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supersan | 9 years ago

It's pretty good way to browse actually. My pet-peeve with sites like wrapbootstrap, etc is that you have to open each theme, click the live preview button and then click the "remove frame" icon to get the feel. Then unless you opened it in a new window, you forget where you started. Your site solves that problem. Good work!

P.S. To make browsing even faster, maybe you can add up down arrows in the lightbox too, so that I can move on to the next theme and find it even faster. Just my 2c.

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danialtz|9 years ago

Indeed, I was spending 15 min minimum for each theme, and then there are themes like Bridge that has 200 different style sub-themes (or demos), where each can be used actually for any website. So, who has time to go through all?

This is why we made it very easy to go through themes and their related sub-themes. It can be even improved further with your great arrow down idea and a modal.

dperfect|9 years ago

I agree - this is better than most sites for browsing themes. However, I still find it hard to get a feel for a theme's style when a giant cover image makes up 90% of a screenshot for a theme. I understand that most modern themes are image-heavy (especially on the home page), and full-page thumbnails are a good way to see the high-level layout characteristics of a theme, but I'm often more on the lookout for good typography, navigational elements, icons, etc.

Not sure about the best solution for that, but it makes me think there's probably a better way to highlight both the high-level and low-level details of a theme at a glance.

danialtz|9 years ago

Good point. You can click on the screenshot again for full resolution and back.

coderdude|9 years ago

Good point. I'll consider removing the preview frames on WrapBootstrap. I've also grown weary of having to click twice.