Free UI and CSS Frameworks for Web

Because one of the first version of Bootstrap was used to create one of Twitter's former Web page layouts, for a long time this framework was known under the name Twitter Bootstrap. Since Bootstrap is not officially used for Twitter's layout anymore (not...

Lemonade was built for standard 12-column layouts, but this can be easily adapted to any number of columns you may need. Since it uses CSS only, the grid system is extremely lightweight, but is also very easy to use, requiring developers only to add the...

dasBaum is a plugin for easily presenting nested data structures, utilizing the classic menu tree display, made famous by desktop operating systems.This widget reproduces the look and feel of a tree menu, but via HTML, CSS, and jQuery, so it can be used...

Spread is actually written in Compass, a more organized version of SASS, and then compiled to CSS for serving it to clients.It ports all the original Golden Grid System's features, even the small JS widget for turning a grid overlay on top of your page to...

Bootstrap-Admin-Template (also known as Metis) is basically Bootstrap + a bunch of jQuery plugins, all brought together under an umbrella project and merged into a well-oiled admin panel template.Bootstrap-Admin-Template can be deployed with any complex...

Furtive was built mainly for building Web pages and Web apps that need to render on mobile devices first and foremost. Yes it is responsive, and yes it can display properly on desktop devices, but that's not its primary feature. Since bandwidth usage is...

HTML5 Bones sets up a basic project structure on which developers can add their content.It was specifically designed around the new HTML 5 standard, but also comes with support for older browsers (via normalize.css and HTML5Shiv).HTML5 Bones' main role is...

Kickstart was previously known as Kickstrap, an improved version of the Bootstrap UI framework with many features not found in the original Bootstrap package. As the framework evolved, the project moved into a domain of its own and it was rebranded as...

Skull cannot be compared to other more complex UI frameworks like Bootstrap or Foundation, being in its incipient stages and more suitable for smaller Web projects.The framework is quite easy to deploy and comes with a sample page with all its components...

Headstart is a tool for automatically installing a default project setup. It's a little hard to understand what exactly it does, so bare with us.Let's say you're developing websites or Web apps and after months or years of working in the industry you have...