I\'m interning at a new startup, and I\'ve been tasked with designing the front-

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I'm interning at a new startup, and I've been tasked with designing the front-end of the site. I really, really want to use the new Twitter Bootstrap (http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/). It's all CSS, looks amazing, works great, and lets me get to designing and not worrying about the little stuff.

However, is this a good idea if it's a demo of a webapp that we're building that could become production code? Will it look silly and amateur if I use this instead of coding it all myself? Is the bootstrap too Twitter-ish for a real company's brand?

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looks amazing, works great, and lets me get to designing and not worrying about the little stuff.

I think you answered your own question there. There's a variety of mature CSS frameworks and Javascript UI libraries out there, but Bootstrap has two very nice advantages:

It's supported by Twitter, which means that it will probably be around for a very long time, it will probably be very consistent across browsers, and it will probably grow nicely.
It combines basic CSS framework stuff with basic Javascript UI stuff. Although using let's say Blueprint with jQuery UI is an extremely simple task, it's always nice if all your front end needs are covered by one framework (same naming conventions, less chances you need to hack something to get css with js to play nicely)
And as for:

Will it look silly and amateur if I use this instead of coding it all myself?

There's nothing more silly and amateurish than reinventing the wheel. So, by all means, go for it.

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