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blackrockdigital/startbootstrap

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TLDR

A free collection of ~25 website themes and templates built on Bootstrap 4, covering portfolios, blogs, admin dashboards, and business sites, download one and customize the content to launch a site fast.

Mindmap

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  root((startbootstrap))
    What it does
      Website templates
      Admin dashboards
      Blog starters
    Tech Stack
      HTML and CSS
      Bootstrap 4
      JavaScript
    Use Cases
      Portfolio sites
      Business landing pages
      Blog setup
    Audience
      Vibe coders
      Designers
      Founders
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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Download the freelancer or resume template to build a personal portfolio site in minutes.

USE CASE 2

Use the agency or business template as the starting point for a small business or startup landing page.

USE CASE 3

Deploy the clean blog template to run a simple personal or company blog.

USE CASE 4

Use SB Admin 2 as the shell for an internal admin dashboard or tool.

Tech stack

HTMLCSSBootstrap 4JavaScript

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min
Use freely for personal or commercial projects, just keep the copyright notice.

In plain English

Start Bootstrap is a collection of free website themes and templates built on Bootstrap 4, a widely used open-source framework for building web pages. Bootstrap handles the underlying grid system, layout rules, and baseline component styling, and these themes and templates give you a complete-looking starting point for a site without designing everything from the ground up. All items in the collection are released under the MIT license, which permits use in personal and commercial projects without restrictions. The collection is divided into two groups. Themes are more fully developed designs with distinct visual personalities: a one-page agency layout, a freelancer portfolio, a grayscale multipurpose page, a clean blog, a coming-soon page, a creative one-pager, a business website, a resume page, and an admin dashboard called SB Admin 2, among others. Templates are lighter starting points that provide page structure without locking in a particular visual style: options include a blog home page, a blog post layout, a shop homepage, a product item page, a sidebar navigation template, a bare HTML starter, a scrolling navigation template, and a modern multi-page business layout. Across both groups there are roughly 25 items in total. Each item can be previewed on the Start Bootstrap website before downloading. The README itself is a brief catalog, and full documentation for each theme or template lives on the website at startbootstrap.com. If you are putting together a small business site, a personal portfolio, a blog, or a simple admin interface, this collection gives you a working HTML starting point that does not require you to build layout and spacing from scratch.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
I downloaded the Start Bootstrap agency template. Help me update the hero section text and change the color scheme to match my brand colors.
Prompt 2
I'm using the Start Bootstrap clean blog template. Add a Disqus comment section below each post.
Prompt 3
Take the Start Bootstrap resume template HTML and help me add a button that lets visitors download my resume as a PDF.
Prompt 4
I'm customizing the SB Admin 2 dashboard from Start Bootstrap. Show me how to add a sortable data table to one of the pages.
Prompt 5
I want to deploy a Start Bootstrap template to GitHub Pages for free. Walk me through the steps.
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