Free Bootstrap Themes

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Post by aram » Thu, Jan 02, 2014, 8:27 PM UTC

Free Bootstrap Themes
blacktie.co

Re: Free Bootstrap Themes

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Post by lindig » Thu, Jan 02, 2014, 8:57 PM UTC

"Education: Web Designer | Greenville University. Business Master | Loyal Univesrity." <--

Re: Free Bootstrap Themes

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Post by thehodge » Thu, Jan 02, 2014, 9:09 PM UTC

Some of these are really great although I always chuckle at the idea of web design agencies using free themes for there own website.

Re: Free Bootstrap Themes

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Post by jongold » Thu, Jan 02, 2014, 9:10 PM UTC

"Munter" means something that presumably you don't think it means.

Re: Free Bootstrap Themes

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Post by joeblau » Thu, Jan 02, 2014, 9:12 PM UTC

jongold wrote: post #4

"Munter" means something that presumably you don't think it means.

LOL, I just looked it up, then went back to the page and now I can't stop laughing.

Re: Free Bootstrap Themes

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Post by extrapolate » Thu, Jan 02, 2014, 9:15 PM UTC

Why have a checkbox[1], if we can't toggle it.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/WbCJQsk.png

Re: Free Bootstrap Themes

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Post by eggbrain » Thu, Jan 02, 2014, 9:15 PM UTC

First thing I check when I read "Free" is I see what the license is (MIT/BSD). Unfortunately, you can't find out what license the theme uses until you get the actual theme. You don't get the actual theme until you put your email address in. I couldn't submit my email address until I subscribed to the newsletter (but upon trying it again in incognito I wasn't prompted to subscribe -- might have been an error on my part, although the checkbox seems borked).

I went ahead and took the plunge with a Mailinator address to see what I could find out, and it looks like there isn't any license to the themes at all. I'm not sure if this is good or bad -- if code has no license, is it a free for all?

Second thing I check is whether the free theme inserts links in the code to their own website (visible or invisible). From what I see, that is not the case with the theme I downloaded.

Looks like some great resources guys, but a little more information would be invaluable. Can't wait to try some of these out for some quick sites though :)

Re: Free Bootstrap Themes

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Post by NewHatMatt » Thu, Jan 02, 2014, 9:21 PM UTC

eggbrain wrote: post #7

First thing I check when I read "Free" is I see what the license is (MIT/BSD). Unfortunately, you can't find out what license the theme uses until you get the actual theme. You don't get the actual theme until you put your email address in. I couldn't submit my email address until I subscribed to the newsletter (but upon trying it again in incognito I wasn't prompted to subscribe -- might have been an error on my par…

I did some poking around, and the license information can be found here: http://www.blacktie.co/about-themes/

It uses the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.

Re: Free Bootstrap Themes

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Post by Phrodo_00 » Thu, Jan 02, 2014, 9:27 PM UTC

I think it's really weird that the example content is about design companies. Shouldn't those design their own homepages?

Re: Free Bootstrap Themes

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Post by rmrfrmrf » Thu, Jan 02, 2014, 9:36 PM UTC

Somewhat tangentially related, but it's been bugging me for a while -- is every brogrammer in America really this ridiculously attractive, or are hackers using model "stunt doubles"? One wouldn't expect GitHub to be full of gorgeous male models who happen to sit in perfect coffee shop lighting while laughing in an almost robotic perfection, but here we are!

(The stock photos on the site made me think of it, haha.)