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Re: Twitter Bootstrap Generator

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Post by pault » Fri, Jan 13, 2012, 7:36 PM UTC

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…

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.

Re: Twitter Bootstrap Generator

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Post by peterhunt » Fri, Jan 13, 2012, 7:43 PM UTC

I would like a pre-set color palette option

Re: Twitter Bootstrap Generator

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Post by tstegart » Fri, Jan 13, 2012, 7:48 PM UTC

cfontes wrote: post #5

Very nice, being able to see the CSS applied to some generic HTML before downloading would be cool too! Thanks for the nice work.

Definitely! And also maybe include the base HTML file.

Re: Twitter Bootstrap Generator

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Post by ineedtosleep » Fri, Jan 13, 2012, 7:49 PM UTC

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 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.

Re: Twitter Bootstrap Generator

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Post by bravolima » Fri, Jan 13, 2012, 7:51 PM UTC

just to clarify, I didn't create the generator. I saw it on the bootstrap google group:

http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-bootstrap/browse_thre...

The author wrote it in one evening which makes it even more impressive.

Re: Twitter Bootstrap Generator

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Post by rmason » Fri, Jan 13, 2012, 7:55 PM UTC

There's an entire ecosystem coalescing around Bootstrap and I love it. It's the framework for the coders who are design challenged. I know more and more people like me who are incorporating it in every project they build. In time it will raise the minimum level design bar for the entire web.

Re: Twitter Bootstrap Generator

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Post by Griever » Fri, Jan 13, 2012, 8:01 PM UTC

Excellent stuff! You may want to keep an eye out as Bootstrap 2 is probably going to come out any day now if the Issues tracker on Github is any indicator.

Re: Twitter Bootstrap Generator

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Post by pault » Fri, Jan 13, 2012, 8:05 PM UTC

ineedtosleep wrote: post #14

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 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…

I suspect we will see a wave of "skins" released for it soon.

Re: Twitter Bootstrap Generator

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Post by fourspace » Fri, Jan 13, 2012, 8:26 PM UTC

This is pretty cool.

That said, a Bootstrap generator that generates LESS, which in turn generates CSS? Seems overengineered. Almost all of these variables are in variables.less anyway. I'd hope that anyone setting up Bootstrap has the skills to edit this one file.

https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/blob/master/lib/variabl...

Re: Twitter Bootstrap Generator

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Post by politician » Fri, Jan 13, 2012, 9:08 PM UTC

fourspace wrote: post #19

This is pretty cool. That said, a Bootstrap generator that generates LESS, which in turn generates CSS? Seems overengineered. Almost all of these variables are in variables.less anyway. I'd hope that anyone setting up Bootstrap has the skills to edit this one file. https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/blob/master/lib/variabl...

Isn't that a bit like saying your refactoring IDE which generates some high-level language which in turn generates machine code is over-engineered?