I am very selective as to who I want to partner with. A good partner will make my business flourish and a bad partner will affect my business in a negative way. I am a person who puts a lot of emphasis on the quality so I choose only good partners.

In my search for the Blogger/Blogspot templates, I found out that many of the good templates are converted from the Wordpress themes. This was when I started to think: it will affect my reputation in the Blogger world if my themes have been converted poorly. I need a good coder to convert my themes!

I am glad that I found Alvaris Falcon, the owner of Falconhive.com and the co-owner of BloggerStyles.com. Though he has only 9 months experience in converting Wordpress theme to the Blogger platform, his converted templates are so Blogger-friendly. Until now, he is still very active in doing the conversion work. You’ll see 1-3 new Wordpress themes converted by him to Blogger almost every week. Check out Falconhive and Blogger Styles for more info.

I also notice that Alvaris won’t stop there after finishing the theme conversion. He will make sure that his converted Blogger templates work. When the template users reported any problems, he will look into them and try his best to solve them. Each revision being released signify less problems for the template. Take a look at how he handles the support on one of his most popular converted templates, Zinmag Primus and you’ll know what I mean.

Due to all his effort being put in the theme conversion, I am sure he will do a fantastic job in converting my Wordpress themes to the Blogger platform. In this January, I contacted him about my request of making him the official converter of my Wordpress themes. I am glad that he accepted it.

In this post, I’d like to announce that BloggerStyles/Falconhive has been given the rights to be the official Wordpress theme converter for Templatelite!

Previously, all my themes were tested against all Wordpress version from 2.3 onwards. That is doable when I only need to work on less than 10 themes every time Wordpress releases a new version officially. 

Since mid February 2009, I have decided to dedicate myself to releasing at least 4 themes and 10 articles/resources per month. After 3 months, you’ll expect to see a total of about 20 quality Wordpress themes on this site and all of the themes are free to download.

I foresee that I’ll be super busy in the months ahead so I will have very limited time left to test all the themes against previous as well as the latest Wordpress version. However, since you are using my theme (I am honour that you do), it is my responsibility to make sure it works on the latest Wordpress version that is released officially. I won’t test against the Beta Wordpress version.

When Wordpress officially releases a new version, I will test my themes against the latest version. It will be an ongoing process so you will have to wait a bit before ALL the themes complete the testing. When I have finished testing a theme, I will update it under the “Change Log” section of the respective theme pages. 

However, my testing might not be so thorough so if you find that any of my themes that doesn’t work well on the most updated Wordpress version, please let me know and I’ll look into that and solve the issues the soonest.

Do I provide support for the older Wordpress versions?
I am afraid not. Though the upgraded theme should work with the older version, I advise you to upgrade your Wordpress to the latest version and use my theme that has been tested against that version. 

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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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

I LOVE your CoffeeDesk theme, and have customized it to reflect my own personality. See http://jahangiri.us/news/2010/07/05/customizing-blog-design/ for a detailed explanation of the changes, if you’re at all interested.

Two complaints I get on this theme, though, I feel are worth passing along:
First, the load time is comparatively slow (though the graphics are pretty small, so I’m not entirely sure why – seems there’s a .js file that’s slowing things down a bit); second, people hate the wide-narrow-narrow column arrangement. It fits the theme, but visitors might be happier if the planner appeared larger and the right side appeared to be cut off, so that the post area could be WIDER, and there would only be the one sidebar. (Does that make sense??) Anyway, I’m mostly willing to put up with those critics and their moaning, for now – but I do get those two comments from a LOT of visitors.

Holly Jahangiri from Jahangiri.us