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> Arbitrarily adding fonts, colors, and background images take a perfectly usable layout and make it look like something straight out of 2002. For sure. I've
by pseut 14y ago
> Arbitrarily adding fonts, colors, and background images take a perfectly usable layout and make it look like something straight out of 2002.
For sure. I've seen a lot of these "improve bootstrap" articles that advocate adding fonts, colors, etc. But, at the end of the day, the webpage is still obviously twitter bootstrap with a few tweaks (almost always for the worse. I'm not a designer, but "oversized header + buttons for links + 2 or 3 columns below the header" (and often with something functionally equivalent to a menu bar at the top) is so clearly bootstrap that I don't understand making any effort to hide it.
- josh_blum 14y agoI don't think the effort is so much to hide it as it is to make the site more your own.
- weisser 14y ago> But, at the end of the day, the webpage is still obviously twitter bootstrap with a few tweaks Certainly, but is your site targeting developers? If not, the average person has no idea what bootstrap is. They will like the site if it has a decent layout and does something useful, fun or solves a problem. I think you should always strive to make something unique but trying to hide the fact that you built something with bootstrap from people who don't even know what that is seems like a waste of time.
- john_flintstone 14y agoIt's only clearly Bootstrap to people who have heard of Bootstrap. 99.999% of your visitors will never have heard of Bootstrap, will never have heard the word 'framework.'
- pseut 14y agoThat's not true. I'm not a designer or a developer, but I recognized sites that in retrospect clearly used bootstrap well before I heard about it. The hero bar, buttons for links, and (usually) three explanatory columns are pretty distinctive design elements even to people who don't use the tool.