Author: Christopher Gimmer

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13 Bootstrap UI Kits That Will Improve Your Workflow

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If you are just starting to learn Bootstrap, we have created a series of tutorials called 14 Days of Bootstrap 4 that can help you with your development.

If you’re not using a UI kit for your web designs and themes, it may be time to consider it.

Put simply, UI kits can save you time and money while drastically improving the look and feel of your design. Not only will you be able to differentiate yourself from the default Bootstrap styling, you can change the overall styling of your theme much more efficiently.

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Top 20 Google Web Fonts and How to Use Them

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As a web designer, you’re probably well aware of the importance of typeface. With the growing amount of businesses engaging in content marketing, font selection is becoming all the more crucial.

There’s nothing worse than coming across a website with awesome content and horrible typeface. One of your main goals as a designer is ensuring a positive experience for the end-user.

After the release of Google Web Fonts, it’s become a lot easier to incorporate beautiful typography into your websites. The only difficulty is sorting through the 600+ styles that are offered.

For this reason, we’ve put together our top 20 Google web fonts that are sure to bring out the best of your design. (more…)

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Bootstrap Tutorial – Font Awesome & Social Icons (Video)

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If you want to see more examples and a complete tutorial, you can check out our new article about Bootstrap 4 Typography.

 

In this installment of our Bootstrap tutorial, we show you how to install Font Awesome and add social icons to your website’s footer.

Font Awesome gives you scalable vector icons that can instantly be customized — size, color, drop shadow, and anything that can be done with the power of CSS. The font was designed from scratch to be fully compatible with Bootstrap 3.0.0. (more…)

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Top 5 Reasons to use Bootstrap

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If you are just starting to learn Bootstrap, we have created a series of tutorials called 14 Days of Bootstrap 4 that can help you.

 

Are you a web designer or developer who’s new to Bootstrap and front-end frameworks? Are you wondering what all the hype is about? Allow us to shed some light.

Over the last few years, Bootstrap has become an increasingly popular front-end development framework. More and more developers and designers continue to get on board. Evidently, there’s a reason for that.

The Bootstrap framework is feature rich and offers several benefits to those using it. We go over these benefits in the top 5 reasons to use Bootstrap. (more…)

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