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Twitter Bootstrap Generator

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Re: Twitter Bootstrap Generator

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Post by infocaptor »

Periodic wrote: post #7

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-li…

I am all over bootstrap. My both sites http://www.mockuptiger.com and https://www.wireframes.org are done with bootstrap

I will be converting my other sites all to bootstrap. But with slight color changes it can provide a difference but consistency

Re: Twitter Bootstrap Generator

#42

Post by josscrowcroft »

This is awesome! But I want to be able to save my preferences on it, either by permalinking them (useful-ish) OR in localStorage (better) or both (whoa yeah party)

So it could have a 'save to localStorage' button, then a list of your previous saved configurations in a side panel?

Excellent work!

Re: Twitter Bootstrap Generator

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Post by josscrowcroft »

josscrowcroft wrote: post #42

This is awesome! But I want to be able to save my preferences on it, either by permalinking them (useful-ish) OR in localStorage (better) or both (whoa yeah party) So it could have a 'save to localStorage' button, then a list of your previous saved configurations in a side panel? Excellent work!

Also - is the bootstrap generator on github?

Re: Twitter Bootstrap Generator

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Post by sopooneo »

I am really not trying to stir a pot here. I am truly looking to learn. But the whole idea of bootstrap seems to go against other stuff I used to read about how to use css. I understood that your markup should be semantic and detached from you layout and style as much as possible. But when you use the bootstrap grid to arrange your page, you are absolutely mixing content and layout.

For me, I always thought actually fully separating markup and layout/styling was a pipe dream, and unless you're going to absolutely fill your page with id's and classes (a la zen garden) and spend enormous time tweaking things, then a major overhaul will require changing markup anyway, so why bother? But that seemed to fly in the face of advice I was reading. But using a grid seems to fly in the face of that old advice too. So what's the deal? Do people no longer think markup and styling/layout should be separated? Or was I just misinterpreting what I read in the past?

Re: Twitter Bootstrap Generator

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Post by cstejerean »

sopooneo wrote: post #45

I am really not trying to stir a pot here. I am truly looking to learn. But the whole idea of bootstrap seems to go against other stuff I used to read about how to use css. I understood that your markup should be semantic and detached from you layout and style as much as possible. But when you use the bootstrap grid to arrange your page, you are absolutely mixing content and layout. For me, I always thought actually…

It's still a good idea to separate markup and styling. In the interest of getting things that look decent out the door quickly it's often necessary to postpone ideological purity.

If your idea proves successful then over time you will need to evolve away from bootstrap anyway, and you can get cleaner markup and style along the way.

If your idea proves unsuccessful, good thing you didn't waste too much time on a pure semantic markup.

Re: Twitter Bootstrap Generator

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Post by kennu »

Periodic wrote: post #7

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-li…

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.

Re: Twitter Bootstrap Generator

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Post by mmahemoff »

masterj wrote: post #35
mgcross wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you need a responsive grid with a similar aesthetic, check out Zurb's Foundation: http://foundation.zurb.com

I believe bootstrap will be adding a responsive grid with bootstrap 2.0, currently being developed in the 2.0-wip branch. http://bootstrap.io/Demo/Scaffolding

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.

Re: Twitter Bootstrap Generator

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Post by mmahemoff »

sopooneo wrote: post #45

I am really not trying to stir a pot here. I am truly looking to learn. But the whole idea of bootstrap seems to go against other stuff I used to read about how to use css. I understood that your markup should be semantic and detached from you layout and style as much as possible. But when you use the bootstrap grid to arrange your page, you are absolutely mixing content and layout. For me, I always thought actually…

Right - grids are basically table-based layout with credibility.

Still, the clue is in the name. "Bootstrap" your app, then faff it into pure web standards over time, should the app prove popular.

Less time wasted on an app you don't know will fly.

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