Customize Twitter Bootstrap To Not Look Bootstrap-y

Re:Customize Twitter Bootstrap To Not Look Bootstrap-y by nicholassmith on Friday August 24, 2012 @11:47AM (#4428120)

If the page has made no impression, doesn't that speak more about the content than the presentation? I agree on the visual aspects of being able to determine a page, but Bootstrap just provides a clean way to display some content, I'm alright with that.

And no, Bootstraps page doesn't look like a default template, but they don't say 'you must customise it', it's left up to the developer/designer/implementor.

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Re:Customize Twitter Bootstrap To Not Look Bootstrap-y by Swizec on Friday August 24, 2012 @11:56AM (#4428152)

I think that was OP's point though. Bootstrap is a framework, so please use it as a framework, not as a finished solution.

And I don't think lasting impressions are determined that much by content. I recognize pages by a sort of screenshot in my mind, it's a bit like recognizing faces. Happens too quickly for the content to come into play.

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Re:Customize Twitter Bootstrap To Not Look Bootstrap-y by nicholassmith on Friday August 24, 2012 @12:22PM (#4428249)

It's a finished solution and a framework, it can be picked on what you need from it. Not being trying obtuse, I just see a lot of criticism levelled at Bootstrap for creating similar looking pages, but for most of those pages they're primarily focussed around displaying content in a nice way (documentation for example).

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