A Q for the devs of the bootstrap theme (or anyone else) -
When you built this awesome framework (I had been dreading the task of building something like this) did you happen to do so using the LESS/SASS for compiling? Generally, it's easier to keep track of screen based styles and manage stylesheets with a pre-processor. I'm not sure how difficult it would be to reverse engineer an SCSS or LESS setup with the seperated media queries, but I know that if you guys compiled the css from LESS or SASS that if you shared that stuff it would be invaluable.
If you intend for people to really take this framework and develop good, awesome e-commerce sites with it, it will be instrumental.
At first it seems like just another step to the process, but once you've seen the math power of LESS or Compass, and how it can help you not only to organize your responsive site configuration but to handle complex calculations or store color/size/shape/rulesets, and to even generate sprites from a directory of images, making your site in general just a heck of a lot more efficient.
I can't rave enough about how as a front end coder my life has been improved by adopting SASS/Compass.
I'd be willing to work with LESS if it were included too, because it's just that much better than using straight CSS.
It's powerful stuff that's built in with Bootstrap, so I was hoping that you used it to build this framework and might be willing to share those files. They will make a world of difference and save so much time in the future.
The chaos of media queries alone makes me cry without them. You did an excellent job documenting the styles, but there's really no reason to load multiple stylesheets when one minified sheet will rule them all and in the compass bind them.
Mike
When you built this awesome framework (I had been dreading the task of building something like this) did you happen to do so using the LESS/SASS for compiling? Generally, it's easier to keep track of screen based styles and manage stylesheets with a pre-processor. I'm not sure how difficult it would be to reverse engineer an SCSS or LESS setup with the seperated media queries, but I know that if you guys compiled the css from LESS or SASS that if you shared that stuff it would be invaluable.
If you intend for people to really take this framework and develop good, awesome e-commerce sites with it, it will be instrumental.
At first it seems like just another step to the process, but once you've seen the math power of LESS or Compass, and how it can help you not only to organize your responsive site configuration but to handle complex calculations or store color/size/shape/rulesets, and to even generate sprites from a directory of images, making your site in general just a heck of a lot more efficient.
I can't rave enough about how as a front end coder my life has been improved by adopting SASS/Compass.
I'd be willing to work with LESS if it were included too, because it's just that much better than using straight CSS.
It's powerful stuff that's built in with Bootstrap, so I was hoping that you used it to build this framework and might be willing to share those files. They will make a world of difference and save so much time in the future.
The chaos of media queries alone makes me cry without them. You did an excellent job documenting the styles, but there's really no reason to load multiple stylesheets when one minified sheet will rule them all and in the compass bind them.
Mike
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