I recently finished designing/developing my blog, and I agree to extent. I think the trick is to use the minimum viable framework. I just wanted to create a sim

I recently finished designing/developing my blog, and I agree to extent. I think the trick is to use the minimum viable framework. I just wanted to create a simple two column responsive layout with the ability to add columns easily within the main article column. Obviously, I'm not going to write that CSS myself: that'd be reinventing the wheel. Stupidly, I started by using Bootstrap because it was the hot thing to do. I quickly stopped because I reailized I had to override far too much stuff to get what I wanted. Then I switched to Foundation, thinking it would be less opinionated and easier to override. I struggled with it for much longer and despite getting to a seemingly okay point with the development, there was a consistent yet hard to reproduce bug with JavaScript related to the collapsed top bar. On top of that, it still didn't look 'good' to me, and my CSS file wa already getting pretty big with the overriding styles, on top of the already big framework files. Then I remembered that I had actually seen Skeleton on HN and had planned on using it, but forgot to (maybe I should use Evernote more). Deleted all my previous work, made a new design in 20 minutes, and within an hour I was back to the same point I was previous. I completed the rest within a day, and the blog is now good to go. Skeleton had all I needed: a responsive grid, good default styling, and good typography. I didn't need any of the other stuff that these Frameworks provided. I dropped Javascript entirely except for syntax highlighting via Prettify. I could also have, in retrospect, using the customize functions on the Foundation or Bootstrap websites (although they're not that flexible and I still would have had to override just as much stuff). But Skeleton was a perfect fit. Had I used it originally, the development would have taken much less time than if I had tried to do all the necessary styling myself. Despite all the hiccups, it was probably quicker anyway. TL;DR it should be obvious to most of you, but use as minimal as a framework as you need.