It seems everyone is saying hello to bootstrap. Too bad very few build anything memorable upon it.
My site is pretty cool though: http://in.5thvillage.com/ http://www.5thvillage.com/
Don't bother clicking on the above site, is some kinda spam link
Goodbye Yahoo, Hello Bootstrap and Backbone.
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Re: Goodbye Yahoo, Hello Bootstrap and Backbone.
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well yes, a starting point - but not also the ending point at the same time. And by memorable I meant based on bootstrap but with own "personality", not bootstrap's.
Planscope has a great design out of the Twitter Bootstrap: https://planscope.io/
And we're using Backbone!
Re: Goodbye Yahoo, Hello Bootstrap and Backbone.
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well yes, a starting point - but not also the ending point at the same time. And by memorable I meant based on bootstrap but with own "personality", not bootstrap's.
How much of a site's personality would you consider is design, vs content and UX? I'm considering tweaking the over all colors and such for unscatter.com and chatfor.us (when I move chatfor.us to bootstrap) in order to differentiate them. I just haven't put a large focus on that, choosing to focus more on the functionality of the sites. I guess my opinion is Bootstrap is a great way to have an acceptable looking fron…
I have visited about 20 - 30 websites in last month that were all very obviously built with bootstrap. I can't remember even one of them (apart from the one in the topic). Because they looked and felt alike.
I think first impressions matter, and if a website/app won't make a good one on me, then they lost me as their potential customer.
The way bootstrap is built (LESS) - it allows to customize pretty much anything, widths, margins, borders, colors... To me it's just lazy if developers leave everything to the defaults and put the website/app on the web, and "see how it goes", then build on that.
Re: Goodbye Yahoo, Hello Bootstrap and Backbone.
#24Sorry, but your site has serious problems. Just adding Bootstrap without any knowledge of at least some basic designs does you no good. For example: * The text is wider than the screen and the scrolling destroys the readability of the text. Even when it would fit the screen, it makes a terrible reading experience * Apply paddings to the left and right edge of the screen. If the text touches the browser window, it loo…
Hey, thanks for recommending Design for Hackers! (I'm the author)