However, in next few weeks, we would focus totally on template’s tutorial and documentation which would probably help you to achieve all standard template setup and basic customization to your liking.

Also, some of our quality Blogger templates might be transferred to Theme Craft for updates and supports.

We thank you for precious uses and supports of our Blogger templates, you can visit our established Blogger template ’s site, Theme Craft for more high quality Blogger templates daily and consistent template support.

6 Blogger templates on every 7 days

And now, as we want to contribute more Blogger templates to Blogger user, we are excited to announce that we would be publishing 6 brand new Blogger templates every week, which is 24 absolutely new Blogger templates for every month! If you are wishing to receive our newest Blogger template’s notification in the very first minute, you can subscribe Theme Craft’s post.

High quality Blogger templates

As far as you know, Theme Craft not only produces Blogger template, we produce high quality Blogger template. We score 100% and certified as Gold templates in Blogger Styles, and the most unique feature we have with our Blogger templates is, detailed color and font definition are installed in our every Blogger template, which also means that you can customize almost every color and font of our Blogger templates.

We thank you for Alvaris with help in many high quality Blogger templates, he works really hard in updating the template and coordinating the work. We also appreciate congratulations from Deluxe Templates through Blogger Styles’ email, a great encouragement for us!

Thank you, we continue to work the best

Last but the most, we want to thank you for all your frequent visit and support to Falcon Hive and Theme Craft. We appreciate your every lovely comment for our published Blogger template, and kind tone when it comes to template issue. We would continue to provide high quality Blogger template, while also working our best to provide adequate template support, thank you!

High quality Blogger template

As a group of template producers, we talk about quality, which BloggerStyles can probably prove for us. Theme Craft’s Blogger template is designed to meet all must-have and optional criteria like browser compatibility set by BloggerStyles, so it’s probably safe for you to use and enjoy.

We have also implemented highly customizable font and colors definition into the template, so you can customize entire layout’s font and color to your favorite style, customization convenience is one of our main priority!

Template issue and image hosting support

Though we promised an ever-improving template’s quality, Cloud and his friends are also working their best to support all issues come from their Blogger templates.

We also plan to pay for the Pro Photobucket account with unlimited bandwidth to host the template’s images, so you can enjoy our templates without facing the image hosting issue, feel the sincerity!

Join free membership for advantages

In Theme Craft, you can easily create a member account through the sidebar gadget. With the account, you can access to our site feature like saving your favorite Blogger templates, so you can reach to your desired Blogger templates’ page directly for download, demo viewing or commenting on the next time you visit Theme Craft!

We have also planned for some free giveaway for our members and feed subscribers in closest future, so please enjoy our free membership account with free advantages!

Falcon Hive + Theme Craft = More Free Premium Blogger templates!

It is totally great to say that Cloud’s team and our Falcon Hive’s team would continue to work our best to produce more Blogger templates for our lovely visitors and users to enjoy! Until now, we have received hundreds and hundreds thanks from our faithful template user.

I represent the whole team to express my sincere thanks to all of you, and also thanks for forgiving us while we cannot reach your issue in shortest time, we are doing our very best to improve it. Thanks again for your awesome comments, and it’s always the same, your enjoyment is our motivation, all the best to you and your blogging!

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Today, 23 August 2009, is the great day that Blogger has passed its first 10 years as a blog publishing service, which is currently the biggest blogging platform with millions of bloggers blogging 270,000 words on every minute of the day. It’s simply wonderful, and for me the more wonderful milestone is, I started my successful blogging career with Blogger.

Success with Blogger

A year ago, I was an internet beginner without any blogging and web design experience. I started my first blog, Falcon Ministry with Blogger, with the dream to contribute my life to internet. At that time I’m struggling to fit my blog into suitable Blogger template (just like you all), and surprisingly I fell in love with Blogger template design, then created many Blogger templates for bloggers to enjoy!

It was Blogger which gave me a great place to start my blogging and web design journey, and with Blogger I am able to succeed in founding successful blogs like chinese FalconMinistry.com and FalconHive.com. All I want to say to Blogger is, thank you, you made me a successful blogger and web designer! Happy 10th birthday Blogger!

