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CSS Framework Alternatives

Explore Five Lightweight Alternatives to Bootstrap and Foundation with Project Examples

Apress
  • First book on the market to cover Skeleton, Miligram, UI Kit, Material Design Lite, and Susy

  • Demonstrates each framework through an easy-to-follow practical project

  • Written by experienced authors used to distilling concepts to be easily followed by readers

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Choosing Lightweight Frameworks for Intuitive Web Design

    • Aravind Shenoy, Anirudh Prabhu
    Pages 1-14
  3. Building a Landing Page with Skeleton

    • Aravind Shenoy, Anirudh Prabhu
    Pages 15-40
  4. Building a Product Page with Milligram

    • Aravind Shenoy, Anirudh Prabhu
    Pages 41-68
  5. Introducing UIkit

    • Aravind Shenoy, Anirudh Prabhu
    Pages 69-106
  6. Material Design Lite Explained

    • Aravind Shenoy, Anirudh Prabhu
    Pages 107-151
  7. Susy Explained

    • Aravind Shenoy, Anirudh Prabhu
    Pages 153-167
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 169-171

About this book

Learn how to use lightweight CSS framework alternatives to build intuitive websites. This book presents five project examples that use Skeleton, Miligram, UI Kit, Material Design Lite and Susy. 



This no-nonsense introduction will help you understand the concept of designing interactive websites using these frameworks with ease. Each framework is demonstrated through a practical project in an easy-to-understand manner. 


Web design is streamlined nowadays thanks to CSS frameworks and, although Bootstrap and Foundation rule the roost with web design, you don't need an exhaustive framework like these for smaller websites.You'll get a glimpse into additional front-end frameworks which basically are pre-prepared packages containing structure of files and folders of HTML and CSS documents (some with JavaScript functions) that help designers and developers build interactive and immersive websites. 


What You'll Learn

  • Delve deeper into the world of CSS designs 
  • Create interactive and immersive webpages with UI Kit, Material Design Life, and Susy
  • Build a landing webpage with Skeleton  
  • Design a product page for a Secure VPN product with Milligram 

Who This Book Is For

Readers who are familiar with basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and experienced web designers who aren’t familiar with frameworks other than Bootstrap or Foundation.


Authors and Affiliations

  • C-wing, 809/810, Mahavir Trinkets, Behind Huma Adlabs C-wing, 809/810, Mumbai, India

    Aravind Shenoy

  • A-403, Govardhan Nagar, Mumbai, India

    Anirudh Prabhu

About the authors

A Senior Technical writer by profession, Aravind Shenoy's core interests are Technical Writing, Content Writing, Content Development, Web Design, and Business Analysis. He was born and raised in Mumbai and resides there. A music buff - he loves listening to Rock n' Roll & Rap. Oasis, R.E.M, The Doors, Dire Straits, Coldplay, Jimi Hendrix, U2, Guns n’ Roses and Michael Jackson rule his playlists. An engineering graduate from the Manipal Institute of Technology and an author of several books, he is a keen learner and always believes that there is always a steep learning curve as Life is all about learning. In summary, as he quips “The most important thing is to be happy - it’s all that matters. After all, we are here for a good time, not a long time".

Anirudh Prabhu is a UI Developer with more than 7 years of experience. He specializes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Sass, LESS, Twitter Bootstrap. He has been involved in building training materiala for HTML, CSS and jQuery for twenty19 which is portal for providing training for freshers / interns, and has authored “Introducing Materialize,” "Introducing SEO,” and “Beginning CSS Preprocessors” for Apress. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: CSS Framework Alternatives

  • Book Subtitle: Explore Five Lightweight Alternatives to Bootstrap and Foundation with Project Examples

  • Authors: Aravind Shenoy, Anirudh Prabhu

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3399-3

  • Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA

  • eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Professional and Applied Computing (R0), Apress Access Books

  • Copyright Information: Aravind Shenoy and Anirudh Prabhu 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-3398-6Published: 11 March 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-3399-3Published: 10 March 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 171

  • Number of Illustrations: 74 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Web Development

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 19.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 24.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

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