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Bootstrap is the most popular open source CSS framework today. Millions of web sites and applications use it to provide a superior mobile and web experience to their users. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware is a web content management system that has thousands of built-in features and is likely the most comprehensive integrated system that exists today. In the past, the CSS that has been used in Tiki was too voluminous, difficult to manage, and lacked consistency across the different features. Recently, Tiki switched to the Bootstrap framework, resulting in uncompiled LESS amounting to under 10% of the original CSS, making it phenomenally easier to manage and customize. The quality of the user experience is also instantly improved. Designers spend a fraction of they time they used to when customizing themes, empowered to develop more visually impressive and highly usable themes. In this talk, I will show how to implement Bootstrap and share lessons learnt from the experience of Tiki.