New Decade, New Features

So our beloved Blogger would pass its 10 without anything great? Probably not. Great guys from Blogger has announced several new supports like PubSubHubBub support and Blogger’s Send to support in Google reader to help blogger boost their traffic from readers and social network.

That’s enough? Not, according to words below:

As we turn ten, we wanted to give you some presents to commemorate this milestone and thank you for letting us be part of your story. Over the next several weeks we will be releasing a number of new features on Blogger. Some presents are because you asked for them this spring.

So Blogger team promised to give you more wonderful features based on your suggestions! For what I know currently is, it’s cool, and you would definitely be amazed with coming new great features!

Thanks to Blogger, Blogger team, and all bloggers who enjoys FalconHive’s Blogger templates. What I love about blogging is we connect our life, memories and moments with each other’s blog, and thank you for using our Blogger templates as the house for your great memories.

Wishing all the very best to Blogger and you in next 10 years! :D

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Falcon Hive’s Blogger Blog is PR6

As you might know that we have shifted from Blogger to Wordpress days ago, we shall have a FalconHive’s Blogger blog remained in our Blogger account. For my surprise, the FalconHive’s Blogger blog has reached PR6 since months ago! It’s a great achievement for us, and we believe that our new Falcon Hive still got many areas to improve, until we reach PageRank 6 or more!

BloggerStyles is PR5

Also, my co-authored site, BloggerStyles, has been improved its PageRank from 4 to 5! It’s a great encouragement for us as we tried our best to keep the site better with more Blogger templates and template support.

Advertising Price is Same

Even our PageRank was increased, we would not increase our price for you to advertise on our site and Blogger templates. If you are interested about the offer, you can visit our advertising page and contact us for a better price or position.

Thanks again for your view and friendliest support, and I hope to hear your good news about PageRank!

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If you are the frequent and loyal reader to Falcon Hive, we are sure that you have noticed this: we have changed our platform and theme! Yes, we have made major changes to our hive for your better view and experience, let’s see what can you benefit from this new hive!

Better navigation system

With features available in the new theme, you can now navigate our articles more easily and clearly. We have placed our general pages like ‘About’ and ‘Contact Us’ on the top navigation menu, while putting the article category on the lower navigation menu with organized category and sub-category, which you can understand and navigate our articles and Blogger templates easier, enjoy!

Better archive system

We know you want to find all our latest and good articles in just one page. In the new Hive, you can find our latest articles in the ‘Latest News’ section, and other articles are categorized nicely in the ‘More News’ section, also with a ‘Popular All Time’ section to let you get our popular articles all the time. If you are still not satisfied with these, you can go to our ‘Archives’ page and find our all articles organized in category.

Better commenting system

You no longer need to suffer to find our answer for your comment. With the new commenting system, our answer for your comment is showed under your posted comment, you can just find your comment and see what we have replied to you!

We still love Blogger

Through our shifting to Wordpress platform, a new question arises in our community: ‘Why Falcon Hive shifted to Wordpress theme while developing better Blogger templates?’

My answer is that, our main goal is to provide you a better place to find and enjoy our article, and we believe that Wordpress is the better choice and solution for our needs.

Another main reason that causes our shift is our conversion skill are significantly improved when we first learned the Wordpress theme, and we believe that by learning more about Wordpress theme, we can develop and apply more professional features to Blogger templates. That’s what we want, we are still loving Blogger very, very much!

Our next steps to improve new hive

As bloggers and readers have reported issues about bad redirection to our new post url, we have recovered all post urls for your convenience.

Besides, we are sorry for current messy content, but we promise to optimize them in the following week for your better view and experience.

We also promise you to continue our blogger templates’ creation with our improving skill. Once again I want to express my thanks to our loyal reader and commentator, your words in site comment, Gmail chat and Facebook are very precious and encouraging to us, thank you and enjoy our new hive!

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In previous article, I have shared some tips for you to start business blog with Blogger. Today I’m going to tell how to choose the most suitable Blogger template for your business.

There’s some common requirements and consideration for you to choose your business Blogger template, study this post to get more tips and reference!

Common requirements for a business Blogger template

Blogger template for business blog is quite different with Blogger template for common blog, you need some special features to introduce your company, showcase your product and announce your recent move as well. Here are the common requirements for a business Blogger template:

Welcome Message or About section

Blog description is always not enough for your visitor to know about your business, you need to talk more about it. The Welcome Message or About section is useful for you to introduce your company with either its background or purpose, or any message you need to tell to your visitor and customer.

