Related to this but somewhat off-topic: I just worked through Michael Hartl's RoR tutorial[1] and early on he mentions that it's depressing to work on something with absolutely zero style. (He uses Blueprint to jumpstart the process and then gives chunks of CSS along the way, so that what you're looking at as you work is never awful/empty/unstyled.) Along those lines but even more fully-baked, I just found Pilu's[2] web-app themes[3] in a recent blog post[4]. Maybe everyone who does Rails knows about these, but they were new to me.
Thanks for the pointers. It is indeed much more fun to work on an app that looks hot!
I've seen pilu's theme, but I'm aiming at having themes designed by professionals (no offense to pilu), with quality similar to http://www.woothemes.com/
Yup, and I agree that the two issues are distinct. Having more fully designed templates that you would buy for a final project is (to my mind) different from wanting something immediate (and free) that you can use while building.
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Related to this but somewhat off-topic: I just worked through Michael Hartl's RoR tutorial[1] and early on he mentions that it's depressing to work on something with absolutely zero style. (He uses Blueprint to jumpstart the process and then gives chunks of CSS along the way, so that what you're looking at as you work is never awful/empty/unstyled.) Along those lines but even more fully-baked, I just found Pilu's[2] web-app themes[3] in a recent blog post[4]. Maybe everyone who does Rails knows about these, but they were new to me.
[1] http://railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book
[2] https://github.com/pilu
[3] http://pilu.github.com/web-app-theme/
[4] http://blog.bryanbibat.net/2011/01/03/starting-a-professiona...
Thanks for the pointers. It is indeed much more fun to work on an app that looks hot!
I've seen pilu's theme, but I'm aiming at having themes designed by professionals (no offense to pilu), with quality similar to http://www.woothemes.com/
Yup, and I agree that the two issues are distinct. Having more fully designed templates that you would buy for a final project is (to my mind) different from wanting something immediate (and free) that you can use while building.