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by 50shade 2991 days ago
They seem kinda cookie cutter...
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They're bootstrap themes - basically customisations to the colour, spacing, font, borders etc.

I dont use bootstrap themes like this myself directly but they can have a very useful purpose (which I intend to take advantage of)

Suppose you release an application, it doesn't matter if it's OSS, Commercial, or even hosted SaaS. It's a business web-app, so you use Bootstrap as your "UI Kit". Ok, Bootstrap has some basic default styles, and you maybe have a designer create a custom theme for your app.

But the user/customer wants to customise the appearance, perhaps it's exposed to their clients somehow, perhaps it's visible on a physical terminal in a shop.

Either way - this is where bootstrap themes (and I mean themes, like these - not so much those "Bootstrap Dashboard" which use a whole whack of extra JS libraries, markup and css) like the linked ones, or those found on https://bootswatch.com can be very effective.

If you build several applications, the effect is magnified, as the customer/user can now use multiple apps with the same custom theme, with almost no work at all from you.

Sorry to hear that. I've tried to keep some consistency with the layout because the fonts and colors are already all over the place.