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Creating your own theme in Wordpress using Twitter Bootstrap - Part I

 Recently I came across twitter bootstrap( @twbootstrap) a front-end toolkit to develop web applications.  Since Eejot's website needed a facelift, I decided to use wordpress and create my own customized theme using bootstrap.  Here are the steps that I followed:  1. Install WordPress. Here are the instructions to do it  ( wordpress installation guide).  2. Download Bootstrap and extract it ( bootstrap ).  3. Navigate to the wp-content > themes folder.  4. Create a new folder named "eejot_ver1" and paste the bootstrap folder.  5. Once we have done these, we need to create certain files to convert bootstrap files to WordPress template and WordPress file name requirement. We start by creating these files in the same folder we pasted the bootstrap folder in.  index.php header.php footer.php style.css Folder Structure 6. For this website we are going to use the carousel template. The html code can be found under boots...