WebThemez alternatives: a 12-year-old domain, rebuilt

WebThemez kept a domain from 2014 and replaced the whole site on it. What is in the new catalogue, what the rebuild cost, and what to read first.

A thick slab of old weathered dark glass with a brand new luminous glass panel fused onto its front face, the join clearly visible, lit emerald and cyan
Years of old material, and a new surface fused over the front of it.

WebThemez has held its domain since 2014, and it replaced everything on it with a library of AI prompts. The free Bootstrap templates that made the name are gone. What sits there now is a gallery of 158 items, most of them free to take.

The interesting part of this page is not the swap. It is what a domain keeps when you do that and what it quietly drops, because the answer decides whether the age on the registration record means anything at all.

What WebThemez sells today#

Catalogue158 items: 35 templates, 31 sections, 92 backgrounds
Free88 of the 158, including full specifications
Deliverya Markdown prompt and a ZIP of the React project, per item
Price$149 a year or $249 once
Refundsno published policy

Read that first row carefully before you compare it with anything. The 92 backgrounds are looping WebP and MP4 files rather than prompts, so more than half the catalogue is footage. The prompt-bearing part is the templates and the sections, which is a smaller and more honest number than 158.

The two delivery paths are worth knowing about: each item gives you the written specification and a React project archive, so you can paste the text into a builder or open the code, whichever suits the job.

How to shop a catalogue like that#

Three item types, answering three different questions.

  • Templates are whole-page specifications. Take one when the page you want is roughly the page in the preview.
  • Sections are single blocks. Take one when your page already exists and one band of it is not working.
  • Backgrounds are footage. Take one when you want motion behind a hero and you would rather not shoot or licence anything.

The trap is counting all three as one unit when you compare catalogue sizes between sellers. A hundred looping backgrounds and a hundred page specifications are not comparable stock, and only one of them tells a model anything about layout, type or rhythm.

The prompts are the strong part#

This is the part a buyer should actually weigh, and it is good. The free specifications run long, and they are written in values rather than adjectives:

  • A named brand accent as a hex, rather than a warm orange.
  • A hero heading at 80px on desktop, with its line height stated.
  • A navbar blur interpolating from 8px to 24px across a fifty-pixel scroll range.
  • An infinite ticker at 40s linear.

They also pin exact asset URLs inside the prompt and instruct the model to use those URLs, which is the mechanic that kills the grey-placeholder failure mode on the first paste, and the same trade 3DWebsitesAI makes with its own CDN. The cost of it is in the same sentence: the site you ship then depends on somebody else's storage staying up, so swap the assets before it goes live.

Thirty-four full specifications are free to read. If you are trying to work out whether a long written spec is a format you want at all, read one end to end before you read another comparison page, including this one.

What a rebuild keeps, and what it drops#

Here is the part that generalises past this one seller.

A domain accumulates two different things. It accumulates a registration date, which nothing can take away, and it accumulates links pointing at specific pages, which is where the value actually lives. Delete the pages and the second kind does not transfer to the replacement. A link to a URL that now returns a 404 passes nothing on to anything.

A wide dark plane scattered with the empty sockets of hundreds of glass cards that are no longer there, a handful of real panels still glowing among them
The structure survives the rebuild. What was in it does not, unless every old address is pointed somewhere.

The old WebThemez estate was large: template pages, tag pages, demo pages, category pages, and hundreds of article slugs at the root. They are gone, and they are gone without redirects, so search results that still list them land on nothing.

None of that is exotic and all of it is avoidable. If you ever move a catalogue site, the whole job is four steps:

  1. Export every address that ever returned a page, not only the ones in your current sitemap.
  2. Map each one to its nearest living equivalent. An old template page goes to the template that replaced it.
  3. Where nothing replaced it, send it one level up, to the category or the gallery, and not to the homepage.
  4. Serve those as permanent redirects and leave them there. They cost nothing to keep and they do not expire.

That is a day of work on a large estate, and it is the difference between carrying a decade of accumulated value into a new product and starting from zero with an old registration date.

What to hold a specification to#

A long prompt is not automatically a good one, and length is the easiest thing to fake. The useful question is which decisions are made in the file and which are left for the model to improvise.

Thanor writes every prompt to the same fixed shape, and the shape is the product:

  • Four to six hex values, each with a named role, and the neutral's hue bias stated, because a pure mid-grey is the clearest tell of a generated design.
  • Two named faces with the fallback stack written out, a scale in px, weights, line heights and letter-spacing.
  • A grid, a gutter, page margins and a vertical rhythm as real numbers, in the shape of 160 / 96 / 48.
  • Named easing curves with real values such as cubic-bezier(.16,1,.3,1), and durations in ms rather than the word smooth.
  • Numbered sections, each buildable without having read the one before it.
  • A never list written against that specific design.
  • Acceptance checks a person can run by eye.

Every file clears a 1,200 word floor and an automatic gate before it enters the library, and the gate rejects a prompt for a missing block, fewer than four colours, or motion described with no curve and no duration.

If you are choosing today#

If you wantTake
Free specifications you can read right nowWebThemez, 34 of them
The React project as well as the textWebThemez, a ZIP per item
Looping video backgroundsWebThemez, the largest part of that catalogue
The design decisions themselves, as exact valuesThanor

The first three are stock. You browse them, you pick one that looks like the thing in your head, and you paste.

The fourth is the case where nothing in a gallery looks like the thing in your head, because the thing in your head is not a template. That is a different purchase and it is the one this site exists for.

Go and see what Thanor puts in a specification, and judge it the way this page has asked you to judge everything else: by how much of the design it settles before the model gets a say.

Questions this raises

Is the WebThemez domain really twelve years old?

The current owner has held it continuously since 2014. A different site under different ownership sat at the same address years before that, which is why some tools report a longer history, so twelve years of continuous ownership is the honest figure.

Do the old WebThemez template pages still work?

No. The free-template estate that made the domain known is gone, and the old URLs return a 404 rather than redirecting to anything on the new site. Search results still point at some of them.

How many WebThemez items are actually prompts?

Fewer than the catalogue count suggests. Most of the 158 items are looping video and WebP backgrounds. Templates and sections are the prompt-bearing part, and 35 of the items are templates.

Can I read a WebThemez prompt before paying?

Yes. The free items publish their full specification on the gallery page, and those specifications are long, with named hex values, pixel sizes and stated durations rather than adjectives.

What does a rebuild cost a domain in search?

Whatever pointed at the deleted pages. A link to a URL that now returns a 404 passes nothing on, so a site can keep its age, its registration date and its reputation while losing the accumulated value that made the age worth anything.

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Every library in this category, taken apart one at a time. What each one contains, what it costs, what it leaves out, and what you still have to decide yourself.