Is it worth using Twitter Bootstrap for a fully customised responsive design

Question

I am about to build a website using Asp.Net MVC.

I am trying to decide on which responsive framework to use and have been looking at several but am fundamentally stuck choosing between very simple (eg. Responsive Grid System) and fully featured (eg. Bootstrap).

The issue is that as far as html, css and javascript goes I pretty much know what I am doing so will use various js plugins if I need them to achieve any desired functionality.

We will not be using the standard button styles that Twitter provides and would probably need to customise many aspects of the Twitter widgets and features - so is there still any advantage to using a more fully featured framework?

Answer 1

Hate to plug my own work (that's a lie) but my framework Jeet is perfect for this. Seems like you just need a solid responsive grid system so if you're not afraid of Stylus I invite you to fork this CodePen and toy around with it.

If it's not your cup of tea or you're more comfortable with other preprocessors (SCSS particularly) then I'd suggest Bourbon's Neat for a simple grid, or Singularity.gs for a really powerful grid.

Either way I'd suggest against "padding-based" grids like Bootstrap 3 and Foundation 4 as they essentially force you to create/nest extra elements inside of every element just for transparent gutters (something very common). It turns into way too much bloat.