Font Awesome

With our styling framework in place, let’s review what our navigation bar looks like and figure out what we want to achieve:

The buttons we want to display on our navigation bar are Dashboard View (the Home view), New Client View, and Find Client View, along with a toggle button at the top to expand and collapse the bar.

A common UI design pattern is to represent simple commands with icons. Further information about the command can be obtained by a variety of means; for example, when you hover over the button, information can be displayed in a tooltip or a status bar at the bottom of the screen. Our approach will be to have a ...

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