--- title: Getting Started With Foundation CSS ---
First, after you unzip the package, move the folder to your desired location and open it in a text editor. If you don't have one already, we use Sublime Text here at ZURB because it's very customizable, powerful, and simply rocks.
The ```index.html``` is your homepage. It has been linked up with foundation.css, normalize, and all the necessary JavaScript files for you. Just add your code between the ```
``` tags.Next, you should create a new stylesheet and link it in the header of your HTML file, like so:
{{#markdown}} ``` ``` {{/markdown}}Note: At ZURB, we call our custom stylesheets ```app.css```. This is important for updating purposes: if you are going to add custom stylings to Foundation components, the code should be copied into your ```app.css``` file and edited there.
The default CSS for Foundation is kept here. You can find the component and its settings there. You will use this file as you are developing because it's easier to read.
A minified, much smaller CSS file you can use if you don't need or want to pick apart the actual underlying Foundation CSS.
We've included a copy of Normalize here to give you the option to remove quirks in browsers so that all webpages render elements consistently. We recommend you use this because some Foundation styles are dependant on it.
If you are using any Foundation JavaScript components, this needs to be loaded on the page. We recommend at the end before your closing ```
``` tags like so: {{#markdown}} ```html {{> examples_css_javascript_include}} ``` {{/markdown}}This is a directory that contains each plugin as a single JavaScript file, so you can check out the source code. And if you'd like, include certain ones but not others, or do your own minifying.
This folder contains a few external JS files that Foundation makes use of including: Modernizr, another open-source tool from Paul Irish and Nicolas Gallagher, as well as jQuery 2.
This is an example index file which contains some sample markup (the grid, buttons, etc) as well as the basic structure of a responsive Foundation page. Feel free to change or destroy this file as you see fit, just bear in mind that some of the document ```
``` is required for the page to work including the CSS/JS that is linked up at the end of the document.Located in the site root just next to the robots.txt file. You don't have to use if you don't want. You can mention the developer, the designer, the copywriter, the webmaster, the SEO, SEM or SMO. Name as many people who helped make the site, or not.
Website owners use the robots.txt file to give instructions about their site to web-crawling robots (also known as Web Wanderers, Crawlers, or Spiders). This is called The Robots Exclusion Protocol. Adding this page allows you to block web robots from indexing parts of your site. You can read more about it here.
In order to update your Foundation CSS when we release a new version, we recommend keeping your ```foundation.css``` file clean of any changes. Any components that you want to add your own stylings to should be copied to your ```app.css``` file where you can make changes there.
Note: be sure to link the ```app.css``` stylesheet into the ```
``` of your file.