I've been working with Bootstrap for a couple of months now and I have noticed that it is pretty difficult to filter through all the free and premium templates available for Bootstrap. You usually have to wade through fancy cover images and screenshots.<p>I have created Bootstrap Carnival to make theme discovery a bit easier. It instantly shows you the demos of over 1000+ premium Bootstrap themes from multiple marketplaces (WrapBootstrap, Creative Market and Themeforest).<p>Let me know what you think about it.
Sorry to hijack, but I literally just launched something very similar:<p><a href="http://www.themebeacon.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.themebeacon.com/</a><p>I even posted about it to HN the other day (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7888745" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7888745</a>) but it seemed to vanish in about 30 seconds...<p>Now that I've got that shameless plug out of the way...<p>I really like the way you have executed on this - particularly the way you show each theme's description while you load the demo page in the background. Are you just pulling themes from ThemeForest at the moment? And may I ask how you're seeding your database? Are you grabbing RSS feeds, or have you built scrapers to go out and grab data from the various description pages?<p>EDIT: PS, can't get your blog link to work for some reason? I'm in Chrome...
I want to kick you in the fucking nuts for autoloading the demo and not giving me the option to read about it first. You have text there but then you cover it up. Have a separate "Launch Demo" button, seriously.
Nice site. Will use.<p>One tip... am on Firefox 20 using Linux.<p>I arrowed through a few themes, but after checking a demo am having trouble backing out into the main menu. It keeps sending me back into the same demo when I "back button" out.
<a href="http://bootstrapcarnival.com/search?q=" rel="nofollow">http://bootstrapcarnival.com/search?q=</a> shows empty :)<p>is there a way to search for free themes?<p>looks awesome!
No offence since this is not directly related to bootstrap, but the default example theme is a good example of a style that seems to be gaining popularity and is completely garbage.<p>Websites (generally) are meant to be read and optimized for digesting data in a meaningful way, they are not an exercise in animation and moving everything into a confusing mess of eyeball soup.<p>Web designers, would you build a doorway on a house that constantly moves...?<p>Please stop building web sites where everything animates into place, it's a horrible trend.