Building Data-Driven Web Apps with Pyramid and SQLAlchemy Transcripts
Chapter: Bootstrap and frontend CSS frameworks
Lecture: What we'll cover
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So far we've kind of ignored design for the most part and we're not going to go deeply into design in this course.
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It's not a course about CSS and HTML and web design but we should cover enough that you understand the design tools that are in place as well
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as be able to bring in extra things, like themes and stuff that are really easy wins for making your site look better in a hurry.
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So let's briefly talk about what we'll learn in this chapter. We're going to do a quick survey of what are called
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front-end frameworks, or front-end CSS frameworks. These include things like Bootstrap and Foundation but there's actually many of them.
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Even though the template you start with comes with Bootstrap in Pyramid you don't have to stick with Pyramid.
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We will for this course, but you don't have to. And so you will have a nice sense of what's out there and what the trade-offs are
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because we're going to use Bootstrap. It really is the most popular one and it's what the templates come with. We'll go ahead and use that.
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So we'll do a quick introduction to what Bootstrap is. A few of the features are super-important to know
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and really helpful, so we'll talk about grid layout and a few of the controls like buttons and widgets. And then we're going to bring it all together.
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Remember right now, it's just that red starter Pyramid project look and it's fine for a single page that you just want to show off like a picture
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but it's not really a proper web design. So we're going to see how to use things like layout macro pages and so on to bring it all together.