Comment by delinka | Hacker News Reader

Comment by delinka | Hacker News Reader

I can get behind the headline. However, the implementation is seriously lacking. I'm not a designer. I can't find anyone who can explain to me the hows and whys of CSS without expecting me to already know CSS. So I just copy CSS that I like.

I've implemented Bootstrap on a new site. I see your colorschemedesigner.com link. Now, how do I get these colors from it into Bootstrap? Oh, the Bootstrap customize page. Which colors from Color Scheme Designer 3 go in which boxes? If I have to edit CSS, which files do I have to edit and why?

You're a designer and you think this stuff is "easy." Speeding up your database-centric app is easy, too. Use a proper RDBMS and correctly normalize your data. What? You don't understand? Yeah, that's how I feel when designers expect me to "fix" my Bootstrap-clone website.

Edited to add: On Color Scheme Designer, I find a set of colors I think looks nice and then look at the light and dark page examples ... and they look like ass. I have no patience to sit and find something that looks nice here and drop it in Bootstrap there and discover that it looks terrible. A lovely 'download Bootstrap CSS' link on this site would save tons of time.

"On Color Scheme Designer, I find a set of colors I think looks nice and then look at the light and dark page examples ... and they look like ass. I have no patience to sit and find something that looks nice here and drop it in Bootstrap there and discover that it looks terrible."

I'd say trial and error with this is actually a great way to learn some basic color theory and develop your intuition about what looks good on a page. This is a good skill to hone and is really what the most important part of being a designer is. Once you put the time in to really study color and what looks good, implementing it will get faster every time you go.

> If I have to edit CSS, which files do I have to edit and why?

Seems to be the wrong approach. Framework code shall never be changed. The challenge is to design e.g. your own button that is based on the Bootstrap button. This approach is upward-compatible.

Assuming this is indeed the case, I'm surprised this isn't a big attention-getter on the bootstrap site. I also have no idea how I'd go about 'extending' the bootstrap button into something for me.

> I also have no idea how I'd go about 'extending' the bootstrap button into something for me.

You extend it by using what CSS offers.

Okay, okay, okay, i got it. Use boot theme. Press a die a bunch of times, wait until you find a color combo that doesn't look like ASS. Download. Saved you half the steps.

The bootstrap customization page sucks. i don't really use it myself.

Codecademy.com has effective lessons on CSS. You may find it very useful.

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