Designing a new project with this... it's literally saving me about 3-6 weeks worth of work. Thanks @Twitter.
Bootstrap 2.0, From Twitter
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Re: Bootstrap 2.0, From Twitter
#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you sure people wouldn't have an easier time finding the nav links on your site if they were in a bar? They look a lot like body text to me now, which might be the issue. Have you done any testing?
I think a bar might work and that testing would be the best way to see. The point about pricing in particular is that there is a huge button in the middle of the page, and people are still not clicking it. My instincts are that a black bar at the top of the screen would be nearly invisible to these people, many of whom are more advanced in their years than the average HN user.
Currently you have no real user feedback on any of your buttons other than cursor change. When a user hovers over a button I would suggest defining a hover state for the button.
As for the "view plans and prices, get started" I believe a smaller button that is better positioned with a hover effect would get significantly better results. Even a simple change such as changing that text to something a little shorter like "Get Started Now", "View Plans" or " View Prices" will get you better results.
Ultimately I believe you would see significant improvements using bootstrap across your site. Some examples of what others have done with bootstrap can be found here http://builtwithbootstrap.com
Re: Bootstrap 2.0, From Twitter
#163I had bookmarked this thread and had decided to give bootstrap a try. My other option was jquery (including jquery UI). I am mainly a programmer and not a natural designer.
After about a day or so of trying out to move my existing UI (of a fairly successful app) to bootstrap, I found it a bit limiting in some ways. The commonest one being to try and change the color of the nav bar.
Also the 'brand' style in Nav bar should support logos too. Perhaps provide a css code for it.
Also in general there is just one way(albiet good) you can do for all things, which I also did not like.
In a comparative way, jquery UI themes, give me a better default option over there. And I can choose a theme from several themes.
Another thing is that many of the bootstrap's components example 'TypeAhead' are again jquery plugins, for which you get competing options in the Jquery UI.
I also think, that creators of bootstrap are hurrying up with version numbers. 2.0 is a very aggressive call. In the light of, just a few months back, we just heard of bootstrap on HN. Opensource versioning has to more trustworthy than corporate versioning (a recent good example is node.js they are .6xxx . Jquery itself is still 1.7.xxx)
The above are my brief thoughts after playing with it for a day or so. Hope it helps somebody.