Twitter Bootstrap Resources

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This does Over the past few months, I have built quite a few sites using Twitter Bootstrap. I think it is an awesome framework for styling websites and abstracts away a lot of the differences in CSS between modern browsers. I say Twitter Bootstrap did for CSS what jquery did for JavaScript. I typically say that if you use both frameworks in the same site, your site will work pretty consistent against all modern browsers. Anyway, the purpose of this post was to list all of the Twitter Bootstrap resources that use or find helpful.

Content Delivery Networks (CDN)

Name Url
Bootstrap CDN https://www.bootstrapcdn.com
Microsoft Ajax CDN https://www.asp.net/ajaxlibrary/cdn.ashx#Bootstrap_Releases_on_the_CDN_14

Resource Guides

Name Url
The Big Bad Ass List of Twitter Bootstrap Resources https://www.bootstraphero.com/the-big-badass-list-of-twitter-bootstrap-resources

Tutorials

Name Url
Bootstrap Tutorial: A Guide for Beginners https://blog.udemy.com/bootstrap-tutorial-a-guide-for-beginners/

Themes

Name Url
Bootswatch https://bootswatch.com/
Themes for Bootstrap https://www.themesforbootstrap.com/
jquery-ui for Bootstrap https://github.com/jquery-ui-bootstrap/jquery-ui-bootstrap/
Style Bootstrap https://stylebootstrap.info/
PaintStrap https://paintstrap.com/

Layout Helpers

Name Url
Bootply https://www.bootply.com
BootUI https://www.bootui.com/
Layoutit https://www.layoutit.com/build

Visual Studio NuGet Packages

As of ASP.NET MVC 5, the File | New templates are already wired for Twitter Bootstrap, just in case, here are a few packages to get you started.

Name Url
Bootstrap https://www.nuget.org/packages/bootstrap/
AngularJS UI Bootstrap https://www.nuget.org/packages/Angular.UI.Bootstrap/
Bootstrap for MVC 5 https://www.nuget.org/packages/Twitter.Bootstrap.MVC/
Paged List for ASP.NET (Bootstrap) https://www.nuget.org/packages/PagedListExt/
Font Awesome https://www.nuget.org/packages/FontAwesome/

UI Widgets

General Libraries

Name Url
Bootstrap Components (for ASP.NET MVC) https://bootstrapcomponents.apphb.com/
Fuel UX https://exacttarget.github.io/fuelux/#

Buttons

Name Url
Button Builder https://bootsnipp.com/buttons

Fonts

Name Url
Font Awesome https://fontawesome.io/
Font Custom https://fontcustom.com/

Input Widgets

Name Url
Bootstrap Form Helpers https://bootstrapformhelpers.com/
Bootstrap Acknowledge Inputs https://averagemarcus.github.com/Bootstrap-AcknowledgeInputs/
Bootstrap Wysiwyg Editor https://mindmup.github.io/bootstrap-wysiwyg/
Bootstrap Validation Helpers https://reactiveraven.github.io/jqBootstrapValidation/
Date Picker https://www.eyecon.ro/bootstrap-datepicker/
Time Picker https://github.com/jdewit/bootstrap-timepicker