Bearing in mind I’m not the best developer in the world, Roots has allowed me to create something I can be proud of: http://www.scafellpike.org.uk
It’s pretty quick too, on relatively cheap/commodity hosting, but with W3TC and MaxCDN.
Unfortunately you have to revert to ugly URLs to get Minify working, and although Grunt does a great job of minifying LESS and JS, with plugins like BBPress, WooCommerce and Sabai Directory (Ok, and a few more), there’s a heap of other stuff that goes in. I’ve had to minify 40 + files in total!
We just helped a client launch the 2.0 version of their site using Roots and WooCommerce. Thanks for having such great documentation! We’re very happy that Roots is supporting Smile Squared and their tremendous mission to donate toothbrushes to improve the dental health of children in need around the world.
I made this site a couple of months ago. It still needs some adjustments and is very simple compared to others posted here, but I am sharing it anyway:
Just launched a couple more Roots-based sites. This brings the total to six. These two were both designed by Amy Williams, but as you can see the clients preferred very different styles:
I have created a web app that does local digital marketing training using roots. It’s very appealing to the eye and I think it would look really good on your “Roots Themed Gallery”.