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Themeshift Overview
Themeshift is owned and developed by a German web designer and Wordpress expert, Simon Rimkus, who single-handedly manage the business. He takes care of the web layout and design of each Wordpress theme and he is also the one who handles customer support for the clients.
Theme Functionality
Themeshift themes are well structured and excellently coded that offer ease of installation and use. One of its unique features, not offered by most Wordpress theme providers, is the 3-language theme translation that allows you to translate content into English, German, or Spanish. Aside from that unique feature, the theme’s options page allows you to customize your site according to what color you prefer the site to have, as well as easy-to-use buttons to upload your company logo and pictures.
Moreover, Themeshift themes are equipped with useful features like multi-level dropdown menu, custom page templates, threaded comments, and search and comments form validation among many others. Some themes offer various color schemes, feature content slider that allows you to feature an important article and advanced widget areas just to name a few. All themes use CSS styles for Wordpress page navigation plugins. These are all excellent features that make customizing your website easier to do.
Theme Graphics
Most Themeshift themes have monotone-color designs. For those who want simplicity in their website in order to give more emphasis on its content, Themeshift themes are among the best choice.
However, in terms of overall assessment on Themeshift themes, there are not much graphical effects. All of them are generally single-colored themes unlike Alohathemes which are generally multi-colored with lots of color accents. Nevertheless, theme graphics offered by Themeshift have high resolution and they are generally good.
The headers are very simple; in fact most of the themes have headers that fully blend with the background color with not much accent to the website. The fonts used are generally classic and unique. However, they are not bold and large enough to emphasize the main title of the website. Themeshift presently offers 8 different professional premium themes for you to select as of July 2010, plus one theme offered for free.
Themes developed by Themeshift
Theme Pricing- base on July 2010 data
Themeshift premium themes are priced in Euros and not in US dollars as in the case of most premium Wordpress theme providers. Each theme costs 39 € per piece. This is quite affordable and more economical compared to the theme pricing of Press75 at $75 per theme and Modthemes at $70 per piece. However, unlike the aforesaid two competitors that offer premium packages, Themeshift do not have an all-in-one package that gives you access to all themes. This means that there is no bulk discount offer since the price is fixed regardless of the number of themes that you ordered.
Theme Support
Customer support offered by Themeshift for its customers is unique. Since you can post your questions using either one of the offered languages, you may ask questions in German, Spanish, and English. Support is given through the support forum, which is personally moderated by Simon. When Simon is out of town for some business and personal travels, support may be delayed.
Summary
Themeshift is ideal for Europeans who need support in either English, Spanish and German. It is also recommended for those who want a simple design for their website as well as those who want to purchase only one theme.
For those who have numerous websites, Themeshift is not ideal considering that the company have limited designs to choose from and they have no bulk discounts offered to make your theme purchase more affordable.
Theme License
100% GPL for CSS, XHTML, PHP, design and any other elements.
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I love the elegance of the Themeshift themes. When I was looking for a theme, I was really put off by the frenetic themes offered by so many of the designers out there, and it was such a relief to come across Simon’s portfolio of themes, which didn’t make my blood pressure rise and my eyes water just looking at them. Maybe it’s a cultural thing – when I first came across Themeshift, I immediately thought, “oh, this must be a European designer.”
Simon has been very patient with our requests for help in customising the theme, and I’m really happy with the way the site has turned out.
Life is full of color and Themesift themes are not. Available in monotone designs, I thought there was something wrong with my monitor.
No sense adjusting the settings there, come on, it’s not my monitor’s fault.
If you’re in a business where wowing your customers is vital, I suggest to pass up the themes offered by TS.
Most of their themes are drab and monochrome and the graphics are not that high resolution to be inspiring to customers to stay awhile and shop.
What do you get with Themeshift templates? Features, that’s what, heaps and heaps of user-friendly features that give you control over the content you have on your website.
Aside from getting to translate content to other languages, I have threaded comments and custom page templates to work with.
“Easy peasy Japanesey”
Working with WP themes, I found that installation can be pretty complicated.
Themeshift surpasses expectations in this regard. Not only are their themes easy to use, they’re also easy to install. My website is up faster than expected.
Attention grabbing, that’s what I was looking for in WP themes.
I needed a website that had so much going on, people stop to look.
I guess I should’ve shifted when I saw Themeshift, totally uninteresting and boring.
“STAR QUALITY”
Have a great personality and you want it to shine through in your wordpress template? THEMESHIFT lets you do just that. For some themes I got where I didn’t like the color, it was easy for me to change.
My business is one where I need to reach people who don’t speak English in order to be successful. Themeshift themes are the only themes I found that provides for themes with content that can be translated into Spanish and German. Thank you, Themeshift for covering the language barrier.
I love Simon Rimkus’ expertise when it comes to WP themes which make it a lot easier for me to design and manage my website. Theme Shift has the most well structured WP themes I had ever seen in the industry which made them an instant choice in my WP theme needs for my website. You won‘t have a problem at all and everything on your site will be smoothly running with their excellently coded themes, good job Simon!