The Google’s Mobile Armageddon of 21st April 2015 prompted me to switch to a free ‘Bootstrap’ template in early April. While it was a beauty, it was not optimized for speed. Apart from other minor irritants, it was a Bootstrap 2.3.2 template, whereas Bootstrap has been upgraded to version 3.3.5. It was time to adopt the really awesome ‘Font Awesome’ too instead of images.
Instead of hunting around for a free theme, and then trying to tweak it, I decided to build a Bootstrap 3.3.5 Template from scratch. After a week of slaving over the Bootstrap documentation, online tutorials, lots of head scratching, and burning eyes, somehow caught up with a vague idea of Bootstrap and Blogger hacks.
Last 2 days with a nagging headache, and one almost broken mouse – why don’t they make a mouse which doubles up as a Stress Ball – the clean, green, Oops, it is actually blue, and a snappy theme is here.
Over the next few days, I would tweak the theme a little more, to squeeze out a few more milliseconds. It should also be worth a few blog posts, with two purposes.
So, what do you think?
Instead of hunting around for a free theme, and then trying to tweak it, I decided to build a Bootstrap 3.3.5 Template from scratch. After a week of slaving over the Bootstrap documentation, online tutorials, lots of head scratching, and burning eyes, somehow caught up with a vague idea of Bootstrap and Blogger hacks.
Last 2 days with a nagging headache, and one almost broken mouse – why don’t they make a mouse which doubles up as a Stress Ball – the clean, green, Oops, it is actually blue, and a snappy theme is here.
Over the next few days, I would tweak the theme a little more, to squeeze out a few more milliseconds. It should also be worth a few blog posts, with two purposes.
- to be a tutorial for anyone who wants to tweak their Blogger Bootstrap Template; and,
- a reference for myself, in case I forget my own tweaks in future.
So, what do you think?
Looks great. A job well done.
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