Template Monster has the honor of congratulating Flash Perfection – the free Flash Tutorials Website – for having published in excess of 1000 tutorials! We appreciate the fine work of Flash Perfection and are proud to have them as a part of our educational network family.

Flash technology has its devotees – and webpage template users have found a lot of guidance in these many tutorials. Customers and potential customers alike have given this website a lot of praise in recent times. The praise has been most often related to real helpfulness that has been afforded by the tutorials. Comments run from clarity and simplicity to comprehensive and up-to-date. The Template Monster family is happy to know that Flash perfection has these kinds of customers.

There is no doubt that Flash Perfection will continue to provide real support by way of its tutorials for all of our Flash Templates customers and designers. Just have a look at the latest tutorials listed on Flash Perfection’s home page, and all free. And, all of existing flash tutorials are revised periodically to keep you up-to-date.

So, know that you are appreciated Flash Perfection – by Template Monster and all of our Flash Webpage Template customers.

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Our WordPress themes have received an analysis which appeared in a review, “Template Monster Themes” of July 6th, 2006 in WordPress Station. Michael B. (the owner of WordPress Station) made a post on his blog about our free WordPress themes after trying out some of them back in February of 2006.

When we started producing WordPress themes on regular basis we got word to Michael that we would like for him to review the new designs. So he chose one and did the analysis. Michael went on record, he essentially found our WordPress Templates to be limited in its use of CSS and XHTML. He had some nice things to say about our graphics and pricing.

In the WordPress Station article Michael goes on to say that he believes Template Monster will continue to develop WordPress Templates for the changing needs of the WordPress community. Yes, Template Monster has many, many choices for a well designed, good looking WordPress Template, and they provide a great start for blogs that have a specific theme in mind.

And now some answering statements from our Production Team:

One thing I’d suggest to Template Monster is to incorporate the use of the widgets plugin…

1. There are many different plug-ins for WordPress which improve the experience for both bloggers and readers alike. Template Monster does not (and nobody should) guarantee that all users will want even the most popular of them. When starting this product line our aim was to provide a basic product as soon as possible. Which is what we provided. Now with some experience with WordPress templates sales and technical support statistics we will add more features to our themes. We are actively moving to production of three-column themes (as you may know we already provide two-column themes) which will give our clients more options to play with the blocks and structure. The next step will be widgets. As with any product line we must develop, release and incorporate changes into our products that have been tested in both spheres: technical and market demand. This takes time, but getting it right is not just a matter of creativity, it is also a matter of supplying what the market needs. We will accelerate our production in WordPress Templates because the blogosphere is a fastest evolving field in Web.

Now, onto the the move from tables to CSS/XHTML.

2. About CSS: The aim here is to make sure these themes render the same under the major browsers. Using the display property of div tags in CSS is very good for the Mozilla family browsers. As for IE we use float property in CSS instead. Of course there are many different coding methods. We chose this one for its stability, and because our coder team is very familiar with this particular method - so we used what works and tests. The only bad thing about this method is that you will need to edit HTML along with CSS to customize the layout. We believe most of our WordPress customers use the theme as it is, without making changes to it. But we are currently conducting a special survey among our WordPress customers to find what changes are needed, if any.

Not to mention, there’s no h1 tag for the title…

3. As for h1 and h2 tags: In our understanding design is of greater value than SEO. We assume that those who do SEO for their blogs know how to add h1 and h2 tags. Those who don’t do SEO – wouldn’t care about it at all. You will need to add two more CSS styles (line-height and font-size) to add these tags. It’s not a big deal actually, but we are considering adding them to our new themes.

Template Monster Team

Template Monster is having a wonderful summer and we hope that you are too. We appreciate our customers for choosing us. We appreciate our affiliates and TRUE partners for their enthusiasm and great team spirit.

Template Monster wishes you a fantastic 4th of July. We hope all of our customers and partners enjoy this holiday with some good American summer fun.

Template Monster has severed its agreement with Ultravertex.com. Ultravertex.com, an image provider for webpage designers, had been a supplier of images for Template Monster clients for several years. That relationships were based on an agreement whereby Template Monster purchased an exclusive license from Ultravertex.com which entitled Template Monster customers to a free account.

In a very disappointing situation Ultravertex.com would not allow our customers to use their accounts to download graphic image files. Numerous complaints and requests to Ultravertex.com have gone unanswered, according to many Template Monster customers. The free accounts had been given to Template Monster customers as a bonus for making purchases.

Template Monster tried to investigate this situation but has received no response from Ultravertex.com. Template Monster was recently made aware of Ultravertex.com’s alleged misuse of images that they do not own. Because of this very serious situation, and Ultrvertex.com’s unwillingness to respond to Template Monster inquiries, we give notice to everyone involved that we have dissolved our agreement with Ultravertex.com and will not have any dealings with them.

“We are extremely upset with this situation,” says David Braun, CEO of Template Monster. “The free account with the image provider was a great bonus for our clients. Unfortunately, we have no other choice but to break off this partnership in order not to mislead our clients. We are very sorry about the situation but we do promise to provide a similar bonus for all of our clients as soon as possible.”

Template Monster made the decision to break off the agreement and believes the only solution to these issues is to go to court. Currently Template Monster has removed all the links to Ultravertex.com from the TM websites. And Template Monster strongly recommends to all of its clients not to use any images from Ultravertex.com.