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Austin Klenk
4,399 PointsThoughts on Twitter Bootstrap
I am currently building a rails app for my company and i'm not sure if i should use twitter bootstrap or design everything myself.. only thing alike about bootstrap is the responsiveness feature. Any Ideas on bootstrap or any other platforms to build on?
3 Answers
Konrad Pilch
2,435 PointsHi, you can build your website with Foundatoin . Bootstrap is a parent of it so i believe foundation is more powerful, thats what i heared from other developers.
Well, if you code it your self, it can take longer yes , but unless your CSS is pretty good , i think you should be ok . Bootstrap is coded by professionals i believe . But theres one thing about it. You downolad lots and lots of code that you will not use which will slow donw user band and the page will load some miliseconds slower. Believe me , this counts . Taking away the useless code can be tricky .
Other point is , if you started with CSS, did bootstrap and then though you have even a better idea about CSS, i think this can be good too. But yet , watch out your time . It takes pretty long to make a project with pure CSS . I have an idea of making a header class like header1 header2 with certain margins, colors etc.. that i want to put them like <h1>Hello</h1> this will be bold 2em and if i put in my other class <h2>Hello</2> this can be small : p well you know what i mean i hope : p
Hope this helps
Fernando Claussen
9,324 PointsThis is really up to you. I don't use bootstrap much. I find it adds too much stuff that is not necessary and makes my code ugly with all those classes.
It's a matter of taste.
Just please, for the sake of performance, don't load up the entire bootstrap and use just 1 thing.
Austin Klenk
4,399 PointsIt is a rails app
Konrad Pilch
2,435 PointsOh righti i forget : p . You can take out WP then : p
Konrad Pilch
2,435 PointsKonrad Pilch
2,435 PointsOh also , you can use WP too. YOu may make it on ground and then for easines put it in WP maybe. Like Fernando said, dont load all bootstrap files that are not necessary.
Konrad Pilch
2,435 PointsKonrad Pilch
2,435 PointsOh ohter thing, if you code with pure CSS, you will gain knowledge that can leed you up with a master CSS after years ^^ My plan is to switch from bootstrap to CSS when i get a better idea of classes and CSS work etc. how can i structure things ^^
Its up to you.
Austin Klenk
4,399 PointsAustin Klenk
4,399 PointsWhat is WP?
Fernando Claussen
9,324 PointsFernando Claussen
9,324 PointsI think Konrad meant Wordpress by WP.
He probably forgot that this was supposed to be a rails app
Konrad Pilch
2,435 PointsKonrad Pilch
2,435 PointsOh to add on, if im correct, Ruby on Rails uses bootstrap as well?