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title: Welcome to Foundation 6
description: We built Foundation for Sites to be the most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world.
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## Installing Foundation

There are a number of ways to install Foundation for Sites. Our installation page will help you find the best option for you.

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## New to Foundation for Sites?

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  <p>The number one way to learn your way around Foundation and start mastering responsive web development is via the training courses offered by the ZURB team.</p>
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With an easy to understand syntax and consistent structure, you'll learn your way around Foundation in no time!

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            <p>This video will take you through downloading and getting started with the Foundation CSS project.</p>
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            <p>This video will take you through downloading and getting started with the Foundation ZURB stack.</p>
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            <h5>The World’s Most Advanced Front-end Framework</h5>
            <p>Coming from another framework? It’s the perfect time to make the switch and learn Foundation. Download our free e-book that will help you convince your team that Foundation is better, easier to learn, and more flexible than anything else out there.
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            <h5>Build Your Career on a Solid Foundation</h5>
            <p>Web technologies are rapidly changing, but time and resources are finite. Find out why Learning Foundation places you at the cutting edge of the website development.
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            <p>Get eight responsive templates to kick off your projects built with the same techniques we teach in our Introduction to Foundation 6 Course to build your business upon.</p>
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            <p>Building Blocks are coded UI components you can drop into any standard Foundation project. Building Blocks will help you rapidly accelerate your development time.</p>
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            <p>Foundation Kits are curated bundles of Building Blocks designed for building specific types of websites and apps. Download from 7 powerful Kits to jumpstart your next project.</p>
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            <p>Learning a framework for the first time can be overwhelming, so we’ve put together “Zero to Website,” a 60-page guide that will walk you through coding a real, live, responsive website from scratch with Foundation.</p>
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            <p>Master Foundation ultra fast. The Foundation team will get you up to speed on everything you need to know to get the most out of Foundation 6.</p>
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## Experienced with Foundation for Sites?

With an easy to understand syntax and consistent structure, you'll learn your way around Foundation in no time!

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            <p>Foundation 6.3.1 contains plenty of bug fixes underlying reworks to old features. Along with bug fixes, Foundation gets some some new Sass mixins and optimizations that make it work in more scenarios and the docs got a lot of love. Enjoy it!</p>
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            <p>Building Blocks are coded UI components you can drop into any standard Foundation project. Building Blocks will help you rapidly accelerate your development time.</p>
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            <p>The awesome folks at Pinecone created an Angular port for Foundation. Angular.js assists with creating single-page applications, one-page web applications that only require HTML, CSS, and JavaScript on the client side.</p>
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            <p>React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces. Now you can use Foundation for Sites 6 components implemented in React with CSS Modules!</p>
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            <p>JointsWP is a blank WordPress theme built with Foundation 6, giving you all the power and flexibility you need to build complex, mobile friendly websites without starting from scratch.</p>
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            <p>This is a demo integration of Foundation for Sites 6.3 in a VueJS 2.1 single-page application.</p>
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            <p>This year Foundation turned five years old. It was the first to be responsive, the first to be semantic, the first to be mobile first, the first to be built with Sass, and the first to have accessibility built in. Learn more about the framework and where it's going next.</p>
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            <p>Big brands are relying more and more on the world's most advanced, responsive front-end framework. Their sites are now built so that customers can connect with them on any device.</p>
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