages on about the same size screen. But with the explosion of the use of smartphones to access the Internet, the landscape of design has completely changed. People viewing your site will now expect that it will perform regardless of the platform (smartphone, tablet, laptop, or desktop computer). This ability to respond to any platform is called responsive design. This course will expand upon the basic knowledge of CSS3 to include topics such as wireframes, fluid design, media queries, and the use of existing styling paradigms such as Bootstrap. After the course, learners will be able to: ** Explain the mobile-first paradigm and the importance of wireframes in the design phase ** Create sites that behave across a range of platforms ** Utilize existing design frameworks such as Bootstrap This is the fourth course in the Web Design For Everybody specialization. A basic understanding of HTML and CSS is expected when you enroll in this class. Additional courses focus on adding interactivity with the JavaScript Programming Language and completing a capstone project.

From the lesson

Week Four: Experiment!

This week is dedicated to solving those little issues that pop up when you move from theory to practice. We look at more advanced framework options and also hear from people who are using the techniques covered in this course.

Responsive Images9:31

Bootstrap Tables8:44

Code With Me: Advanced Navigation5:48

What Are Templates?6:43

Optional Interview: M W7:38

Optional Interview: H W6:41

Optional: Interview with H N9:06

Bootstrap 43:36

Meet the Instructors

Colleen van Lent, Ph.D.
Lecturer
School of Information
Charles Severance
Associate Professor
School of Information

Hi, everybody.

Let's talk about Bootstrap 4.

In this class I've been talking about Bootstrap 3.

Those are the materials I covered in the slides, and

that's where the classes came from.

But now that Bootstrap 4 is available does it matter?

How will it affect you?

Well, just so you know,

when Bootstrap 3 came out it completely killed Bootstrap 2.0.

There were way too many incompatible changes.

So if you wrote your site using Bootstrap 2, and you tried to convert or

add Bootstrap 3 elements to it It just didn't work it died.

Luckily for

us with Bootstrap 4 they worked much harder to make the two compatible.

So what kind of changes are going on?

To be honest I can be completely sure because they are still in beta.

They're still developing it, but

I can tell you that Boot strap 4 will be faster.

They've switched from a kind of language called Less to one called Sass

that's just going to be faster creating the things that you need.

They're going to include a new grid tier, so we had our extra small, small,

medium, and large.

There's going to be something in addition, so it won't kill the other ones.

There are going to be new customization options.

If you remember when you downloaded Bootstrap 3 there

were all these options that you could add for things that you wanted to change.

You can expect even more in Bootstrap 4.

One other thing I just wanted to mention because I know that we've talked about it

a little bit is that it's starting to use more fluid elements or fluid measurements.

So it can use rem and em units where before it didn't use them.

And hopefully if you've been paying attention through this whole class.

If you get involved in a conversation you can nod and say, yeah, rem,

em, good stuff, and actually kind of know what you're talking about.

And that always feels good when you're hanging out with techie people.

So if you're interested in learning more about Bootstrap 4 you

can download the new code at this URL.

v4-alpha.getbootstrap.com.

Whenever they're referring to software in alpha version

that means it hasn't been completely tested yet.

So it's safe for you to download, but there's probably going to be bugs.

The other thing you can do is you can kind of follow the blog

as they talk about the different things they're adding or deleting from bootstrap.

What is it mean to you though?

You spent this time.

You're familiar with Bootstrap 3, and that's actually still great.

We wanted to learn on something that was tested and

we knew things were going to work out.

And that is still where most of the templates are.

If you go to download a free template it will be built in Bootstrap 3.

And so it's really nice to be familiar with those things you see in real life.

If you're considering jumping into Bootstrap 4 I

think this is a great idea if you really want to be a serious developer.

It always helps to be on that cutting edge in web development and

really anything techie.

So I hope what I helped you understand was that learning bootstrap 3,

really useful and you're going to be able to use it for long time.

Bootstrap 4 can only make things better, so

if it's something you're interested in, go ahead.

I myself am excited to see where it goes.

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