For the Welcome Message section, here are few Blogger templates for you to consider:

WP-Polaroid Blogger template by Eblog Templates

Business Talk Blogger template by Falcon Hive

Studio Press Blogger template by Girly Blogger

Featured Post section

To make customer purchases your product, you have to make it looks great at first sight. Featured post section comes with a purpose to make your product looks more professional and achieve the most attention on the first sight visitor arrived to your blog.

There are several types of featured post section available for you to showcase your featured product, which are Featured Content Glider, Featured Content Slider, Featured Video and Featured Photos section. Here are some Blogger templates with rich Featured Post section for you to consider:

SchemerMag Blogger template by Blogger Tricks

Zinmag Remedy Blogger template by Falcon Hive

Monezine Blogger template by CahayaBiru

Reminder: As most of the Featured Post section requires extension file like JavaScript, you need to find a free hosting site like FileAve to host your JavaScript file and setup the template with the JavaScript file link. You can find more information about finding and setup extension file for Blogger template in our previous JavaScript hosting  issue.

Ads section

Ads section is required according to the type of the business you own. In most time, business blog with topics about web design, online profit and web marketing relies heavily on ads section as their main source of income. However, if you are not going to make profit from your blog, you can probably ignore this section.

Types of ads section can be divided into Header ads, Post ads and Sidebar ads in most Blogger templates. Some Blogger templates like Magasin Seis has its ads section on unique position, which is right to the Featured Post section.

There are several Blogger templates with ads section installed on the right and clear position, and below are some Blogger templates for your good consideration:

Magasin Seis Blogger Template by Falcon Hive

Magasin Cuatro Blogger template by Falcon Hive

Revolution Church Blogger template by Bloganol

Navigation menu and search system

Navigation Menu is needed for your visitor to understand your site structure and access into some important page like ‘Contact Us’ or ‘Advertise with Us’ directly. Search section is critically required for reader to find the article or product information easier.

Extra Tips: If you are using a Blogger template with navigation menu installed, make sure every navigation link is configured. Leaving the empty link like ‘Sample Link’ would confuse your visitor to think your site is either under construction or incomplete, so your navigation link should be as many as you need but not as many as you can.

Basic browser compatibility

You have to know a truth- not every browser displays your chosen Blogger template properly. Unless you are using the official Blogger template by Blogger, you need to check the view of your chosen Blogger template on different browsers.

As there’s tons of browser available for the web surfing, we recommend you to check your chosen Blogger template on the Firefox RC3, Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8, as these browsers are majorly used in current time. You can also use the Browsershot to check the view of your chosen Blogger template in almost all browser with some simple clicks.

Proper functionality and template support

Proper functionality is the must for every Blogger blog especially business blog. As you are running a business blog, misalignment of welcome message, navigation menu or featured post section can drop your professional image and even customer’s trust on your product.

Please always test your chosen Blogger template before apply it to your running business blog, and seek template support to the author site. I recommend Blogger template from sites like Blogger Tricks, Cahaya Biru and Theme Lib as they provide high quality Blogger templates with serious concern about template fix and support.

You can check out the post, ‘Choosing your most suitable Blogger template‘ in BloggerStyles to get more tips about template functionality and support. For additional template issue or customization, you can seek the answer at professional and reliable Blogger site, BloggerBuster.

Final part- using custom service to optimize your business blog

After choosing the most suitable Blogger template for your business blog, you can start setup and optimization to make your business running well on the blog. However, most business blogger prefer to do customization with other web service to improve their blog function.

In the final part of this Business blog series, I would talk about using other service like Kontactr or Google Docs to optimize your business blog while maintaining low cost or modal. Be sure to stay tuned on FalconHive by RSS or email to get more tips and Blogger templates for your business blog, thanks!

It’s true! Our honorable Blogger team has finally give every user a chance to shout out our thoughts and probably ideas to improve the Blogger.

I personally thought this is one of the most excellent decision that Blogger has made, and let’s see what we can do to improve our Blogger!

