What would you like to see?

I meant visitors who DON’T have the images cached. Sorry.

Image size is I know always something you’re careful about, but with recent announcements from Google about more emphasis on site speed, smaller images should help especially in cases where visitors are regular repeat visitors who have the images cached.

I’d love to have a combined mobile version with the new template [@media]

I think it would be great to have some alternative css files which can be choosed to modify the background, text and links colors.

The trend goes to full flexible designs and absolutly overdozed templates. I don´t like this. I love clean ans simple designs with a clear structure. I would be happy to see more designs of this kind.

regards,
yannick

Hi, i would also like to see a fast loading template with the option of a iphone optimized layout.

Yes, this is a good idea, it would be great if you provide a mobile ready template for the iPad, iPhone, HTC and so on…

I’d like to see some different types of navigation, with horizontal & vertical menus, along with tabs at the top. It would be nice if it was available in colours other than blue :P

Hey Andreas, thanks for asking for input. Have you ever looked at adding social media connectivity for syndication and viral traffic promotion to your sites. Having the ability to quickly edit optin boxes for new give-aways offers is key without always having to go back to a graphic designer is a great feature. What about pop up lite-box video widgets that allow resizing of videos for replay so people don’t have to watch the video on the small side-bar player. Creating a footer widget may allow for expanded video and seo options, too. These are actually some of the features we offer when building out our pages for our clients… to just name a few.
All the best,
Kary Rogney
Co-Owner EmpoweredBlogs.com

Template for iPad. Great idea.

Its a shame you didn’t had a new release for almost an year now. I always loved your templates. They are simple, still trendy!

Just make sure you keep the same innocence intact in your new releases as well!

Excited to see it, keep us updated on it. Good to see you back!

I use your theme (andreas-09) and I like it, but I considered changing to a more sophisticated one like Atahualpa. It has more configuration options.
Specially better handling of header/banner images, column sizes, fonts and colors.
keep up the with good work and I’m sure I’ll love and update my sites to your new theme!

Sure you can edit and remove the name of the other theme I cited on my last comment. I just wanted you to know of a theme I really like. This one doesnt need to be published
=)

I just recently bought an iPad and I tend to use it more than my laptop! It’s just so versatile! So if you ask me, which technically you have, I say an iPad template. =) I’m actually thinking about getting rid of the laptop, that’s how much I love using my iPad!

Awesome, Offering something helpful for FREE is a way to give community back from which we have learned so much!

All the best Andreas! I am sure these templates will be better from what you have offered in the past!

Thanks for the input! Templates optimized for mobile devices is definitely a priority. My fiancée Johanna has both an iPhone and an iPad and both are really nice machines. I will get the new iPhone 4 when it comes to Sweden, so templates for touch screen devices is something you can expect later this summer. It has actually been the single most common request for a long time.

Would it be a good idea to include mobile-friendly versions in each template, or would you rather see templates created specifically for the purpose? I will probably do both, just asking to see what to start with!

These are nice gadgets but for my sites they are not even close to be important. The percentage of access from iphone/ipads is less than 5%.
Obviously it’s nice to have a mobile-friendly version of the site (I use a plugin for that matter), but my main interest if a nice and fast theme for web users.
Cheers!

I think fresh CSS3 stuff would be great to see. Like more round (“border-radius”), and shady things to not look too much ‘classic’.

BTW, why doesn’t your Submit button (below) change mouse style on hover?

The themes you developed are great but when a website becomes difficult (with lots of menu-items) I prefer a sepperate menu file that I include with php.
When you only make pages in css and xhtml you have to change a lot when the menu changes. The screens get wider and wider so most standard with will be about 900 pixels. Al lot of WordPress themes are looking old-fashioned after a few years.

Templates aimed at the mobile market would be great.

Also in a standard template I would like to have rotating images so that ever time someone loads a page the image could change if I have lets say ten different header images.

