Is it possible to use Twitter Bootstrap to create a Magento site?

Question

A client wants a Magento site done, and I have never used it before. I thought, "Sure, I'll create a standard site using Bootstrap and just query the database for the products". Now that I've been looking into it, it looks like the only way to use Magento is by creating a Theme which doesn't look to be Bootstrap friendly.

Please someone tell me that creating Themes isn't the only legitimate way of creating a Magento site.

Solution 1

Some starting points:

http://www.bootstrapstart.com/portfolio-type/bootstrap-magento-theme/

http://magenthon.com (info and code) or demo here

https://github.com/cvaldemar/magento-bootstrap (doesn't seem too active though ?)

If this is something you are planning on doing yourself, the second link looks like a promising candidate to download, reverse engineer then cusomise!

Good luck

Solution 2

https://github.com/webcomm/magento-boilerplate

http://www.webcomm.com.au/blog/2013/09/introducing-magento-boilerplate-a-twitter-bootstrap-3-powered-html5-mobile-first-starter-theme

Newest, Magento 1.8 supported