About Gardens
This Beautiful Gardens site features four garden settings at three different locations. They have different kinds of gardens and a wide variety of plants. All of the Beautiful Gardens pictures were taken by me.
Balboa Park
San Diego, California
Cedar Valley Arboretum
Waterloo, Iowa
UC Irvine campus
Irvine, California
Desert Garden
San Diego, California
After taking in the pictures on this site I encourage you to find out more about the gardens using the Links page.
About Website
The Beautiful Gardens website was developed as a static site generator boilerplate for use on my innermind.com website. Rather than going the Lorem ipsum text with dummy images route, actual content was used to give a better feel for what a website would look like. The boilerplate can be used as a starting point for a static generated site or just serve as an example of how a site of this type can be done. The source code to this website and how to use the code can be found on the Beautiful Gardens Github page .
Features Include
- Gulp.js task runner for automation
- Uses Bootstrap CSS framework
- Panini flat file generator for compiling HTML and layouts into HTML pages
- Templating using Handlebars
- SASS to CSS conversion
- CSS Autoprefixing
- Sitewide CSS and JavaScript output to single files
- CSS and JavaScript file minification
- Choose Bootstrap CSS and JavaScript components to use in project
- Supports using certain CSS and JavaScript files only on specific pages
- Watch for file changes to recompile
- Live reload browser with BrowserSync
- Separate handling of images in picture gallery
- Responsive light gallery supporting touch and swipe navigation with jQuery lightgallery
- Cross-browser CSS animations with animate.css
- Table sorting with jquery.tablesorter.js (FORK)
- Scroll to top of page
