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Bootstrap an Existing website

Postby shamzblueworld » 21 Sep 2016, 02:56

Hi guys, what is the best method for moving your existing PHP website into bootstrap? Is it a good approach? Can this be done easily? What are your thoughts?
I want to do this to make the site responsive plus more elegant.
What are my other best options?
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Re: Bootstrap an Existing website

Postby Sam » 22 Sep 2016, 02:56

At the moment I'm experimenting with CSS Flexbox and Media queries to create responsive pages. Flexbox really simplifies responsiveness by resizing and wrapping elements. Once you get over the learning curve (I'm not fully there) it's amazing and much simpler than what was done previously. This may be an option for you.

Here's an example of what I did:

Demonstrating Media queries (mainly):
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Demonstrating the Flexbox Wrap property (note I had to zoom out to show the wrap effect.... if I were to improve this, I might allow for a "read more" javascript or something).
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I did consider learning bootstrap but have been learning HTML/ CSS/ JS/ PHP because I need my charity project (not the one above) to be unique.

Best tutorial video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqOEoUR5RHg (I watched the HTML/CSS/JS/PHP ones above and added to that knowledge. Derek Banas is fantastic).
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Re: Bootstrap an Existing website

Postby oldbuddy » 23 Sep 2016, 06:36

I have done this with my own simple websites and did not find it overly complicated to use Notepad++ on a free template to change the content to fit my needs. Look at http://www.prowebdesign.ro/simple-responsive-template/
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