With the implementation of Bootstrap into Joomla with Joomla 3.0 we implemented changes in the back end of the site to handle the Isis template. At the same time retaining the former CSS for the alternative Hathor template. There was however only rudimentary changes made to the front end which mainly revolved around the button displays which used the Bootstrap styling.

The rationale was that it was virtually impossible to know what template any given site was using, there being a number of different template frameworks available, any (and probably most) of which were being used somewhere. For that reason it was often necessary for a site to create a template override and for them to modify the overridden files as required to create their required display.

We ourselves have looked at Bootstrap and decided that it is the direction to move and for that reason we are developing template overrides suitable for a Bootstrap front end template. The current release of Bootstrap as of 26th April 2014 is release 3.1.1 and it seemed sensible to therefore use this version for the development of our overrides. The main focus of Bootstrap v3 was 'mobile' focused and mainly involved changes to the CSS classes,so it would be possible to back port versions for Bootstrap v2 if required.