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Mayur Pande
Courses Plus Student 11,711 Pointsmedia queries or twitter bootstrap?
Is it better practice to use media queries over twitter bootstrap for responsive layouts? As I find that twitter bootstrap is quite dynamic and multiple websites can end up looking the same.
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Christopher Bolivar
10,879 PointsBest to practice creating your own website from scratch whenever possible, but also depends on the project. If your still learning HTML/CSS/JS its best to practice, practice, practice. Once you feel comfortable with the languages and you have a really big project then a framework like Twitter's bootstrap may be a good option.
I recommend you take the course "Framework Basics" with Guild Hernandez. In that course you will learn Twitters Bootstrap and Zerb's Foundations also goes into detail when its best to use a framework and when its not.
Hope this helps!
Dustin McCaffree
14,310 PointsOverall, I agree with Christopher.
One of the most important things while learning front end development in this modern age is to learn how to optimize in a "mobile first" way. That means learn tricks like "max-width," using em's instead of just px's, etc... Then when you get to media queries, your work is simplified and you may only need two different media queries to get your site optimized in any browser width.
Once you get going, it's not that hard. Keep on learning and asking questions! :)