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I'm about to embark on a very large front end build project, and probably reusing the same grid for many sites. The back-end developers in my team are raving and raving about Bootstrap and how we should be using it.
I've started using it and it's very good, but our grid has become more complex than the Bootstrap one. So I've drilled into the LESS files and added some of my own rules and modified the responsive grid. I also might need to change and add the media queries in there.
So my question is, considering that I'm having to change and customize Bootstrap quite a bit, would it be best practice to do this or create my grid/framework from scratch?
I would suggest that you use bootstrap and apply customizations per you needs. In our case, we provide a couple of additional .less files, and #import them in bootstrap.less. We use one for variables, imported right below variables.less and one for classes, imported at the end of the boostrap.less list. This way, you ensure that you can override both variables and classes, and include your own, while at the same time you remain compatible with future bootstrap updates
first check how many things you have to build in twitter bootstrap to match it with your framework. i think twitter bootstrap comes with responsive grids so you don't have to work with lots of stuff + Less is there to customize the way you want. check http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/less.html
if the no. of functionality's are too much then think in terms of project budget and in future how twitter bootstrap can be useful. it will answer everything i guess :)
Have a look with jqgrid http://www.trirand.com/blog/jqgrid/jqgrid.html, It can be customised to a great extent..with little tweak we can integrate that with BootStrap
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Please help me, I'm very new to web development. So far I've only learned how to make non-responsive webpages. I'm self-teaching myself everything and I'm getting confused with responsive design. What is the best approach to making a responsive webpage if your project has its own customized theme?
How do you learn all the classes in bootstrap? I'm so lost at using bootstrap, how are you supposed to know all the classes to utilize when you want to make or adjust things?
My mind is scattered right now I may not be asking the exact question that I have in mind.. But basically all I want to know is if I should use media queries for a responsive customized theme webpage or should I learn bootstrap? thanks in advance
bootstrap has some ok documentation and starter code for most of their components and snippets on how to use their different css classes.
You can find information about how to use their different classes here:
http://getbootstrap.com/css/
You can find information about how to use their different components (plus code examples) here:
http://getbootstrap.com/components/
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I am currently new to HTML and CSS. I completed codecademy's HTMl/CSS course yesterday and started working on something which doesnt really have a use but it will touch on everything and I will finish it as I learn more including PHP. I am using bootstrap right now and it honestly feels like I am cheating. I have tried to do everything myself but it basically gives you a navbar which I wont just steal and use, I will try to make my own later on. This is my current site: http://i.imgur.com/nM3wzWv.png
What should I be using? Should I cut out bootstrap and try to do everything with my own CSS?
I mean I did use my own CSS for the positioning but it doesnt seem like much. What do professionals use? Thanks.
Professionals mainly use Bootstrap or Foundation (since these are the most popular frameworks). If you're completely new, it's probably not a bad idea to code some websites from scratch to improve and probably even perfect your basic HTML/CSS skills and once you're comfortable I highly recommend using a framework. As for Bootstrap you can check out the documentation. It is very detailed and once you've figured out the basics, you're way faster than coding everything from scratch.
Generally speaking a professional application parts from a CSS framework of choise and goes arround to customizing it as needed for the application. Of course in order to learn you should neglect those when just starting in order to learn more.
professionaly speaking you use as much "premade" code as possible. That is the reason for the grat ammount of frameworks in any language.
is like asking is it okay to use JQuery it feels like cheating normally I would write like 20 lines of code but using JQuery it became a one liner.
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So this has been a topic of debate between me and another coder. We are using foundation for a project and he really likes following the system they provide. I like to venture out when it doesn't fit exactly.
An example was this was when I was doing the login form and I wanted a singular sized view that looks the same on every view. I created a login form with a solid width and centered with margins. He comes back to the code and puts it in foundation with large/medium/small columns. The justification was that they know how to handle responsiveness better than us. I just wanted stack overflow's opinion on this one.
When is it right to use a css framework and when should you go outside of it?
I guess on big projects, where you'd like to use each an every feature that a css framework provides, you should go for it. Whereas in small websites, using Bootstrap/Foundation would be a slow-down factor.
Otherwise if you are confident with building a responsive framework yourself, you should go ahead. But, if you feel you aren't take help from others in the form of css frameworks.
This question is way too broad and there can be many possible answers. The above is just my point of view.
First of all if you already have experience with one framework, unless you're doing it for research stick with it.
Otherwise you could check this comparison.
Also if you're using a web framework like Rails, Spring MVC, etc, check the integration status between the both frameworks.
Another point you should care is the community, and in my humble opinion bootstrap wins (as my personal perception).
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I use CSS to stylize my pages. I use % style instead of using px values. However, since I need to add several elements of different sizes in different positions, I end up spending more time in designing the layout than the coding.
I tried using a WYSIWYG editor but it uses px style coding. Can someone help me with a solution so that I can design the layout quickly and proceed to real part? I use WordPad right now.
The best thing to do is practice more. Get better at coding them, and reuse parts from prior projects where it makes sense.
There is no WYSIWYG tool that will save you time, for most projects. They all write garbage code, because editing with such a tool is a bit ambiguous. It is up to you as a web developer to write your markup and styles in a way that will be interpreted correctly across many user agents.
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I am thinking on adding some elements from twitter bootstrap to my current web application. This would help me to be more effective in some parts of the web development process. I do consider my self good at css and I have always built my sites from the ground up.
Is it viable to use some parts of twitter bootstrap, like the grid system? And then use my own custom classes for styling etc? Or should you go all out and use every aspect of bootstrap, and customize the bootstrap classes?
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James
In case, you want to have bare minimal code that's necessary for your styling and you are comfortable in extending/ re-integrating as and when need arises in future then can use those particular bootstrap parts which you want and can style them as you want and can leave the unwanted bootstrap features..
But if you don't mind some extra code, that may add to your page load time, then you can go for the whole of the bootstrap.
In either of the cases, it would be better to leave the core bootstrap code unaltered and write your own code for added/modified functionality. This will give you the option of using the bootstrap styling in case if need arises in future and also you can straight-away update bootstrap files when updated versions arrive..