When my hosting company complained about the server resources my blog was using, I went on search for a clean lite weight theme. I dint find any theme that matched my needs perfectly, then I decided to develop one on my own, that’s how SWIFT was born. He was named SWIFT because of his speed.
SWIFT was first developed for my personal use with no options page. I liked the final output of the theme, so I spent some extra time on it and added some basic options and released it with GPL license. It was received very well by the WordPress community, that motivated me to work on the theme harder and improve it further.
Thank you swiftler’s for your support and feedback, without you SWIFT wouldn’t have come this far.
About the Developer
Satish Gandham is a 23 year old web developer and WordPress lover from India. He was enrolled in 5 year bachelors degree in Chemistry @ Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in 2005. Soon he realized that chemistry was not his cup of tea so he went on to web design when he stumbled across a friends website. From then he created many websites on free hosting sites, then onto blogging.
His first blog was on wordpress.Com, it was scrapped as it violated their TOS. Then he bought his own domain name and started blogging at GeniusHackers.Com, from then he started several blogs few of them are
He is also the founder of BuddingBloggers.Com, a project that supports upcoming bloggers by providing free domain names and AD free hosting.
I Like to to see the swift theme in the row of Framework based theme competitors for Thesis. As thesis itself going to be Half GPL in coming days.. i expect swift to over take it soon
Cheers.
Another thought: it would be nice to have an option to change font and size on swift themes. I just think that the default font isn’t easy on the eyes. it could be just me.
Dear Sirs,
One thing that I would like to see become available with Swift themes is the ability to create “sub-themes” with different background graphics and colour schemes. This could be useful for applications like “seasonalising” your blog to suit particular occasions like Christmas or Valentine’s Day; “theming” your blog to work with a sponsor or campaign, amongst other things.
Another feature I would like to see is support for different outpht situations other than the desktop screen. For example, I would like to see a “mobile version” of the Swift Themes for use with handheld devices. At the moment, I am using the WordPress Mobile Pack which has a “desktop / mobile” switcher plugin and mobile themes to enable my blog to work with smartphones and handheld devices. As well, I am using a “print me” plug (WP-Print) as a way of allowing users to print articles with the whole page covered by the article. This one is important for whenever people need to print out articles as reference material.
Yours faithfully,
Simon Mackay
Hello Simon,
Thanks for the suggestions, I added them to my to do list.
You will see them in SWIFT very soon.