kpmi wrote:
But I have to agree with osgood that this is NOT an intuitive way to create websites. I have been using Dreamweaver since 1999, coding HTML and CSS, and this makes no sense to me.
Personally I think you'd be wiser investing your time getting to know the Bootstrap grid, in your sleep, it's by far and away the most useful aspect of the framework and it is not that bad, even I could live with that if needs be - thankfully I don't have to though.
What I detest most are the components - the nav, the carousel, the modal window etc - all are poorly coded and use obtuse css and bloated html which makes it problematical to re-style or re-position, even the most effiecient at coding will struggle as I have witnessed by viewing literally dozen of youtube videos about Bootstrap.
For me the best workflow would be use the grid and then feed in your own html and css - that way you know exactly what does what and where to solve issues while the grid works 'silently' in the background. Of course you need to know some basic coding to do that.
What you will find if you look at a lot of 'Bootstrap' sites is they are just using the grid, everything else is bespoke coding.
Of course what we are seeing is something being used to design wesbsites which was never its intention in the first place, much the same as Wordpress began life as a blogging tool then suddenly took over the world - it doesn't make it agood tool - just popular with those that know very little coding.
Anyway I have left you in no doubt which camp I'm in.
Whatever go with your gut instinct BUT you must know exactly what the tools do that you are using.