Tuesday, October 27, 2015

[ Tutorial ] Material Design Lite: Navigation, Grid and Footer

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Good news for every web designer out there. Google has cooked up a new package that spruces up your web pages. Earlier this year, Material Design has been introduced to the public. Heading on for an all encompassing solution, the company eventually launched Material Design Lite (MDL) a few months ago. Download the Material Design Lite Kit online at www.getmdl.io



Material Design Lite (MDL) layout component is a comprehensive approach to page layout that uses MDL development tenets, allows for efficient uses of MDL components, and automatically adapts to different browsers, screen sizes, and devices.
Essentially, MDL lets you add a Material Design look and feel to your static content websites. It doesn’t rely on any JavaScript frameworks or libraries. Optimized for cross-devices uses, gracefully degrades in older browsers, and offers an experience that is accessible from the get-go. 


Material Design Lite and Material Design for Bootstrap

Material Design for Bootstrap is a theme for Bootstrap 3 which lets you use the new Google Material Design in your favorite front-end framework.

source: http://fezvrasta.github.io/bootstrap-material-design/#about





Let us take a look at this.
Source: http://everythingme.github.io/openspace/





















Bootstrap and Material Design for Bootstrap were used for layout, elements, icons and colors in the above website photo. You can check out the site to observe some difference.

Material Design Lite: Let's do this

Now that you are able to look into the difference between Material Design Lite and Material Design for Bootstrap, you are now ready to dig deeper into Material Design Lite by doing this session I have prepared for you.

Let us get started. 

1.  Download the Material Design Lite Kit at www.getmdl.io
Unpack the downloaded copy and notice that the mdl package contains the following.



















2. In Notepad++, prepare a file with the following content




    









3. In the website, click 'Getting Started' button.



















4. Scroll down and paste the code



5. Paste it in your working file just like below.




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