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by yawaworht1978 1739 days ago
I don't think using bootstrap is a good idea if you don't know any css at all, some very easy things might work out, but there will be some issues, there always are. I remember a freelance gig I once had for a saas company, they didn't have a mobile site at all, table designs, html generated server side via some clandestine php "framework"....I had to add * {border:1px solid redl} To even see what was happening, even the desktop view had max width 1200px I think. The whole CSS had to be done from scratch, so many server generated pages after submitting a post request had no or hard to trace CSS rules, often in the HTML. My point is, all this could have been prevented if proper css would have been used from the beginning. In the owners defense, the page was made around the release of the css2 standard. Just learn the basics, css today is not as bad as it used to be, now that browsers are somewhat compatible and and responsive design is simplified with things like flexbox, it's not that hard , especially for a MVP. Frameworks are ok, until something apparently unpredictable happens or breaks, just like many things didn't work as intended when people with no JS knowledge jumped right on jQuery.