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It's also worth noting that sites only look "bootstrappy" to developers. Among the general public and user base, they just want a site that looks decent enough
by personZ 12y ago
It's also worth noting that sites only look "bootstrappy" to developers. Among the general public and user base, they just want a site that looks decent enough and functions well across devices, which is what bootstrap offers.
This is, however, very much a follow the leader industry, where the purportedly innovative designs are all follow the leader. Right now the trend is overwhelmingly for the overloaded scroll, the images that fade in on scroll in, the fixed back images, the hero board (a lot of these came into parlance via the NY Times Snow special feature which was quite innovative at the time. Similar to how AJAX gained broad awareness with Google suggests). These are absolutely cliche at this point, but it is held as the high point of design. In two years it will look positively beginner.
- davidw 12y ago> It's also worth noting that sites only look "bootstrappy" to developers. Among the general public and user base, they just want a site that looks decent enough and functions well across devices, which is what bootstrap offers. This is the key point: it's all about your users. Most people out there in the real world just want something that looks decent and works reasonably well. They don't know and don't care whether your site was made with Bootstrap or uses Erlang or whatever.