Bootstrap Icon Search Update

So my  site bootstrapicons.com has been up for a little while, and like all things, there have been some things that I have noticed that could be improved. I also have received some great feedback (Thank you!) that I wanted to incorporate into the system. So, I have been working really hard on it lately (okay so maybe “really hard” is relative, but I spent a few night drinking red wine and tinkering with it) and have a new release. Feel free to head over to http://bootstrapicons.com  and check out the changes.

Here is a little list of the new features:

  • Added support for bootstrap 3.0.2 icons
  • Added support for font awesome 4.0.3 icons
  • Updated the search to use tabs that allow all sets to be search without reentering the search terms
  • Added a tag index page
  • Smoothed out some of the design
  • Did some housekeeping on the tag approval/admin side

Introducing Bootstrap Icon Search

I really love the bootstrap front-end framework, and one of my favorite things about it is that it comes with a great icon set. The biggest issue I have with it is that the class names to call those icons are not always either easy to remember or accurate for how I use them. For example, I like to use the icon-envelope as an icon on any systems that has a messaging system. Every time I have gone do use it however, I struggle to remember what the name of the  @%#$ icon class is!! It got to the point that I just kept a paper printout at my desk. That seemed like a bad way to do it, so I created a website that allows you so search the icons based on “tags” that are submitted by users. That way, I will be able to find my message icon, and hopefully, some other people will be able to as well. You can find the site at http://bootstrapicons.com – the more people that use it and submit tags, the better it will function, so please take a look and let me know what you think!