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Why Every New Website Will Use Bootstrap | minimaxir
So, I decided to spruce up the blog a little bit. The old WordPress theme I had used, Graphene, had a lot of useful functionality, such as a featured post slider and a topbar for placing social media buttons, but the theme itself didn’t make the blog look unique. Even with a few CSS tweaks to add custom styling, such as forcing the titles of blog posts to be in all-capital letters, (which makes users more likely to click them!) Therefore, I resolved to develop and design a unique WordPress blog theme effectively from scratch, in order to ensure that my blog had a truly distinctive look and functionality. About Bootstrap Twitter Bootstrap is primarily developed by Twitter employees Mark Otto and Jacob Thorton (you can tell they work for Twitter because they are one of the lucky few with a 3-character Twitter handle), developed primarily to speed up the development of new websites, and is open-sourced on GitHub for anyone to contribute changes to the project. Bootstrap on Minimaxir
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Since the day Twitter Bootstrap came out, it has been immensely popular. And recently, there have been more and more posts that either go on and on about how great it is, or how over-used it is. Here are two I saw on the front page of hacker news today: This is just a very small subset of the massive number of popular articles I’ve seen about bootstrap, and they all seem to come from one of two angles: 1) I am not a professional designer, and bootstrap is a lifesaver for me, and 2) I am a professional designer, and it makes me ill that it’s being used so often rather than a real custom designs. There is no way to stop people that have no idea how to design and no design budget from using bootstrap. I know that there is a better way, and I have been working on a tool that can be used by intermediate and advanced developers that will speed up development time significantly while avoiding the four major pitfalls of bootstrap, which are in my opinion: Give it a thought.
20 Awesome Resources for Twitter Bootstrap Lovers
Generators Bootstrap Custom Build Before diving into great third party Bootstrap resources, it’s worth pointing out a great little tool right from Twitter that allows you to completely customize an impressive range of Boostrap features so that you can create a custom build that’s perfect for your project. If you haven’t checked out Bootstrap in a while, you should give this a look because it’s new with Twitter Bootstrap 2.0. Not only can you use it to take an overweight download and transform it into something lean, you can also save yourself a lot of CSS work by customizing colors, fonts etc. before you even initiate the download. StyleBootstrap.info As with Twitter’s own tool above, this tool allows you to use a simple interface to customize various aspects of Bootstrap. The app itself is also more visual than Twitter’s generator and allows you to see what your styles will look like before you hit that download button. Beautiful Buttons for Twitter Bootstrappers Theming BootstrapStyler
Please stop embedding Bootstrap classes in your HTML!
A few months ago, Twitter released Bootstrap, a UI framework for websites that caused such an impression that it quickly become the most followed project on Github. Its popularity is due mostly to the fact that it allows developers with weak design skills such as myself to quickly create an application that looks at worst adequate, and at best, quite attractive. I'm a huge fan. Bootstrap also appeals to developers because it's implemented in Less, a CSS preprocessor written in Javascript that you can run in your browser, allowing a comfortable developer workflow and compatibility with sites written in Ruby, Python, PHP, or any other technology you can make web applications with. But along with Bootstrap has emerged an ugly, insidious and destructive developer antipattern: embedding Bootstrap's CSS classes directly in HTML. Let's see what these classes look like: <div class="row"><div class="span6">... What's wrong with this? Quoting the W3C: This is why table-based layout fell out of favor.
15 More Twitter Bootstrap Resources
Twitter Bootstrap now gaining popularity in web development area, because it providing many common usable user interface component, combining with nice simple themes, css framework and javascript element. Many tutorial and resources has been developed to help us getting familiar with bootstrap, in today post I post some more bootstrap resouces that might be useful, I say it “more” cause there are the same article showing bootstrap resources and tools (posted on the bottom of this post), well at least these haven’t been listed before. Yii Bootstrap Bringing together the Yii PHP framework and Twitter Bootstrap . Yii-Bootstrap is an extension for Yii that provides a wide range of widgets that allow developers to easily use Bootstrap with Yii. [ visit source ] Twitter Bootstrap 2.0 Photoshop Template PSD BootSwatchr ThemeRoller for Bootstrap, Bootstrap is an awesome tool, and BootSwatchr helps you keep it looking awesome. Keynotopia Bootstrap BootTheme Alien Ship Editable for Bootstrap Roots Theme
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