About

Kickstart began as "Kickstrap", a tool to extend Bootstrap. The goal was to create a layer where users could write their own customizations and add community extensions. This layer would be separate from the Bootstrap core allowing Bootstrap itself to stay up to date without affecting the project's customizations.

In the third version of Kickstrap, Bootstrap has been removed entirely, hence the renaming as "Kickstart". Kickstart 3 is now its own CSS framework.

Why another CSS framework?

With the previous two versions of Kickstrap, I became very familiar with the intricacies of CSS and frameworks like Bootstrap, Foundation, and Bourbon. I noticed the following:

• Frameworks are huge and slow
• Difficult to extend
• Have only one or a few themes. Who wants a framework that makes your site look like everyone else's?

Extensibility is a #1, unfulfilled need in the world of frameworks. Kickstart is solving this with its own native solution, the Kickstart Store.