> If you are good at design, you wouldn't need to start from Bootstrap.
I completely disagree with this statement. Bootstrap has nothing to do with design - it's all about structure.
The responsive grid layout is great. With some good planning, you can get desktop and mobile optimized versions of your site with much less effort than a custom framework. As a bonus, you also get a great deal of Javascript UI elements for free. And the fact that all of these elements are unified and tested across browsers is a huge time-saver, too.
If you do know what you are doing design-wise, the LESS stylesheets are well-structured. You can do something as simple as changing the base color of your links to diving in to completely customize the look of your app.
As for Flatstrap, it's great to see an alternative base design to the Bootstrap framework.
I agree completely that Bootstrap can be a timesaver. For designers and non-designers alike.
The point I tried to make was that, if you depend for design on Bootstrap UI, if you need it to produce nice looking pages, then just flattening everything may cause problems: You would have removed unified and user-tested elements of design.
I completely disagree with this statement. Bootstrap has nothing to do with design - it's all about structure.
The responsive grid layout is great. With some good planning, you can get desktop and mobile optimized versions of your site with much less effort than a custom framework. As a bonus, you also get a great deal of Javascript UI elements for free. And the fact that all of these elements are unified and tested across browsers is a huge time-saver, too.
If you do know what you are doing design-wise, the LESS stylesheets are well-structured. You can do something as simple as changing the base color of your links to diving in to completely customize the look of your app.
As for Flatstrap, it's great to see an alternative base design to the Bootstrap framework.