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WordPress themes are not just for sales sites. The "Admin Templates" on Theme Forest [1] offer some great options for B2B applications. [1] http://themeforest.

WordPress themes are not just for sales sites. The "Admin Templates" on Theme Forest [1] offer some great options for B2B applications. [1] http://themeforest.net/category/site-templates/admin-templates http://themeforest.net/category/site-templates/admin-templat...

tptacek 16y ago
The "Admin" templates on Theme Forest are really kind of blowing my mind right now. Every front-end-challenged web app developer on HN should know about this. Preemptively: so what if every app that uses these look the same? They'll all look similarly competent. Most native apps look more alike than different, too. This is crazy awesome. Thanks for showing this to me. PS: if you read the comments on the Adminaca theme --- which is LUDICROUSLY AMAZING --- you will find a guy complaining that the price got jacked up... from $12 to $20. If ever you needed a parable exhorting you not to design products for the kinds of people who use ThemeForest...
- patio11 16y ago
  I use these for the guts of AR, too. $15, shaved a month off my schedule, and since it came in eight colors I got one feature bullet for free.
edanm 16y ago
WOW! If anyone hasn't seen these, seriously, check them out. I've used Theme Forest themes before for sales sites, but never found great themes for a web app. These are definitely going to the top of my list for the next time I need to build something.
flipacoin 16y ago
thanks for this. I think I just saved myself several thousand dollars. Some of those themes are as good as anything on dribbble or sortfolio. Looks like off-the-shelf + customisation is the way to go. Thanks everyone!
geekfactor 16y ago
I posted a stand-alone follow-up post to this comment: Read: http://geekfactor.charrington.com/2011/03/use-admin-templates-for-great-looking-web-application-mvps http://geekfactor.charrington.com/2011/03/use-admin-template... Discuss: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2347559 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2347559

tptacek 16y ago

The "Admin" templates on Theme Forest are really kind of blowing my mind right now. Every front-end-challenged web app developer on HN should know about this. Preemptively: so what if every app that uses these look the same? They'll all look similarly competent. Most native apps look more alike than different, too. This is crazy awesome. Thanks for showing this to me. PS: if you read the comments on the Adminaca theme --- which is LUDICROUSLY AMAZING --- you will find a guy complaining that the price got jacked up... from $12 to $20. If ever you needed a parable exhorting you not to design products for the kinds of people who use ThemeForest...

patio11 16y ago
I use these for the guts of AR, too. $15, shaved a month off my schedule, and since it came in eight colors I got one feature bullet for free.

edanm 16y ago

WOW! If anyone hasn't seen these, seriously, check them out. I've used Theme Forest themes before for sales sites, but never found great themes for a web app. These are definitely going to the top of my list for the next time I need to build something.

flipacoin 16y ago

thanks for this. I think I just saved myself several thousand dollars. Some of those themes are as good as anything on dribbble or sortfolio. Looks like off-the-shelf + customisation is the way to go. Thanks everyone!

geekfactor 16y ago

I posted a stand-alone follow-up post to this comment: Read: http://geekfactor.charrington.com/2011/03/use-admin-templates-for-great-looking-web-application-mvps http://geekfactor.charrington.com/2011/03/use-admin-template... Discuss: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2347559 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2347559