Bootstrap Templates & Decisions

I spoke to Calogero about coding the website from scratch instead of using WordPress via phone call. He was supportive of this idea as he liked the way the bootstrap templates looked compared to the look of the WordPress themes that he had seen previously. Therefore we decided to look at a number of Bootstrap templates and narrowed this search down to two templates.

The main theme Calogero liked was the Directory & Listing theme.
Although this theme looked good visually, it was designed more for a restaurant, café and/or shop rather than a generic business website which wouldn't have been suitable for Ramsay Safety Solutions. I explained that I could edit the content so that it is more suited to Health & Safety however the amount of changes that were needed meant that it would be more appropriate to choose a different theme.


(Own Screenshot taken from Bootstrap Themes, 2019)

Therefore we looked through more themes and found the Business & Corporate theme which is definately more suitable for Ramsay Safety Solutions' website rework and Calogero also liked the layout of this theme and the different components that came with the theme.


(Own Screenshot taken from Boostrap Themes, 2018)

Therefore we purchased this theme so that I could start experimenting with the coding.

Bibliography & References
BOOTSTRAP THEMES (2018). Boomerang – Bootstrap 4 Business & Corporate Theme. [Online] Available at: https://themes.getbootstrap.com/product/boomerang-bootstrap-4-business-corporate-theme/ [Accessed: 4 March 2019]

BOOTSTRAP THEMES (2019). Directory – Directory & Listing Bootstrap 4 Theme. [Online] Available at: https://themes.getbootstrap.com/product/directory-directory-listing-bootstrap-4-theme/ [Accessed: 4 March 2019]

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