After playing around with Bootstrap, I realized what a huge boon it was to my projects (programmer lacking in design skills). One thing I like about it is I don't have to pick colors. It does the border, button, text, and nav-bar colors for me. I don't trust myself to pick my own colors! I would really like a way to preview or be able to pick some other colors other people have made. Maybe you could expose a perma-link to a set of config options so they are easy to share.
I'm also amazed at how often I spot it now. Seems like it's everywhere.
I second the entire comment -- well, excluding the programmer lacking design skills.
As a developer with a decent amount of design skills, what I love is that their defaults are extremely easy to customise and extend where necessary.
> I'm also amazed at how often I spot it now. Seems like it's everywhere.
I also see it everywhere, which is the main impetus for me to come up with a completely customised version that reflects my design style. Hopefully more people do the same instead of just using it straight off of a clone.
would love to be included. Would be cool also if you could allow users just plug in any palette from www.colourlovers.com or patterns from subtlepatterns.com which would add quick/mass customization of a site and really simple/sweet A/B testing.
Ha, Darius from colourlovers was one of the first people I tested the idea out on over breakfast a few weeks back and he really warmed up to it, especially considering the ambitious marketplace he's building now:
Absolutely! Definitely inspired by all the Bootstrap activity I've been seeing here lately. Here's another one - a form builder based on Bootstrap and jquery:
Use sites like http://www.colourlovers.com/ to get inspiration for colors. If you are a programmer you should spend some time studying the color theory - much of it is based on math and you can actually often calculate which colors will work together.
Yep, responsiveness is the main feature of 2.0. Arguably not as responsive as other frameworks though as it doesn't use percentage widths to gradually scale columns. For a given width range, the column widths are fixed.
Agreed, I use it in all my projects now and it is a huge time saver. If nothing else, not having to futz around with form elements more than makes up for the added overhead.
I totally agree. I've been wondering for 15 years why every website has to have a special custom design anyway. With native apps, custom design almost always works against them, as opposed to the OS's default, familiar design.
Maybe in the future, something like Bootstrap will become the default way that web browsers render websites, and we can just get rid of most of the boilerplate CSS.
I'm also amazed at how often I spot it now. Seems like it's everywhere.