One of my goals is to make themes with personalized design. Currently, only the Photo Frame theme allows certain extent of customization by changing the image in the photo frame. In my latest theme (Simple Style), you’ll be able to customize the whole header and part of the footer.

How to change the images for the Simple Style theme?
Step 1
Create your own header and footer images with the size as follows:
Header image size: 1280 x 400 px
Footer image size: 400 x 160 px

Step 2
Name the header and footer images as bg.jpg and bg_footer.jpg respectively.

Step 3
Upload the file to the /images folder.

To see how a theme using the same coding can look so differently, we have created a few samples.

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Most of the free Wordpress themes out there are having Creative Commons Attribute 2.0+ License. This means that you can modify the theme in anyway you want but you have to attribute the work in the manner specified by the author.

If you download the free WP themes from other sites using this type of license, you’ll notice that most of them have the footer section encrypted.

Many of you would like the freedom to change how the footer looks. With an encrypted footer, you can’t change things like adding a “Contact” link or an RSS button. You might also want to check whether there is no malicious code in the encryption.

The following is the screenshot of how the encrypted footer looks like:

This post shows you how to decrypt the footer encryption. The good thing is you DON’T need any decoding software nor programming skill in order to do that.

Sounds simple. Yes it is! Please follow the few steps below to remove the footer encryption:
Click here for full instructions

This is awesome! Thanks so much for the detailed walk through! The first time I saw this template I was scared to touch it because it looked so hard…yet I downloaded it anyway! Once I took the time to read it I realized how simple you had made it.

The template looks great! Thanks for making such amazing ones!

Phoenix from Moresims2tales.com

The second thing I love about this theme is the customizable, rotating photo at the top. I’ve uploaded about five or six photos, and you should see a different one each time you load the blog. Hit your refresh button to see it change now. This feature makes the blog truly my own, a reflection of my family.

Cindy…more story at Fencedinfamily.com/blog

Einige haben sich über das letzte “unpersönliche” Theme beschwert, von daher nun etwas persönlicher…

Ich benutze nun das Wordpress Theme Photo-Frame, das oberste mittlere Bild kann man einfach ändern, bei jeder Aktualisierung der Webseite erscheint ein anderes Bild (natürlich nur wenn man viele Bilder hochgeladen hat). Ansonsten steht der Hintergrund auch als JPG zur Verfügung und kann geändert werden.

Ich finde der Hintergrund passt zu dem Wetter - zur Jahreszeit und natürlich auch zu mir

Dieses Wordpress Theme ist Wiget - Fähig, daher ideal für meine Spielereien … und damit es persönlicher wird habe ich auch direkt meinen natürlichen Feind (die Blitze) mit eingebaut… mittig findet Ihr nun abwechselnd Bilder von mir - entweder als Motiv oder von mir geschossene Bilder…

So - und nun darf gemeckert werden!

Jens from Jens-stratmann.de

This is probably the best theme in whole WordPress theme directory.
Spent approximately 5 hours going through those themes and this was the only suitable one 
Thanks alot and hopefully I’ll see more of these extreme high quality themes from you someday  

OmegaZ from wp.dysentria.com

OmegaZ,
I would agree with that!
I also spent a very good amount of time, looking at different themes.
When I weighed out looks, with functionality, this was the winner, in my opinion.

Mark from blog.hypercubecafe.com

It took me just one evening to implement your template, create my site pages, and paste in my content. You are a very talented designer. Thanks so much. My site looks wonderful.

Eve from Eveboston.com

OMG! I have been looking and looking for a 3 column theme that’s different from all those boring themes that are out there. I had actually bookmarked your page with the RSS icons so I could feature it on my StumbleRumba.com blog. When I saw the word Themes at the top, I had to check it out. And I’m so glad I did. Going to put this one on a couple of other blogs I have too. Thank you so much! Will definitely be watching for more of your outstanding themes!

Beamer from Earnbloggingmoney

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Base on the statistics by W3school, more than 90% of the internet users are using a display resolution with 1024×768 pixels or more. If you study the trend, more and more users are switching from lower resolution to higher resolution display over the years. In 2000, only 4% of the users were using a display of more than 1024px. The overall users in this category kept increasing and it reached 57% as of January 2009.

All my themes were designed base on 1024px and above. Some of the themes like Maple Leaf (preview) and Beach Holiday (preview) even show nice background when viewed with 1600px.