Embarking on any web project from a clean slate is a lot of work. Setting up typography, base styles, perhaps a grid system of some kind, media queries.. The alternative; building yourself some kind of front-end framework to start from each time, can be a serious undertaking and involves a lot of maintenance. Happily, open source frameworks such as Zurb's Foundation will do all the heavy lifting for you!
During this session, Matt Pilott will take you through the fundamentals of Foundation; the responsive grid, typography, JavaScript plugins, UI elements, all the way to working with Sass and Rails.
Posts in this series
Foundation for Beginners: Getting Started
Foundation for Beginners: The Grid System
Foundation for Beginners: Navigation
Foundation for Beginners: The Top Bar
How to Customize the Foundation 4 Top Bar
Foundation for Beginners: Buttons and Dropdowns
Foundation for Beginners: Custom Forms and Switches
Foundation for Beginners: Progress, Alerts, Tooltips and the Elusive Mega Drop
Foundation for Beginners: Joyride, Interchange, Tables and Panels
Foundation for Beginners: Sticky Navigation, Flexible Video and Zepto
Setting up Foundation With Sass and Compass
Foundation’s Sassy Styles Explained