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Dresssed: Beautiful Themes built on bootstrap for your Rails App

76 points by mgrouchy 14y ago

impostervt 14y ago
Love the idea. Small issue - when I mouse over the Buy Now button, the popup/hover box shows up for about a second, then disappears.
- macournoyer 14y ago
  Creator of the project here. Thx :) What browser are you on?
  - jpsirois 14y ago
    I’m having this issues too with the current Google Chrome Stable 19.0.1084.56
    - macournoyer 14y ago
      Should be fixed now, thx!
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nicholassmith 14y ago
I'm honestly surprised we've not seen more of these. Bootstrap is great, it's a good set of nice tools to get you going and then a truly creative designer can take it where it needs to go. Look forward to seeing more themes appear!
- sgdesign 14y ago
  I think the reason there aren't more themes is the sheer quantity of work involved in styling all the bootstrap elements.
- monfresh 14y ago
  Here's another one with a similar price point: https://railsthemes.com/ https://railsthemes.com/
tucson 14y ago
I am looking for a way to sell ready-made websites to small businesses. Does anybody know of a solution that would take basic infos (company name, some presentation text) and produce a nicely designed (such as those themes) website ?
- jamesbritt 14y ago
  Webby or nanoc or some other static-site generator tool?
sneak 14y ago
These are not optimized for iPad3 (retina).
drharris 14y ago
Definitely beautiful, but the price point seems a bit strange. It definitely surpasses ThemeForest territory, but it's still built on an existing framework and has that "cookie-cutter" vibe to it. Considering a few hundred more bucks will get you a completely custom Bootstrap theme on oDesk, I wonder about the target demographic for something like this. I think the killer app for this will be a bootstrap theme where a few easy parameters (so easy your grandma can do it!) can dramatically change the look and feel to make something actually feel unique. If that is possible, I can really see this taking off.
- sgdesign 14y ago
  I'd be very curious to see what kind of custom theme you can get for a couple dollars...
  - drharris 14y ago
    For a couple dollars? Probably nothing at all. I've been outsourcing custom bootstrap themes similar to this (perhaps slightly less polished, but completely custom to the product) for around $400-500 for 4-5 different page styles and all elements (tables, forms, jquery widgets). Some are even partially responsive.
    - kristofferR 14y ago
      Where do you find such cheap (around $500) Bootstrap designers/developers?
      - drharris 14y ago
        On ODesk, you can find decent designers willing to work for $15/hour on Bootstrap. It's cheap, and the really good ones can easily do up a custom site in a work week or less, provided you have some existing assets (logo, screenshots, boilerplate text). Some do better work than others, but surprisingly, it's no longer a "get what you pay for" thing when it comes to outsourcing. Some are college students building portfolios, others are outside the country and willing to work for less. My suggestion is to first hire someone to design a logo (even if it's typeface-only, and reject any Lobster submissions) and a color palette, usually less than $100. Given that, a bootstrap pro can have you a custom site in a few work days.
ericingram 14y ago
Very nice looking theme, and a good idea. It makes me think though, so much effort lately is going into "dressing" UI and very little attention seems to be paid to improving UI structure. The old list - page hop - view pattern is feeling pretty out dated. Oh well.
benjaminwootton 14y ago
Is this sort of stuff turning application development into a commodity? You can spin up a Rails app, Bootstrap it, and them theme it off the shelf with about 30 minutes work nowadays. 10 minutes later you can have it running on a PAAS such as Heroku. Each of those jobs would have taken a number of different specialists many days in development, design, and sys admin work just a few years ago. The average simple CRUD SAAS app that is presented here is such a low barrier to entry and becoming increasingly so.
- efsavage 14y ago
  Yes? This is good thing, right?
  - taylonr 14y ago
    It depends. Is it good that I don't need to know how to get an Apache server on a *NIX box up and running just so I can play with Ruby? Absolutely. Is it good that even though I suck as UI design & colors, I can see something I like, drop a little cash and deploy it? Again absolutely. Is it good that it's now super easy to write a CRUD app that is nothing more than a digitized form? I'm not sold here. I get the allure, and I take advantage of these options as much as possible. But what I want to see is software helping solve a problem. If all you're doing is digitizing a form, I'm not convinced you've really solved a problem.
    - joelhooks 14y ago
      The entire internet is a CRUD app filled with digitized forms. It is nice not to have to think about that, and instead think about workflows and affordances that help people get stuff done. Making this basic crud easier allows more brain space for the more interesting problems to solve.
      - taylonr 14y ago
        True, my concern is more that people will just stop with the CRUD app. Geocities did some good for letting people having their own page. But the HTML was horrendous, and left many thinking they're doing amazing stuff. I don't really want to see that repeated. The problem, however, is at the developer level and not the tool level, I suppose.
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4qbomb 14y ago
Not the Creator of Dressed here. The point of Bootstrap is to make it "so easy your grandmother can do it" so why would I pay $149 for your layouts when inevitably it's going to require some form of customization you haven't thought of. Great job at taking advantage of the internet sheep, I will give you that.
- macournoyer 14y ago
  Your grandmother knows HTML & CSS?
kristofferR 14y ago
Is it retina/high-resolution ready?
dwynings 14y ago
Preview is broken (http://dresssed.com/themes/gimlet/preview http://dresssed.com/themes/gimlet/preview) "The page you were looking for doesn't exist. You may have mistyped the address or the page may have moved." And you're missing a Favicon.
- Jake232 14y ago
  Also experiencing this.
- macournoyer 14y ago
  Ooops! It's back.
siavosh 14y ago
It's weird, I pressed the close on the preview video, but the audio keeps going...
Jake232 14y ago
Have you considered integrating with the GitHub API, and adding customers details to the repo upon purchase? (if they want). That way, it makes it easier for customers to submit bugs to you, talk about suggestions, and even provide their own improvements if necessary. HackerEngine wrote about doing this here: http://blog.hackerengine.com/ http://blog.hackerengine.com/
jray 14y ago
Great theme ! Please add support to django framework. http://www.djangoproject.com http://www.djangoproject.com
soulclap 14y ago
Good to finally see a nice theme on top of Bootstrap that actually changes things to make it look individual, as expected from a quality site, while keeping the good parts that you initially picked Bootstrap for. Thumbs up for the theme and the business idea! Not everyone is using Rails though and even the Rails coders might want to use other plugins, are you going to offer themes without all the Rails customization as well?
- macournoyer 14y ago
  Yes! At some point I hope to offer non-Rails versions of the themes. But the focus now is to make more themes.

