Bootstraping with style

Just over a week ago twitter released v2.0 of Bootstrap.

Bootstrap is, for those of you who don't already know, a framework for all skill levels to help setup websites easier, better and faster.

After looking though the examples I wanted to try it out so I've restyled my website with Bootstrap.

There are a number of really nice things that you get out of the box with Bootstrap that I believe make it very easy to get a basic site up and running in no time.

The main ones that I used were:

• Grid system - used to layout the page
• Nav, tabs, and pills - used to generate the Tags page
• Navbar - self explanatory
• Alerts - used to display information about posts

Of all of the features in Bootstrap I feel that the Grid system provides the most value as it allows you to easily develop a responsive design.

What do you think is the best feature of Bootstrap?

Switched blog to jekyll

This weekend I've spent some time migrating my blog from Blogger to a github hosted jekyll site.

The reason for this was that there were a number of things that blogger was lacking such as syntax highlighting and the flexibility to play around with the back end.

Even though not being able to modify back end code was one of the positives for using Blogger in the first place, I wanted to switch the blog from a subdomain to a top level domain and didn't want to be restricted in the content that I could generate.