Foundation 5 for Beginners

Learn to build a simple responsive website using Zurb's Foundation 5 framework. Perfect for beginners and those familiar with HTML and CSS.

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Brief Summary

In this course, you'll create a simple four-page website using Foundation 5, an awesome web framework that helps you build beautiful, responsive sites without a ton of effort. Don’t worry if you’re not a coding pro; basics are all you need!

Key Points

  • Learn to build a simple four-page website using Foundation 5
  • Foundation 5 is a free, open-source web framework
  • Course focuses on making websites beautiful with minimal effort
  • Includes CSS styling and jQuery tools for customization
  • Responsive design principles for mobile compatibility

Learning Outcomes

  • Understand the core features of Foundation 5
  • Be able to create responsive designs with ease
  • Utilize the built-in image slider effectively
  • Build a basic website from scratch
  • Feel more confident in using web frameworks

About This Course

We apply the Zurb's Foundation 5 web framework to build a simple Responsive website.

In this course, we will live code a simple four-page website built using the web framework, Foundation.

Foundation 5 is an open-source framework created by ZURB, a design agency in California. They released the 5.0 version of the product in late 2013 and this course is based on the latest version.

It is one of the more popular frameworks available on the Web today and is absolutely free.

The purpose: Make websites beautiful without a lot of work. This course walks you through some of Foundation's core features that produce beautiful websites with a little effort.

It contains almost all of the CSS styling you will need for a website and a lot of cool jQuery tools to extend your website. It also allows you to make your website responsive so it can be viewed on mobile designs.

This course will walk you through creating a website from scratch using the framework. You do not need to be an expert in HTML or CSS. But if you know the basics, it will take you a long way.

If you do not know the basics, we will create the elements of the website and will answer any questions you have.

  • By the end of this course, you will know the basic features of Foundation

  • You will know how Foundation builds in Responsive Design

  • You will know how to use the built-in Foundation image slider

Instructor

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Drew Butler

Drew was a university instructor and served as a course desginer for online courses for two semesters. I was also on the instructional team for Front-End Development at the Nashville Software School. Today, I am a Web Developer based in Nashville, TN that works with Ruby and Ruby on Rails.

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4.9 course rating
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ui-avatar of Fazilat Fazilat
Fazilat F.
5.0
1 year ago

Great platform for learning

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ui-avatar of Riyan Mehmood
Riyan M.
5.0
3 years ago

Excellent

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Daniel R.
4.5
3 years ago

Excellent course, it was a bit short, very easy to understand and it helped me to go to the next level by using frameworks.

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ui-avatar of Stefano Villa
Stefano V.
5.0
5 years ago

A beginners cours that gives you a good idea of what is Foundation and how to use it.

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Andrew S.
2.0
5 years ago

Sound is bad

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ui-avatar of AMBIKA SATISH
Ambika S.
4.5
5 years ago

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ui-avatar of Leobardo Aviles
Leobardo A.
4.5
5 years ago

The course gives you a good beginner project to work on which provides useful insight on the amazing things you can create with Foundation. It helps that Drew dives into referencing the documentation as that can be a bit overwhelming for a beginner. Thank you for the information!

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Tobias G.
1.5
5 years ago

audio levels not consistent, outdated material, more than basic content

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Vaishnavi P.
5.0
6 years ago

it was good

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ui-avatar of Sivakami
Sivakami
4.5
6 years ago

Enjoy :)

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