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I am just fine with the look and feel of bootstrap. Visual tools are great for prototyping and for dealing with fiddly bits like layouts.

Why would I want to be constrained to plain HTML when there are pre-made toolkits out there that do it for me? I don't want to figure out how to do rounded corners in CSS, but I would like to have a GUI that shows me how it looks on a page.

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It sounds like you'd be better off with a Bootstrap-based visual site builder. I can recommend Bootstrap Studio. The visual nature of it helped me work with flexbox much better than online tutorials did. It exports nicely structured HTML that can be edited and modified outside of BSS easily.

It's a paid tool, but there's no vendor lock-in. Buy once and it's yours forever.

... you know rounded corners are built in to CSS right? There's no arcane knowledge there. Bit of an odd example

Reminds me of the old "sliding doors" technique. You young guns have no idea how good you have it with your fandangled "border-radius". We had to work hard for our rounded corners back in the day.

https://alistapart.com/article/slidingdoors/

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