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Using Twitter Bootstrap with Drupal

Twitter Bootstrap is a responsive front-end framework, built by the folk at Twitter that has become quite popular. 

It contains a grid system, javascript libraries for handling modal alerts, tooltips, etc., and for those who use CSS preprocessors, it comes with built in LESS support. This means it saves a lot of time when it comes to theming as you're building on top of a solid foundation and don't need to spend time adding additional libraries or modules for javascript plugins, etc.

One of my favourite aspects of Twitter Bootstrap is the responsiveness - it works flawlessly out of the box and again makes things quicker and testing time is lowered as the base has already been thoroughly tested.

Bootstrap is even easier to use with Drupal now that there are Bootstrap themes. There's a couple on drupal.org, but this is the one to use. Nat has written a guide on creating a Bootstrap sub-theme, I recommend you follow his guide and create a sub-theme as it's a bad idea to edit the Bootstrap theme or library since you can lose your changes when undertaking updates to your website.

We're now using Bootstrap for most of the websites we build and are very happy with how solid it is and how easy and fast it is to use.

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