76 points by mgrouchy 14y ago

Love the idea. Small issue - when I mouse over the Buy Now button, the popup/hover box shows up for about a second, then disappears.

macournoyer 14y ago
Creator of the project here. Thx :) What browser are you on?
- jpsirois 14y ago
  I’m having this issues too with the current Google Chrome Stable 19.0.1084.56
  - macournoyer 14y ago
    Should be fixed now, thx!

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nicholassmith 14y ago

I'm honestly surprised we've not seen more of these. Bootstrap is great, it's a good set of nice tools to get you going and then a truly creative designer can take it where it needs to go. Look forward to seeing more themes appear!

sgdesign 14y ago
I think the reason there aren't more themes is the sheer quantity of work involved in styling all the bootstrap elements.
monfresh 14y ago
Here's another one with a similar price point: https://railsthemes.com/ https://railsthemes.com/

tucson 14y ago

I am looking for a way to sell ready-made websites to small businesses. Does anybody know of a solution that would take basic infos (company name, some presentation text) and produce a nicely designed (such as those themes) website ?

jamesbritt 14y ago
Webby or nanoc or some other static-site generator tool?

sneak 14y ago

These are not optimized for iPad3 (retina).

drharris 14y ago

Definitely beautiful, but the price point seems a bit strange. It definitely surpasses ThemeForest territory, but it's still built on an existing framework and has that "cookie-cutter" vibe to it. Considering a few hundred more bucks will get you a completely custom Bootstrap theme on oDesk, I wonder about the target demographic for something like this. I think the killer app for this will be a bootstrap theme where a few easy parameters (so easy your grandma can do it!) can dramatically change the look and feel to make something actually feel unique. If that is possible, I can really see this taking off.

