How to customize bootstrap

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53 lessons / 5 hours

Overview

NOTE: this course uses Bootstrap 3. Dreamweaver has recently updated to Bootstrap version 4. You can change it back to 3 using the ‘New Document > Bootstrap > Preferences'. Please do this before starting the course.

Some versions of Dreamweaver will require you to download the specific Bootstrap version you want to use and link it within the site. You can download Bootstrap 3 here: http://getbootstrap.com/docs/3.3/

Hi - my name is Dan and I’ll be leading you through this course on how to Make money building mobile friendly websites using Dreamweaver.

I built this course for the visual person, the right brained person. We won't hide from code but we'll use all the visual tools that makes Dreamweaver so amazing.

These are the skills you’ll need to become a professional web designer. You’ll learn how to make responsive websites in Dreamweaver as well as learning what to charge and how to manage a website project.

We cover everything you need to build your first website. From creating your first page through to uploading your website to the internet. During the course we’ll create a website for a mock creative agency - creating mobile and desktop versions. See our example here:

I’m a Dreamweaver Certified Instructor and an Adobe Certified Web Specialist.

With exercise files you can download and work along with me. At the end of each video I have a downloadable version of where we are in the process so you can compare your project with mine making it easy to see where you might have a problem.

I’ll be showing you how to work with Dreamweaver to easily create HTML & CSS websites. How to create mobile and tablet versions of your design and how to test your website on your phone.

I’ll be teaching you how to create navigation bars, how to work with responsive images and favicons.

We’ll work with Dreamweaver’s new Bootstrap integration to easily add carousels, tabbed menu’s and accordions. Even easier you’ll learn to impress clients by embedding videos, calendars, maps, event ticketing & social sharing options. 
 
 Know that I’ll be around to help - if you get lost you can message in the forum and together we’ll get you back on track.

Now it’s time to upgrade your skills, get that better job and impress your clients.

What are the requirements?

  • You'll need a copy of Dreamweaver CC 2015 or above. A free 30 day trial can be download from Adobe here.

  • No previous Dreamweaver or web design experience is necessary.

  • If you're not sure if this course is right for you. Email me what you’re trying to do and check if you’re on the right track.

What am I going to get from this course?

  • 60 lectures 3 hours of content!

  • Forum support from me. 

  • All the techniques used by professional website designers.

  • Ways to preview your designs straight to your mobile device.

  • Firm understanding of responsive web design.

  • Professional workflows and shortcuts. 

  • A wealth of other resources and websites to help your new career path.

What is the target audience?

  • YES: This course is for beginners. For people who prefer not to work in code. Aimed at people new to the world of web design. No previous Dreamweaver experience is necessary. People with knowledge of previous versions of Dreamweaver CC 2014 and below will also get great value from this course as the software has changed so much.

  • NO: This course is NOT suited to people experienced in using HTML & CSS. If you prefer to work in code only then this course isn’t right for you.

Course duration 5.5 hours + your own study.

Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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Okay, to go and override a BootStrap style, firstly you need to figure out which one you want to override. So I'm going to insert a button and then figure out the style name. so I'm going to go insert, button, and remember when we looked earlier we found a class called btn-danger and I like it, I want to use it but I want to change the background colour, I don’t want it to be red. So what we are going to do is we are going to use this thing here and I'm going to select it all and copy it and I'm going to go to my BootStrap.css, this big mammoth thing. Somewhere in there is the style that makes btn danger big and red with white text. Now I don’t want to go searching for it manually. Lets go to edit, lets go to find and type it in here, click find next and there it is there. So what I want to do is grab this whole class an d you’ve got to make sure you grab the curly braces. There one in the beginning here and one at the end. And hit copy, so I'm going to go to edit, copy. Then I'm going to jump to my css, my nice clean empty css. And we are going to override it here.

 

So I'm going to paste it in using edit paste and make sure I've got my curly braces, which have come along for the ride. And theres my btn-danger and its got the full stop at the beginning that lets it know it’s a class. And the things that I want to change are pretty much the background colour and maybe the border colour as well. I don’t want to change the colour, you’ll notice the word colour always refers to the text colour, can you see its white? And the background colour refers to obviously the background colour but if you see the word colour by itself it means the font colour. So actually I don’t want to change it at all so theres no point overriding it and saying it’s the exact same colour, it’s the background colour and the border colour I want to change. So I want to change this to another colour so what I can do is if I know the hexadecimal number I could just type it in here. I don’t know a few of them off by heart. Like I know that fff was white and I know that 000 is black but that’s about all that I know off the top of my head so I need to go off and find my colour. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to undo so edit, undo to get back to where it was. And I'm going to make sure that everything is saved, save all. And I'm going to go to my css designer and now I'm going to change it using the css designer.

 

So to do it I'm going to click off into my design view, I'm going to click on my main css. And the good thing about it is there only one class in here. They’re called selectors, that’s the overriding name for things like classes and id's that go in your css but there he is there. You might be, just make sure that you're not stuck in current. Current can geta little bit lost, current is great when you know what you're doing but when you don’t, go to all and it just lists everything here. So can click on this and down the bottom here, I can go and style it. Now there’s a lot to go and style potentially, there he is, that’s the background colour. Now just to tidy things up, watch this, if you go show set, instead of showing you all the things that haven’t been done or potentially could be done, it only shows you all the things that have been done, in this case its only got the border style and the background colour. If I turn it off again, it shows me everything but with it on, it cuts it down to a nice, easy manageable list. So background colour, that’s the border colour, so lets do the background colour. So I'm going to click on this and I'm going to use this hue slider to change the hue. And my new danger colour is going to be magenta, bright pink. Once you pick it, there’s the hue slider, this is how light or dark it potentially is and this is how opaque it is, or how see through it is, so lets click enter. And you’ll notice that my background colour is changed to this magenta colour and what you’ll also notice is the css in BootStrap says be red. But your one, your main dot css overrides it saying the background colour is magenta and that’s what we are going to do a lot of in this class. We will leave the BootStrap.css doing its thing and then we are going to override it with our own customer’s stuff. Okay great, so that was just there for an example so I'm going to go delete the one that says btn-danger and I'm going to delete the button. I'm going to select it and delete it from my document. I'm going to go file, save all. And that is how you customize BootStrap by overriding it using your own css sheet.

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