Free Bootstrap Wedding Cake Theme

Wedding Cake is a quality Bootstrap theme, comprised of multiple pages. It is ideal for a bakery, cake shop, or any other type of even website. The theme contains vivid colors and images, plus visible call-to-action elements.

Features:
- Multiple contextual pages
- Social icons
- Image gallery
- Google map
- Contact form
- Carousel

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Free Bootstrap My Restaurant Theme

My Restaurant is a high quality Bootstrap theme, ideal for a restaurant, hotel or bar websites. It is a single-page template, consisting of several sections, standard for the industry, visible call-to-actions and fancy widgets.

Features:
- Smooth scrolling
- Animated filtering
- Shield UI's Calendar widget
- Shield UI's QR Code widget
- Carousel

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Reasons to Choose Bootstrap

Bootstrap is currently one of the most widely used front-end frameworks. Although there is a large number of alternativs, such as Foundation, Fbootstrapp, BootMetro and Kickstrapthere are good reasons why Bootstrap has become so popular. This blog lists just some of the reasons why you should at least give it a try.

 

 

Easy to get started

Smooth Learning curve

Detailed documentation

Complete Themes

A wealth of plugins

Layout System

Large Community

 

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Free Bootstrap Widgets

While Bootstrap does solve a lot of complex layout and responsiveness issues, for most of the websites, this is just a part of the work that needs to be done. For most of the tasks, such as Data Visualization, editing, sorting, grouping and filtering one needs to use additional widgets. 

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Free Bootstrap Color Flat Theme

Color Flat Design is a flat-design Bootstram theme, ideal for starter pages and business websites that want to make a memorablee impression.
Features:
– Smooth scrolling
– Animated filtering
– Carousel
– Sharp colors

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Free Bootstrap Roah Single Page Theme

Roah is a multi-purpose single-page Bootstram theme, ideal for starter pages and business websites.
Features:
– Smooth scrolling
– Image gallery
– Animated filtering
– Carousel
– Stunning colors

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Using Shield UI Lite with Bower

Bower is a package manager for the web. It is a handy command line utility for managing external component dependencies containing HTML, JavaScript, CSS, font, image and other types of files. When used in a project, Bower takes care of fetching and installing the required packages, along with their dependencies, behind the scenes, which makes it ideal for front-end projects.

In this article we describe how you can use Bower to install the Shield UI Lite library, an open-sourced lightweight version of the Shield UI for JavaScript framework.

In order to use Bower, it must be installed on your computer. As mentioned in the instructions, NodeJS, NPM and Git should also be installed as they are required.

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Perl Catalyst Integration

The Catalyst MVC framework is a great tool to use for implementing small and big web projects using the Perl programming language. It provides a lot of useful functionality like session handling, authorization and request chaining, out of the box.

This tutorial will show you how to create a Catalyst project for managing a list of books stored in a database. You will learn how to add a database to your application, create a RESTful controller that implements CRUD operations on the Book resource and adding a template for rendering an index page containing a Shield UI JavaScript Grid component configured to work with your REST controller.

Prerequisites
It is required that you have experience writing web applications with Perl and understanding of the MVC architectural pattern.
The first step is to install Perl and Catalyst on your PC. More information can be found on the Catalyst wiki.

Conclusion
This tutorial described how to create a Catalyst project from scratch, add a database to it and implement a CRUD RESTful controller for manipulating that database. It also included a powerful Grid component from the Shield UI for JavaScript and HTML5 library that was used for rendering the user interface that calls the server-side controller code. By embedding powerful user interface widgets like the ones included in the Shield UI suite, developers save time, cost and concerns about client-side peculiarities like responsiveness, cross-browser support and unified product vision.

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Django Integration

The Django REST Framework is a powerfull tool for building RESTful APIs based on the popular Django web framework. This post will demonstrate how easy it is to setup a new application using the Django framework and integrate the Shield UI JavaScript Grid component in it. The sample application will expose an API for managing a list of books and will use a local SQLite database server for persisting data. The application code is available in GitHub and can be used as a reference. 

Conclusion
The tutorial described how to create a simple Django project from scratch, setup its database and implement the Django REST Framework to expose a RESTful resource for manipulating that database. The user interface in the sample project includes the powerful Grid component from the Shield UI for JavaScript and HTML5 library that was used for rendering the data and managing the database records using the powerful server-side Django backend. By embedding powerful user interface widgets like the ones included in the Shield UI suite, developers save time, cost and concerns about client-side peculiarities like responsiveness, cross-browser support and unified product vision.

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Using 6 Basic Charts to Create Effective Reports

Numerical data is the prevalent output of every study, be it sociology or quantum mechanics. It is also used in every sphere of science and technology. Cognitive studies carried out within the aerospace industry show that numerical data is understood faster when shown in a visual way. Moreover, charts represent trend and illustrate ratio.

Using the right type of chart to represent numerical data is as critical as the process of acquiring the data itself. It may often mean nothing to its user if illustrated in an improper way and even lead him to bad interpretations and be counterproductive. At the same time, one has to be careful not to overuse charts and graphs, because that can impair the users’ attention. In this article we will discuss the six most common types of charts and their appropriate usage scenarios. The Shield UI charting component offers good looks, versatility and flexibility when it comes to charts.

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Designing Informational Dashboards

 Data-driven applications are crucial for delivering important business insights, which are now part of any online enterprise. Customers tend to utilize single interactive and intuitive user interfaces to visualize their data. Moreover, the informational dashboards are increasingly being used in tracking everyday activities such as summary of current usage, cost and balance of an online account, daily test reports or fitness exercise statistics.

As the use of data visualization is rapidly increasing for both simple and complex analytics, online businesses are looking for tools that can power their applications with rich visualization capabilities. Below are some guidelines and best practices for building informational dashboards for great user experience.

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10 Best Practices for Responsive Design

Responsive design has become the most preferred method for creating websites, because it provides optimal visualization that is suitable for different devices (mobile phones, tablets, desktops, etc.) and screen resolutions. The purpose of this adaptive page adjustment is to minimize the need for resizing and scrolling.

A responsive website adapts its content to the environment in which it is visualized, through the use of flexible grids that are based on proportions (based grids), and flexible images.
Responsive web design is being increasingly used and is becoming more important as the amount of mobile traffic accounts for more than half of all Internet traffic. This trend is so widespread that Google began raising ratings of sites that have responsive design.
In this article, we will discuss the 10 rules of best practice for responsive design.

1. Consider context
The fit-to-size process may make sense in terms of scalability, but it ignores the actual content that is presented in this layout (content must be considered).
Think of a website for a restaurant. You would certainly want the site to look good on mobile screens. There is, however, a lot of context and variables - you need to consider what is most important to different visitors who use this device.
You may at first think that because they are on a mobile device, these customers are looking for opinions or directions to the restaurant, but what if they are already in it? In this case, even though they are on a mobile device, they obviously don’t need guidance. Instead, they may be looking for something like nutritional information for the restaurant’s menu.

2. Practice thoughtful reduction
There’s a so called "mobile first” approach, in which the designer needs to focus only on content, to show what’s most important for consumers and to remove anything that is superfluous.
When going through this process, some functions for larger screens need to be removed for mobile devices. Deleting items from the page requires a bit of aggressive approach, but a successful designer must learn how to be ruthless in this regard. Retain only what's important!

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