Goodbye Yahoo, Hello Bootstrap and Backbone.

http://company.unscatter.com/post/20786522334/goodbye-yahoo-hello-bootstrap-and-backbone

by jrussbowman • 14 years ago

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tzaman2• 14 years ago

It seems everyone is saying hello to bootstrap. Too bad very few build anything memorable upon it.

untog• 14 years ago

That just reflects it's status as the de-facto starting point. You could equally state that it's too bad that very few build anything memorable with HTML.

tzaman2• 14 years ago

Well yes, a starting point - but not also the ending point at the same time.

And by memorable I meant based on bootstrap but with own "personality", not bootstrap's.

andye3• 14 years ago

My site is pretty cool though:

http://in.5thvillage.com/ http://www.5thvillage.com/

andye3• 14 years ago

I am using bootstrap, it is good for a developer like me who doesn't know design very well....

rometest• 14 years ago

looks cool. but there is no way to give feedback or contact.

ruethewhirled• 14 years ago

Don't bother clicking on the above site, is some kinda spam link

bitboxer• 14 years ago

Sorry, but your site has serious problems. Just adding Bootstrap without any knowledge of at least some basic designs does you no good.

For example:

* The text is wider than the screen and the scrolling destroys the readability of the text. Even when it would fit the screen, it makes a terrible reading experience

* Apply paddings to the left and right edge of the screen. If the text touches the browser window, it looks ugly and removes focus and call to action on it.

As a final advice: get yourself a copy of Design for Hackers ( http://bitboxer.de/2012/02/05/design-for-hackers-reverse-eng... )

jrussbowman3• 14 years ago

Thank you for the advice and the link.

If you don't mind can you tell me what browser you viewed the page and resolution? I don't have the problem of the text being larger than the screen but I also tend to use high resolution screens and my browser width is usually greater than 1000 pixels.

I also admittedly haven't been keeping up with internet explorer or opera testing. Actually, I don't even have a windows desktop available to me at the moment.

kadavy• 14 years ago

Hey, thanks for recommending Design for Hackers! (I'm the author)

riffraff• 14 years ago

fwiw, on my laptop screen the search box for this blog is straight below the tumblr buttons, you may want to fix that http://imgur.com/8i4uG

jrussbowman3• 14 years ago

Thank you for the feedback. I think I'll also have to see about making it easier for people to get feedback to me as well. Guess I'm going from personal hobby to trying to at least support users best I can.

atarian• 14 years ago

Perhaps you should stop using Apple products as well since Apple is quite heavy on patent litigation.

ojr• 14 years ago

http://twitter.com is a nice example of bootstrap of course ;)

Goodbye Yahoo, Hello Bootstrap and Backbone.

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