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Twitter Bootstrap header cheapens the whole thing for me. It's fine if you're designing the documentation for an open source project. It's not fine for a commercial product.



>user: Kudos

>about: Engineer at Engine Yard Founder of localhostr.com

wget http://localhostr.com

.. .. <div id="wrapper"> <div class="hero-container"> <div id="header"> <ul class="unstyled pull-right" id="top-nav"> ...

That sure looks like bootstrap to me.

While I understand that you said the bootstrap header cheapens the whole thing, I think that criticism is very "inside baseball", and in the wider market no one cares.

(Personally, I like the bootstrap header and I think anything that speeds up time-to-market should be applauded.)


My comment was not against using Bootstrap to bootstrap your design, it's against using Bootstrap as your design.


Understandable.. I used it to get something out the door. For launching a v1 and testing a concept, Bootstrap is pretty amazing. But when I redesign it, I'll definitely move away from the Bootstrap defaults. Thanks for the feedback


the target audience likely arent web developers let alone people that know bootstrap. I think it looks fine.


That's not really the point. If you build a website then web developers are your peers.


Of course that's the point. Just as you don't care what design firm did the packaging for your iphone, the target audience for this site doesn't care where he got his template.

It only cheapens it for you, in that you know it didn't take him as long as it could have.


But not necessarily your market.




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