Also including some Twitter/facebook update box in the design.

—Andreas

I guess it doesn’t really matter to me how you do the templates, just that you DO the templates, haha. I am also thinking about getting the iPhone4. (I don’t know why, lol. I have an iPad!) But there will be times that rather than pulling out my massive tablet I can just hop on my iPhone and head this way. =D

Really exited, Please do post when its live.
It would be great to have iphone version of it.

Andreas, I think almost everybody like “Simplicity concept”. Minimalist appearance and soft color transition from one object to another make a theme friendly looking to the reader. Sparkling things and a distance range color contrast make our eyes inconvenient. I want to see something simple, but elegant, not many distraction around the content space.

Some of my ideas: Floating social media (Facebook, twitter etc) buttons on the right side (just like the feedback button on modxcms.com) . A short rectangle for a post summary with a little thumbnail (most themes I see, they always have big sizes). Bookmark button on up right. A small gravatar of the author beside a post/article. Related post with small thumbnails if it’s a blog theme located under each article. Simple image slider in a box sized in the top sidebar. Running text to the random link to articles (like in celebuzz.com). Would be nice to see those things within a theme :-)

Greetz, Nurul Azis

I agree with others that have commented on mobile templates. I’m finding that area very confusing, and having a really solid example to work from would be very helpful. Thank you by the way for your other templates, several of which I have used.

oops cant even key in my own domain name!

Ipod and templates could be interesting.

I would like to see templates to fit a purpose will be more beneficial first as ipad versions can be added later.

unbeliavable, andreas is active again here, well done !!

Last night I thought for another feature as an addition for my first ideas. That is, A pop up of a small rectangle (just like the size of this comment field) wilt low transparency as a message (can be welcoming message, announcement and so on) that pop on the first load of the homepage (there is no much dealing for the usability though) but It just look cool in the artistic way :-)

I think built it mobile friendly version is great, so no plugin need to enhance browsing experience for iphone, ipad and other touch screen devices.
Actually, I like your previous template but if there is a color switcher would be perfect since many kinds of website use your template while each talks about different thing in different niche. So webmaster without technical code can feel it easy to adjust the color that suit with their audience.

Maybe a iPhone (iPod Touch) Template? Most of the new mobilephones supports the iphone safari size..

I am a fan of your free templates Andreas. I have used it on various of my clients websites. Yours are one of the best free templates around. One suggestion that I would render is of more professional/business templates with big/header business image, may be!

I guess it doesn’t really matter to me how you do the templates, just that you DO the templates, haha. I am also thinking about getting the iPhone4. (I don’t know why, lol. I have an iPad!) But there will be times that rather than pulling out my massive tablet I can just hop on my iPhone and head this way
thanks..

I think fresh CSS3 stuff would be great to see. Like more round (“border-radius”), and shady things to not look too much ‘classic’.

BTW, why doesn’t your Submit button (below) change mouse style on hover?

I would like to see templates that uses the same technique as Google with images. They just load one single image and then have all the little icons shown from that image by having coordinates in the CSS. It really speeds the webasite up. Should be common practice when making modern templates.

“Would it be a good idea to include mobile-friendly versions in each template, or would you rather see templates created specifically for the purpose?”

The mobile friendly versions being included would just be awesome!

It would be interesting to see extended use of printer and screen css control – I think it would be great if you could stay with one template and use css to provide device specific “looks” rather than having different templates for the same site. But I suspect it’s much harder to do it that way.

Also it would be nice to see a superfish menu option on a template to implement drop-down menus – we’ve done that on our main website and found that the superfish menus are easy to use.

I wish you well with your life and health issues – it’s always nice to see / hear of someone living their life well.

It would be nice if the theme had 3 blocks (something like 250 x 250 px) that you can move around. Put the boxes on every place you want. Maby it can be done with java and ajax.
keep the
That way you can change the layout quick and keep your readers sharp.