Updated templates, which means…
…that the first new template pages have finally been added! Four Seven website templates have been updated, re-formatted and refreshed. And there is more coming up! The rest of the updated templates will be added as soon as I can, and then I will release the new Daleri templates that I have been planning to release for months now.
The single template pages were added since I want to have more information about each template, and it would be too messy to have it all on the templates overview page. By adding one page for each design, I can have a longer description, a larger screenshot and a lot of additional material as well. For now, only the basic information has been added to the first pages. But the plan is to add links to alternate versions, older versions, blog/CMS ports and to different websites that use the templates. I am also hoping to add add-on material such as replacement headers, alternate CSS and some other stuff. I have plenty of space to use now, so feel free to let me know what you would like to see on the single template pages. I will also add similar pages for the WordPress themes as well, once the regular template pages are all online.
Template sponsorships and banners
With these new pages, it is now possible to sponsor each template. A template sponsorship means that you get your banner placed on an extremely visible place on the template page, and once a sponsor slot has been paid for - it will last for the lifetime of the template and for this website. In other words, the sponsor will be connected to the template for years ahead - and with tens of thousands of unique visitors checking out the templates page every week, each sponsor should get a whole lot of good promotion in return.
The template sponsorship option is added for two main reasons. First of all, I have got a whole lot of requests from potential advertisers who want to be linked from the templates page. It is the most visited page of this site, and the templates are widely used - currently by hundreds of thousands of websites and blogs all over the world. I used to have text link advertisements, but those turned out to work in a way that the search engines did not like - so I removed them quickly. This will be the replacement. And second, after a series of health problems during the last year (and a few doses of bad luck), I haven't been able to work very well. Returning visitors have seen it in the form of broken promises, long silent periods and a complete lack of template updates until today. Now that I am starting to feel better and I am getting my energy and inspiration back, I will need money to re-build everything that has broken during the last year - and most importantly to finally get our custom template design business running.
I hope and believe that the template sponsorships will be a valuable advertising spot for other template sites, and for anyone who want to reach out to a whole world of site builders, webmasters, bloggers and designers. If so, it will also bring me back to work with templates as a full-time job again - which I would absolutely love to do. Would you want to know more about the sponsorships? Then send me an e-mail from my contact page and tell me about the site or company you would want to promote and I'll send you more information in return!
Now, this is just a small, first step back into action. But it feels good to have taken it after all this time. Perhaps I can actually manage to surprise someone this time… Please let me know if you find some error or bug in the updated templates and their new pages!
