Twitter Bootstrap Theme

422

So just had 10 minutes to spare, and downloaded bootstrap..

Hmm.. its pretty cool huh ! In fact I may begin converting a current dev site and use bootstrap.. will start playing.

Gillingham

Are you taking advantage of less variables and stuff so that you can easily theme the excitingly named vanilla elements using other existing bootstrap elements with a line or two instead of bulk duplicating CSS.

mcu_hq

You should try this, LESSCSS

422

Bootstrap comes with less

mcu_hq

Oh, why not just use LESSCSS by itself?

Caio

@kesperisager, I have a question, why use bootstrap? Why not make a theme yourself?

brizzly

Awesome! Looking forward to this one, Twitter Bootstrap on VF, @kesperisager. It seems to be a decent one.

IMO, Twitter Bootstrap is easy to use plus it comes with grid system and importantly, it is well documented. Perfect for your new application (download TB, make some adjustments to the code and implement. Then make it public on WWW). It can also serve as a landing page, then after being replaced by something a premium-template, perhaps. I believe that most web-masters/developers are going for Twitter Bootstrap mainly because they have no time to code / design, have less experience or have a low budget assigned for web-designing purposes. -- TB would be a perfect for them.

Well, in the end of the day, Twitter Bootstrap is much better looking (in terms of design and UI) compared to FBbootstrap, or whatever they call it. Wouldn't you agree. (;

422

I predict a million bootstrap websites appearing soon, all the same all calling 30 js files per page.

Interesting to see te vanilla integration

kasperisager

@Gillingham So far my .less files are pretty messy as I've just written everything as fast as possible. I will however take advantage of LESS variables and clean up the code when the theme has been completed.

@Caio I use Bootstrap because I like the structure of it and the way it looks. It sets some standards as to what a robust interface should look like and it's easy to customize and make your own stuff based on it. @Brizzly also listed a bunch of reasons, each of which I fully agree :) Bootstrap is the new black in web design.

@422 Yeah, Bootstrap does have a lot of js files! I've used the combined minified version of the js though (bootstrap.min.js), so it should limit the number of js files loaded.

On a side note: So far I haven't included less.js in the theme as I've been using SimpLESS for compiling my .less files. If people are interested, I'll implement it though.

422

Its a thumper of a file huh lol.

Caio

@kasperisager Is the theme done yet?

kasperisager

@Caio It's almost done, but as I have a huge chemistry assignment this weekend, it won't be at the top of my list to finish it. I'll see if I can have it finished sometime next week though.

kasperisager

A release, that should be ready for a production site, can now be found here: https://github.com/kasperisager/VanillaBootstrap

I'll add some more documentation in the days to come and keep working on bug fixes. Please report anything you find here: https://github.com/kasperisager/VanillaBootstrap/issues

As I'm having trouble uploading the theme to this site, it will be a little while before it will be available as an addon here. Feel free to fork the file and send me a pull-request if you make some cool changes, that you'd like to share.

422

Good work mate will check it out later

kasperisager

Thanks a bunch, it's much appreciated :)

422

May I download and deploy as a test forum so users may try it out ?

kasperisager

That sounds like a great idea :)

422

Will work on it tomorrow.

422

just doing it now, should be up in a few mins

kasperisager

Awesome!

422

wishing I had gzipped vanilla ( new version 2.0.18.4 on our server lol )

422

Ok getting bonk on launch.

No plugins enabled. V 2.0.18.4

Edited config as per readme.

Edited jquery version ( replaced with latest build )

What now :)

kasperisager

That sounds strange... I'll just give it a go myself

422

k I cant bloody remember the hook to add to report errors lol.

Dashboard is fine , but page bonking when we kick the forum into gear

kasperisager

$Configuration['Garden']['Errors']['MasterView'] = 'deverror.master.php';

kasperisager

Just tested it on a fresh install and for some reason I don't get bonked. Have you located the specific error yet?

422

Not yet ... Good old aussie internet sucks

422

one mo

422

http://vanillaskins.com/bootstrap/

Smarty wasnt writeable

422

Feedback. looks great

Im not a great fan of fluid layouts but looks sweeet as.

Cannot activate the drop down for admin menu on front end tho ( seems you left hash tag on admin menu )