[mixmastamyk]

> Yes, default Bootstrap skin looks boring and unprofessional,

Sigh... bootstrap didn't get where it is by looking unprofessional.

I also don't understand wanting every admin interface one comes across to be a special snowflake, the opposite of what should be the case. We've known for at least 30 years (Apple HIG) that a standardized look and feel is a benefit to users, not a detriment. Not to mention dev maintainability.

I suppose billable hours decrease when reinventing the wheel is no longer necessary.

[joecarpenter]

Uh, that's typical rhetoric about default Bootstrap interface. Like if someone used default bootstrap skin then he's just lazy and didn't really care. Thus unprofessional.

Personally, I think that Bootstrap interface is good enough, but its widespread adoption lead to the perception I mentioned above.

[mixmastamyk]

I understand, and that's why I'm a bit annoyed, it's a very developer-centric attitude propagated by the sentence above.

Personally, an end-user has never asked me to make their software/web-admin look unique. A portfolio site? Sure, but an admin page? Not other than their official color/logo in the header.

Uniqueness is just not a concern with "normal" people, and with good reason as I mentioned above. Still, congrats on the nice work on the site/post.

[jbkkd]

The fact that Bootstrap is widespread, and therefore perceived by some unprofessional, does not make a user using it unprofessional, nor does it make the framework unprofessional.

Are Django or Flask unprofessional since they are widespread?

[joecarpenter]

Unfortunately, you can't compare development frameworks to UI frameworks. No one knows that you're a dog on the Internet. But anyone without technical knowledge can see a site that's built with the default Bootstrap skin and say - hey, I saw it before.

Bootstrap is good and clean framework, it is _great_ for developers. But just because it is so widespread and highly visible, there's some of prejudice around it.

Nonetheless, I'm using Bootstrap in my projects and happy with it.

[91bananas]

I think this prejudice only exists within this community where if you aren't that special snowflake you're not cool. I'd guess 99% of web traffic has no clue what Bootstrap is, what it looks like by default, how it is different when it is skinned. I would guess more than anything that they just think, this is what a website looks like now-a-days.

I'm happy to use it too with very minimal tweaking because it looks good out of the box, way more pleasant than browser defaults, it works well, fairly well maintained.

[robertfw]

While that is true I think that most users will be oblivious to the commonalities - as developers we are not only familiar with bootstrap but also with the myriad developer-built sites that are more likely to use it