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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

FAQs on FAQs: BYOT - Bring Your Own Theme (part 1)

Welcome back to FAQs on FAQs, a series designed to help you get the most out of your LibraryH3lp-powered FAQ. Last time, we covered the 17 pre-configured themes available for your FAQ. In this installment, we reveal even more possibilities and some under-the-hood goodies.

bootstrap
Built with Bootstrap. LibraryH3lp-powered FAQs are built on top of Bootstrap, which is a popular and powerful front-end framework for web development. That means that you get a lot of mileage right out of the box.
You've already seen all this in action on your FAQ site. And you can take advantage of everything Bootstrap has to offer when customizing your FAQ.

Icons galore. Icons are one key area where we've purposely diverged from Bootstrap. Bootstrap icons are nice, but Font Awesome icons are awesomer. All 249 Font Awesome icons are at your disposal. You've already seen a few of these in action in the right sidebar template. And one really cool thing about font-based icons - they automatically change color with your theme unlike images. Go through the themes again, notice how the icon coloring changes to match the text?

The big reveal. Even more themes. Because Bootstrap is so popular, there are tons of people creating and selling themes for very reasonable prices or even for free. So if one of the 17 pre-configured themes doesn't fit the bill, you have literally hundreds of other pre-made choices. Or you can even create your own.

Next time we'll go into the specifics of how you can leverage Bootstrap, Font Awesome, and custom themes on your FAQ. Have suggestions or ideas for the FAQs on FAQs series? Want to get your own FAQ site up and running? Need to import existing content into your FAQ? E-mail us.

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