Monday, February 11, 2013

Twitter Bootstrap

The last few days I have been working with Twitter Bootstrap and creating a site on my local machine that can be found on my GitHub account.  This project was to serve a couple of purposes, get familiar with Twitter Bootstrap, Git, GitHub and start working toward updating the hideous home page at ronaldsnyder.net.

I have had a bit of a learning curve with Git but not unexpected learning something new.  I am only committing things right now and haven't had to do any pulls or branching.  One tip I will relay is that if you are using a graphical text editor in Linux that you should put *~ in your gitignore file.  I was having a hard time with getting two files for each page I edited, one with a tilde at the end.  I believe this is because it is the backup version used by the text editor.  Adding the *~ fixed that problem.  I am still a bit clumsy with Git but it is getting easier day by day.

The next step in this project is going to be installing a Django site on my local machine and using the framework to create an app using the Twitter Bootstrap.  I have no idea how to do this or what Django is capable of helping.  This should be a great opportunity to get some more comfort with both Bootstrap and Django.

I will be documenting this process and posting about it here.

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