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Do you ask the designer to create the basic styles / example markup as well? General things like buttons, alerts, perhaps some generic layouts. Or just take the template they provide and have your in house devs hash that out?

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I'm our only dev :-) I did all of that myself, and modify the guide moving forward as things change.

We just need a good push in the right direction as our visual design skills are seriously lacking.

Haha, sounds like me. Using bootstrap and playing around with the styles, I can get the project 80% of the way there visually. I never feel satisfied with my designs though... having a style guide to follow would probably be able to bump me past that.

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