Why we love Twitter Bootstrap and why you should too

"Ignore advanced web developers complaining about ‘not another Bootstrap website’" I agree. It's your customers that matter. And unless you're building a product for advanced web developers, pleasing them should be no matter to you.<p>I've shown Bootstrap sites to non-developers and the response is usually that the sites look nice. Never has it been "ug. boostrap?".

Obviously I love bootstrap otherwise I wouldn't be building Jetstrap. But really, bootstrap is an extremely solid framework, and you can do a ton of customizations to make it look completely non-default (for example, our designer built our company site in a day with bootstrap+jetstrap which looks completely customized: <a href="http://drifty.co/" rel="nofollow">http://drifty.co/</a>).<p>You will implement the same structures if you don't use it, so you might as well take advantage of the framework and invest in a nice custom design.

&#62; "You are not a crusader for artistic and unique web design"<p>Thanks for reminding me of what you have no business reminding me of.<p>Yet another article telling me what I am, what I should and shouldn't do.<p>The flip side is that HTML and CSS is not rocket science. It's rewarding and valuable to build your own sites.<p>If your code is "untidy at best" I would recommend you find another job where you skills don't amount to "untidy". Good luck.

Some great CDN hosted (for free) sources for twitter bootstrap files to help new users get going:<p><a href="http://hostedbootstrap.com/" rel="nofollow">http://hostedbootstrap.com/</a> <a href="http://www.bootstrapcdn.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.bootstrapcdn.com</a> <a href="http://cdnjs.com/" rel="nofollow">http://cdnjs.com/</a>

Not trying to be rude, but you might wanna take a second look at the frontpage of Task Messenger – not the greatest advert for Bootstrap :)<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/7H0dGnI.png?1" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/7H0dGnI.png?1</a><p>Safari 6 on OSX by the way.

What's always surprised me is people taking the compiled CSS and working directly off of that.<p>I thought the whole point was that since it's LESS, you can change things up really easily.

They're awesome. It's just that their JS gives me cancer.

Aaaand they're down.

Did anyone else first see this <a href="http://i.imgur.com/kglXUKw.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/kglXUKw.png</a> or this <a href="http://i.imgur.com/KxRY9Vo.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/KxRY9Vo.png</a> and immediately laugh out loud like I did?

Anyone have a mirror? Seems to be down for me.

Can I use bootstrap without jQuery?