Finding themes for Visual Studio 2013’s new web application template

If you start a new web application with Visual Studio 2013, you can find only a single project template listed. This replaces the older different templates for Web Forms, MVC, Dynamic Data, and so forth. Now, the new basic template looks different in each Visual Studio release, and the latest 2013 version is no exception.

This time, Microsoft has chosen to use an open-source set of design files (HTML+CSS+JS) that are collectively called Bootstrap themes which are developed in GitHub. The default look and feel is based on the Jumbotron theme.

Of course, you are free to build your own site templates and change the look and feel to your liking, but Bootstrap can be pretty flexible. Also, you can easily change the color scheme, fonts and CSS styles by downloading themes from a site called Bootswatch.

This is a handy site, and contains about a dozen of nice templates. Be sure to check these out!