Making HTML Sites with Bootstrap Starter Kit
ProfHacker 2017-10-31
More and more, individuals are turning away from large database-based websites for a number of reasons: ease of use, size, and archivability. But, if you’re not using a CMS like WordPress or Drupal, what are you going to use instead?
My colleague Kris Shaffer has been working on this question. First up was Peasy (which I wrote about for ProfHacker) and we’ve also been playing around with Ghost (which my site now uses). But, maybe you want to build your site the old-fashioned way, with HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
As Kris put in his blogpost:
Bootstrap helps you make hand-coded websites, without them looking hand-coded.
The problem is that many of the themes don’t come with everything you need! For a seasoned designer/developer, that’s not a problem. But for students like mine, it can be a big problem. So I built something to try and help.
Kris has created a starter package that includes everything you would need to get started using Bootstrap in a web development capacity. You can download the file, upload it to your server, and get started editing!
What is your favorite way to create a simple flat HTML website?