Hello Swiftler’s
I have started working on v5.0, and it’s coming out pretty well. The development process it little slow as I’m giving special attention to every minute aspect of the design.You can see the progress at http://swiftthemes.com/swiftTest
Though you wont notice any visual changes on the first glance, if you inspect it carefully you will see lot of improvements in design aspect apart from clean code.
SWIFT needs your ideas and suggestions
If you want some feature to be added in SWIFT or have a suggestion about design or usability please post it here.
If you have seen a blog with unique design,layout or features post it here, may be we can have it in SWIFT to.
I really need some ideas/inspiration on how to display author info,tags,related posts and social media icons at the end of the post.
Would you post a review of SWIFT on your blog?
I would like to release the v5.0 in style 
and I need your help for this. I will set an official release date of SWIFT and mail a copy of v5.0 to all those who are willing to post review of v5.o before the release date. You will have to publish your review on the release date.
See how each line of the paragraph is consistent with the grid, though we have headings and other HTML elements between. This is called vertical rhythm and makes it easy for your reader to quickly scan the page. ( This is one of the minute details I mentioned above)
add this code in custom css box, check rewrite custom-styles.css box and save changes
body { text-align:center; } .container_16,#header{ text-align:left; }
As you know SWIFT is my first theme, and there are some mistakes which i cant carry forward to the next version. So you may loose some settings. Most of the time I try my best to make the update compatible with previous versions.
You will not loose the settings when you upgrade to a sub version.
for example v4.1 to v4.3.
Good Luck with your site.
Hello Albert,
Thanks for the suggestions.
I used 960.gs framework upto version 4.0, I'm not using any framework in v5.0.
Frameworks reduce designers work considerably, but the problem with them is you will have to put in lot of code which you don't want and they take off flexibility.
All the code in v5.0 will be validated, you will have the author templates you asked for.
Rest of the suggestions are already implemented.
PS: Your comment was stuck in spam, so it wasn't published immediately.
Weather it's full screen or 960px width layout, the effective content area is the same. It's just a design and look factor.
In a full width header, just the header is expanded aligning the logo with main content area.
You are free to customize the theme.
I'm available for hire, I work both on hourly and contract basis.
http://swiftthemes.com/hire-me/
Thanks for the love :)
You can turn of the featured post feature without messing with the code.
In SWIFT options click on JavaScript tab and disable featured posts.
I think this says that, SWIFT needs a better user guide.
It's the best compliment SWIFT can get :D, v5.0 will be much much better.
If v5.0 is rated 8 on a 10 scale, the current version will get 5.