
Explore foundation, a free web framework by Zurb, to build a simple four-page site. This beginner-focused course demonstrates live coding of features like tables, buttons, contact forms, and a slider.
Discover how web design frameworks standardize file structures, speed development, and guide you to install Foundation or Bootstrap, avoiding reinventing the wheel.
Download foundation from the site and use the default CSS option for a simple four-column layout with default fonts, or customize by excluding elements and colors, including an SAS option.
Explore the Foundation grid system, featuring a 12-column layout with small and large grid modes that adapt to devices, guiding placement of text and images to improve usability and readability.
Set up a blank page, move course assets into the surf shop project, and add the logo inside a 12-column grid using a large-6 column, then preview.
Add a navigation menu beside the logo using Foundation 5. Implement the nav with an ordered list, a button group class, and rounded buttons to create a horizontal menu.
fix the logo and nav alignment by resizing the grid, setting the logo to five columns and the nav to seven, or apply foundation's even class and create a stylesheet.
Create and link a new style sheet, override the foundation colors to green for the buttons, and push the menu down with a 30-pixel top margin.
Add a hero image by placing an image tag in a 12-column row, linking to surf shop images folder asset and adding a horizontal rule under it, with responsive behavior.
Finish the home page by setting a 12-column grid with a four-column image beside an eight-column text block, nesting another 12-column grid to create two rows, finishing the footer.
Implement a responsive Foundation 5 footer using a 12-column grid with a left copyright area and a right-aligned navigation list, showcasing class right and class left utilities and responsive stacking.
Create the lessons page by duplicating the index, keep the logo, nav, and footer, replace content with a picture and text beside it, and hard-code links for testing.
Learn to add a photo beside text with a two-column layout in Foundation, using a 7-column image and a 5-column text, and apply top-section padding with CSS.
Learn to create a two-column lessons table with beginner and experienced headers using Foundation styling, zebra striping, and a center class, then preview and expand as data grows.
Create and style a two-class lesson table in html, including rows for first time surfers and experienced class, add a pricing table with buy now buttons to enable online registration.
Add a pricing table to the page by copying foundation documentation. Configure beginner and advanced classes with price and a buy now button, and adjust the layout and footer.
Add three pricing tables on the rentals page, each with a title, description, price, and a reserve button, arranged in a responsive four-column grid.
Learn to integrate the Foundation orbit slider by loading jQuery and Foundation scripts in the footer, enabling the image carousel, captions, and basic configuration.
Add a six-column slider to the Reynolds page using an ordered list with a data-orbit attribute, load three images with captions, and enable auto-play with an overlay caption.
Create a contact page using Foundation's panel call-out in a two-column layout, with a simple name input form and a button outside the panel, plus header and image credit.
Explore foundation 5 to build a responsive, 5 6 3 compliant website with a built-in slider and styling, prioritizing user experience and clear messaging.
In this course, we will live code a simple four-page website built using the web framework, Foundation.
Foundation 5 is an open-source framework created by ZURB, a design agency in California. They released the 5.0 version of the product in late 2013 and this course is based on the latest version.
It is one of the more popular frameworks available on the Web today and is absolutely free.
The purpose: Make websites beautiful without a lot of work. This course walks you through some of Foundation's core features that produce beautiful websites with a little effort.
It contains almost all of the CSS styling you will need for a website and a lot of cool jQuery tools to extend your website. It also allows you to make your website responsive so it can be viewed on mobile designs.
This course will walk you through creating a website from scratch using the framework. You do not need to be an expert in HTML or CSS. But if you know the basics, it will take you a long way.
If you do not know the basics, we will create the elements of the website and will answer any questions you have.