 <p>would something like this work? <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/swm53ran/312/" rel="nofollow">http://jsfiddle.net/swm53ran/312/</a></p> <p>if you want to see how the structure could happen over and over again, you could just add the sectioned off divs like in this fiddle: <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/swm53ran/313/" rel="nofollow">http://jsfiddle.net/swm53ran/313/</a></p> <pre><code>&lt;div class="body"&gt; &lt;div class="header col-xs-12"&gt; &lt;div class="row"&gt; &lt;div class="title col-xs-offset-1 col-xs-5"&gt; This is the title &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="nav col-xs-5"&gt; This is your nav &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="container col-xs-10 col-xs-offset-1"&gt; This is where your content goes. &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; </code></pre>