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by edbloom 4664 days ago
I can't understand some of the comments here saying this is too expensive. Seriously folks, William has put together a great into to Bootstrap for a less than the price of a billable hour and it's too expensive? Sure all the information is out there - if you want to spend a few more billable hours finding it - plus a someone who is just now getting up to speed on Bootstrap - most of the tuts out there are for Bootstrap 2. I think the timing is right. The sample chapter is great. Williams product will hopefully save me many multiples of the purchase price by not wasting time seeking the right information and that is a point lots of people seem to be missing.
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Exactly. The complaints are wildly off-base; it doesn't matter whether it costs more or less than a college chemistry textbook; it matters whether or not it will save you more than $60 worth of time.

I mostly write native apps, but happen to have started to make a website for the first time in several years the other day. Having decided to start with Bootstrap, I spent at least an hour chasing down blog posts about using Bootstrap, and then googling to see how things had changed since v2, how people do X and Y, finding conflicting opinions of unknown provenance, etc etc... and was expecting to have to do more of that to finish getting up to speed with Bootstrap (especially since I'm starting with v3 and most of the info on the inter web tubes pertains to v2).

So of course I bought this book. In order to be a worthwhile investment, all it has to do is save me from the hassle having to do that again, one single time. Perusing the site it really looks like it will. Sold!