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February 23, 2021
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Surprise Bootstrap?

  • February 23, 2021
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Let me start by saying that I am attempting to learn Bootstrap, and am still not sure exactly what I am doing. So please try to be understanding if you want to help.

I've made some now-outdated html websites in the past, and have a little understanding of what Bootstrap is. So I've been messing around with the templates, and also trying to learn how to convert an html site to Bootstrap. Anyway, without doing anything (as far as I know)  to my old portfolio website, the top navigation on ONE of my eleven pages mysteriously is more viewable on my phone, as if something changed to make it more Bootstrappy.  I thought there was a lot more involved with updating the html, and other code, and for this to happen without me doing anything is confusing.

Would an expert be able to look at code on these two pages, and tell my why the navigation on misc.html views better on a mobile device than advertising.html?

This one looks readable on my phone:
http://www.christinespidell.com/portfolio/misc.html

This one (plus all of the other pages) looks smaller, and like regular html.
http://www.christinespidell.com/portfolio/advertising.html

I can't find any differences in the actual code, so it's really hard to figure out what changed in the misc.html code.

If it seems like I'm in way over my head, I am. I just want to figure out why one page changed on its own. Then I'll dive into Bootstrap tutorials. Is anyone willing to look at the code on these two pages to see anything obviously different?

Thank you!

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Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 23, 2021

Hi @christine112717859378,

Forgive me for asking a stupid question. Why don't you use Adobe Portfolio for this?   It's free with your paid Creative Cloud Plan and costs nothing to host on Adobe's servers. 

 

Portfolio is mobile-friendly, simple to use and no coding skills required. Just pick a Theme, create new pages, upload images, add some text and hit Publish.  Repeat for other pages.

https://portfolio.adobe.com/

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
Participating Frequently
February 23, 2021

Nancy, I thought about that and will definitely look at it again. One reason I have been working in Dreamweaver is to hopefully learn some new skills. 😄 Thanks so much!

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 23, 2021

You can do that, too 🙂  I don't use Portfolio as my main website.  It's a companion to my main site, blog, social media, etc...  Portfolio can be up & running in 30 minutes or less.

 

Learning everything necessary to build responsive sites in Dreamweaver with Bootstrap or not could take weeks or months. 

 

Bootstrap is merely a responsive framework.  You still need to know how to work with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript code.

 

Start here:

- https://www.w3schools.com/html/
- https://www.w3schools.com/css/
- https://www.w3schools.com/js/

- https://www.w3schools.com/bootstrap4/

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
Participating Frequently
February 23, 2021

I'm thinking I'm just going to start from scratch and not worry about whatever happened to my code. 

BenPleysier
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 23, 2021

Sorry, the pages that you are referring to d not use Bootstrap.

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Participating Frequently
February 23, 2021

Hi Ben...I probably shouldn't have tagged my question as a Bootstrap issue. I'm just trying to figure out why one of my html pages displays differently than the others on a mobile device, when the navigation code is identical on all pages.

It's just a coincidence that I'm experimenting with the Bootstrap templates - going back and forth between trying to educate myself, and attempting to update an old site, and suddenly one page in the site starts displaying larger on a phone. Something else is happening, so I'll see if there is a better area to post my question. Thank you!