Rapid Prototyping Frameworks

[ScarletRiot]

A question to all the web developers out there: do you use any rapid prototyping front-end frameworks? What are your thoughts on them?

The Dungeon Toronto site is a custom WP theme I built in Bootstrap because responsiveness is important and that's what I had on hand at the time, but I've been enjoying kube and Skeleton as well for simpler work, since their grid alignment is spot on. Any other suggestions? I'm especially interested in frameworks that make it easy to quickly brand input/form elements, and have grid-based alignment down to a science. LESS or CSS are fine.

For the naysayers, I build many websites straight from scratch, if the client is willing to pay the appropriate rate. I look to rapid prototyping because many of my non-profit, healthcare and sex work clients can't afford $4k+ for a website.

 

[Anynym]

I, personally, have not used any so-called Rapid Prototyping frameworks. While I'm sure they have their place, my experience is that they leave a bigger mess behind than was started with.

If a site is simple, building from scratch isn't a concern.

If a site is more complex, I've come to appreciate SilverStripe as a CMS (the default template it ships with is grid-based). Its form handling leaves much to be desired, but I find it more targeted at actual web site management than WordPress (blog manager turned web manager) or Joomla! (overbearing).