Welcome to the Bootstrap Portfolio Project! For this project, you'll be creating a personal web page to show off your work. We will test your HTML knowledge and then it will be up to you to use CSS to style your own page and make it unique.
You’ll build a personal web page using Bootstrap, which should look similar to this one:
- HTML
- Bootstrap
We'll start you off with a few CSS styles that you can build on that should help get things started.
You will further your Bootstrap skills, feel more comfortable writing Bootstrap code in a real-world scenario, and have the option of using this project as your real portfolio page.
Check out this link to see a working version of this project. Feel free to customize your project even further by adding more custom CSS styles to it once you've completed the steps.
Open this project’s directory in a text editor to complete this project. A text editor like Atom or Sublime Text will do the job. You will make changes to the src/index.html
file to satisfy the requirements.
Complete the following tasks to finish this project.
At the top of our page, we'll want to create a navbar
. Here is a sample navbar to help you get set up. Also feel free to check out Twitter Bootstrap's documentation on navbars. MENU
Change the contents of the <a>
tag that has the navbar-brand
CSS class to include your name instead of "Brand". MENU
Change the contents of the <a>
tags that are within the <li>
menu elements. One tag should read "Home", and the other "About". MENU
Let's place a Bootstrap Carousel under our navbar. Here is a sample carousel to help you get set up. You can always learn more about Bootstrap's Carousel in their official documentation. MENU
Change the three <h1>
and <p>
tags that are found under each .item
element within our carousel to include three tag-lines. You can either use similar content that was already available in the page (under "Who I am", "What I do", etc) or come up with original content for yourself. MENU
Let's display some elements side-by-side using the Grid System. To do so, under our carousel, let's create three nested <div>
tags. One should have the marketing
CSS class, the next should have the container
CSS class, and the third should have the row
CSS class. MENU
Inside of .row
, add three div
elements with the col-md-4
CSS class. Each of these elements should have a: - span
tag with the glyphicon
class, plus another class indicating which icon you'd like to use (ie. "glyphicon-music", or "glyphicon-camera", etc). - h2
tag with a skill in it (ie. "HTML & CSS", or "JavaScript", or "Design", etc). - p
tag describing why you enjoy using each skill (ie. "I enjoy making the web come to life with Angular", etc). MENU
Under .marketing
, let's create a footer
element. Our footer needs to have a div
inside it with the container
CSS class. You'll see the footer stick to the bottom of the page, which happens because of some styling code we made available. MENU
Inside our footer container, let's create two elements: an h3
tag with a title inviting your visitors to get in touch with you, and a p
tag describing how your visitors can get in touch. MENU
Let's remove the .header
, .tagline
, .skills
and .contact
elements as the same information should all be part of the carousel, marketing and footer elements now.
Now that you’re done, we highly encourage you to open the src/main.css
file and customize things as much as you’d like!
You should also make your completed project available online so you can share your progress with others! One way of doing this is by using GitHub Pages.
To deploy your /src
directory to GitHub Pages, be sure to commit all of your changes and make a new branch called gh-pages
. Once you are checked into the gh-pages
branch, run the following command:
git subtree push --prefix src origin gh-pages
This will push the src
folder up to GitHub on the gh-pages
branch. After that, you should be able to open up http://username.github.io/BootstrapPortfolioProject
, where username
is your GitHub username.