[Dirlewanger]

Holy shit, a relatively small municipality whose website doesn't look like complete ass! Elected officials know what they're doing in Somerville.

[aroch]

Bootstrap. It helps any site go from looking like crap to passable.

[shangxiao]

Or look like it came out of the same cookie-cutter

[Dirlewanger]

For typically slow-moving small town/city officials, anything that doesn't look like a 90s relic that probably has no Javascript at all, Bootstrap is a massive improvement.

[mikestew]

Do you mean to say a look-and-feel consistent with other sites I may have visited rather than some special snowflake whiz bang mystery meat UI that some "designer" cooked up? Yeah, the people of Somerville are really missing out.

[robertfw]

we see the cookie cutter - the vast majority of people will have zero idea what bootstrap is or notice the similarities. we also are exposed to many more sites using bootstrap than the average user as it is so heavily used in tech circles.

[aroch]

Would you rather sites look like crap and have bad functionality, or look the same and have good functionality and UX?

[Blahah]

that's much better than 'hand crafted in MS Word' or 'broken Wordpress'

[toomuchtodo]

Or Frontpage.

[ceejayoz]

Which is better than looking shitty.