sgdesign 14y ago
I'd be very curious to see what kind of custom theme you can get for a couple dollars...
- drharris 14y ago
  For a couple dollars? Probably nothing at all. I've been outsourcing custom bootstrap themes similar to this (perhaps slightly less polished, but completely custom to the product) for around $400-500 for 4-5 different page styles and all elements (tables, forms, jquery widgets). Some are even partially responsive.
  - kristofferR 14y ago
    Where do you find such cheap (around $500) Bootstrap designers/developers?
    - drharris 14y ago
      On ODesk, you can find decent designers willing to work for $15/hour on Bootstrap. It's cheap, and the really good ones can easily do up a custom site in a work week or less, provided you have some existing assets (logo, screenshots, boilerplate text). Some do better work than others, but surprisingly, it's no longer a "get what you pay for" thing when it comes to outsourcing. Some are college students building portfolios, others are outside the country and willing to work for less. My suggestion is to first hire someone to design a logo (even if it's typeface-only, and reject any Lobster submissions) and a color palette, usually less than $100. Given that, a bootstrap pro can have you a custom site in a few work days.

ericingram 14y ago

Very nice looking theme, and a good idea. It makes me think though, so much effort lately is going into "dressing" UI and very little attention seems to be paid to improving UI structure. The old list - page hop - view pattern is feeling pretty out dated. Oh well.

benjaminwootton 14y ago

Is this sort of stuff turning application development into a commodity? You can spin up a Rails app, Bootstrap it, and them theme it off the shelf with about 30 minutes work nowadays. 10 minutes later you can have it running on a PAAS such as Heroku. Each of those jobs would have taken a number of different specialists many days in development, design, and sys admin work just a few years ago. The average simple CRUD SAAS app that is presented here is such a low barrier to entry and becoming increasingly so.

efsavage 14y ago
Yes? This is good thing, right?
- taylonr 14y ago
  It depends. Is it good that I don't need to know how to get an Apache server on a *NIX box up and running just so I can play with Ruby? Absolutely. Is it good that even though I suck as UI design & colors, I can see something I like, drop a little cash and deploy it? Again absolutely. Is it good that it's now super easy to write a CRUD app that is nothing more than a digitized form? I'm not sold here. I get the allure, and I take advantage of these options as much as possible. But what I want to see is software helping solve a problem. If all you're doing is digitizing a form, I'm not convinced you've really solved a problem.
  - joelhooks 14y ago
    The entire internet is a CRUD app filled with digitized forms. It is nice not to have to think about that, and instead think about workflows and affordances that help people get stuff done. Making this basic crud easier allows more brain space for the more interesting problems to solve.
    - taylonr 14y ago
      True, my concern is more that people will just stop with the CRUD app. Geocities did some good for letting people having their own page. But the HTML was horrendous, and left many thinking they're doing amazing stuff. I don't really want to see that repeated. The problem, however, is at the developer level and not the tool level, I suppose.

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4qbomb 14y ago

Not the Creator of Dressed here. The point of Bootstrap is to make it "so easy your grandmother can do it" so why would I pay $149 for your layouts when inevitably it's going to require some form of customization you haven't thought of. Great job at taking advantage of the internet sheep, I will give you that.

macournoyer 14y ago
Your grandmother knows HTML & CSS?

kristofferR 14y ago

Is it retina/high-resolution ready?

dwynings 14y ago

Preview is broken (http://dresssed.com/themes/gimlet/preview http://dresssed.com/themes/gimlet/preview) "The page you were looking for doesn't exist. You may have mistyped the address or the page may have moved." And you're missing a Favicon.

Jake232 14y ago
Also experiencing this.
macournoyer 14y ago
Ooops! It's back.

siavosh 14y ago

It's weird, I pressed the close on the preview video, but the audio keeps going...

Jake232 14y ago

Have you considered integrating with the GitHub API, and adding customers details to the repo upon purchase? (if they want). That way, it makes it easier for customers to submit bugs to you, talk about suggestions, and even provide their own improvements if necessary. HackerEngine wrote about doing this here: http://blog.hackerengine.com/ http://blog.hackerengine.com/

jray 14y ago

Great theme ! Please add support to django framework. http://www.djangoproject.com http://www.djangoproject.com

soulclap 14y ago

Good to finally see a nice theme on top of Bootstrap that actually changes things to make it look individual, as expected from a quality site, while keeping the good parts that you initially picked Bootstrap for. Thumbs up for the theme and the business idea! Not everyone is using Rails though and even the Rails coders might want to use other plugins, are you going to offer themes without all the Rails customization as well?

macournoyer 14y ago
Yes! At some point I hope to offer non-Rails versions of the themes. But the focus now is to make more themes.