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Take a look at my personal site without checking the source: http://willholloway.net/ http://willholloway.net/ Can you instantly tell if it was built with boo

Take a look at my personal site without checking the source: http://willholloway.net/ http://willholloway.net/ Can you instantly tell if it was built with boostrap?

NoodleIncident 13y ago
Yes. The buttons on the bottom give it away. Critiques: The site looks bad on a sideways phone due to premature responsive design. I had to flip to vertical to actually see anything. More importantly, after scrolling to the bottom and clicking the 'up' button, it took about 25 back-button taps to get back here. Don't mess with URLs, please.
- mindcrime 13y ago
  More importantly, after scrolling to the bottom and clicking the 'up' button, it took about 25 back-button taps to get back here. Don't mess with URLs, please. Yeah, please don't break the back button. That's one of the surest ways to guarantee that I won't be visiting your site again.
r0s 13y ago
Yes, the buttons on the contact area. Also, the skewed proportions of these elements: http://i.imgur.com/mGnCSp6.jpg http://i.imgur.com/mGnCSp6.jpg on one resolution leads me to think you're relying on a grid framework,(in this case bootstrap) perhaps too much.
willholloway 13y ago
Update: Thanks for the feedback, I agree that the internal url changes on scrolling is undesirable and removed that. It's popular right now for single page sites, but it does break the back button. The feedback was good and helped me improve my site a bit. The benefits of Bootstrap here for me was that it and a sub $20 theme from wrapbootsrap.com let me put up a very nice looking site that works very well cross platform in a couple hours and does not look bootstrappy at all. The icon distortion for a rarely used resolution isn't the fault of bootstrap, and could be fixed with a small css change. Those icons are temporary and not worth changing right now. HN seems to really look for the negative and avoid the benefits lately.

Take a look at my personal site without checking the source: http://willholloway.net/ http://willholloway.net/ Can you instantly tell if it was built with boostrap?

NoodleIncident 13y ago

Yes. The buttons on the bottom give it away. Critiques: The site looks bad on a sideways phone due to premature responsive design. I had to flip to vertical to actually see anything. More importantly, after scrolling to the bottom and clicking the 'up' button, it took about 25 back-button taps to get back here. Don't mess with URLs, please.

mindcrime 13y ago
More importantly, after scrolling to the bottom and clicking the 'up' button, it took about 25 back-button taps to get back here. Don't mess with URLs, please. Yeah, please don't break the back button. That's one of the surest ways to guarantee that I won't be visiting your site again.

r0s 13y ago

Yes, the buttons on the contact area. Also, the skewed proportions of these elements: http://i.imgur.com/mGnCSp6.jpg http://i.imgur.com/mGnCSp6.jpg on one resolution leads me to think you're relying on a grid framework,(in this case bootstrap) perhaps too much.

willholloway 13y ago

Update: Thanks for the feedback, I agree that the internal url changes on scrolling is undesirable and removed that. It's popular right now for single page sites, but it does break the back button. The feedback was good and helped me improve my site a bit. The benefits of Bootstrap here for me was that it and a sub $20 theme from wrapbootsrap.com let me put up a very nice looking site that works very well cross platform in a couple hours and does not look bootstrappy at all. The icon distortion for a rarely used resolution isn't the fault of bootstrap, and could be fixed with a small css change. Those icons are temporary and not worth changing right now. HN seems to really look for the negative and avoid the benefits lately.