Submit new feature and more for Blogger

Blogger team is really serious about this idea submitting event, they want all our ideas for different aspect. You can submit a new feature for Blogger platform, or a blog which you think is worthy for a note, or probably some exciting ideas for Blogger gadget! All you need to do is sign in your Google account, get into the product idea page then start to submit and vote ideas!

Great ideas from Blogger User

It’s really amazing that I signed into the vote page, and started casting my vote without even pausing a while to consider about the ideas, they are great! Below are some good ideas which I personally feel that they can benefit Blogger user:

“Blogger’s commenting system needs to improve. Something like threaded commenting with the ability to rank comments would be nice; also Gravatar support and a link to the last post by the blogger submitting the comment.”

“Wordpress style pages, so we don’t have to hide “About” or “Contact” “pages” in our blog archive.”

“Read more feature , to have the ability to split long posts after certain number of lines or words”

“Allow batch uploads of photos for a blog post, so you can add several at a time, go make coffee and then write all your text, rather than uploading them individually.”

“We need custom 404 pages! Please!”

“Built-in Related Post support for Blogger. When a visitor views a post page they should be able to see a section at the bottom that says “Related Posts” with a list of other similar pages.”

“A ‘Contact page’ with a form to send emails to the author (could be inluded into the Profile page).”

“Integrate latest technologies like Facebook Connect and Twitter Connect for commenting system.”

“The ability to have sub categories for a label. Something similar to the hierarchy system. For example Reviews>PC>Software or Reviews>XBOX360>Halo 3″

“In Gmail we have 7GB to store ours emails. Why we can´t have some 700MB to store ours scritps, .SWF, images from layout, .CSS and all of types of archives that we use to construct the blog?”

Suggestions from Alvaris Falcon

I have indeed posted any idea which I think is good for Blogger and its user. If you think it can really improve the Blogger, you can also vote for my ideas! Please note that these suggestions are not represented by FalconHive, as some of them are just my wild ideas. I have also concluded many user’s ideas into one idea, which is the sentence below:

“Make all the Wordpress feature available on Blogger!” (smile)

Sign in your Google account to start submit and vote ideas

You can submit and vote your ideas until Friday, 14 May to improve the Blogger! Do noted that some ideas have been repeated for several times, so you might need to search the important keyword before your submission to make sure that your idea has not yet submitted by others.

Blogger really needs your voice, please do tell me what’s the interesting idea you voted or submitted to Blogger, thanks!

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We all know that Blogger exists for better blogging, and as the template maker, FalconHive and other excellent sites has continually develop new feature for the Blogger template, professional business blogger can now start their business blog on the Blogger.

Let’s see what we should do before starting a business blog!

Before we share the tips, we need to define the term, ‘business blog’ as:

~A corporate tool for communicating with customers or employees to share knowledge and expertise. (About.com)

First of all- Decide your main purpose

Every great business starts with a purpose, and so is the business blog.

The purpose can be simply formed by an extremely easy question, ‘Why do I need to start this business blog’? You can take a paper to note down the all possible reason, and the advantage and disadvantage of starting this business blog.

You can consider the reason, advantage, disadvantage, targeted audience, expected growth and profit to form a strong purpose for your business blog. In often, this strong purpose would become your motivation to run the business blog for a long distance.

The beauty of the blogging is your purpose can be changed from time to time according to company’s need, but keep in mind that your purpose should be based on your business plan, not personal thoughts.

Extra tips- register and start your blog first

It’s ultimately important that a blog should exists for a long enough time, at least long enough for search engine like Google to index your site, and also the tracking site services to start register and track your website profile.

You would also need the site address to submit your site manually to the search engine like Google, and web information service like Alexa as well.

It’s an extra advantage, but noted that never try to put content that is unrelated to your future purpose and content, it would cause confusion and trouble for Search Engine and visitor to recognize your business website.

Step 2- Decide your template’s color scheme

Before you start any business blog, you should always have a draft in your mind that, how  your blog looks like, especially its color scheme.

We take the biggest company, Microsoft as the example. Microsoft has always used blue color as the main color in its branding, and even the newest software, Windows 7 has the blue circle behind its logo. In this case, Microsoft has implemented blue color scheme into its main website, which probably suits its identity and brand  to attract its million user group.

From the example we can know that, you can decide your template’s color scheme based on your logo design, company’s brand, or any color you think which suits your company’s identity very well, at least not your personal favorite color.

Step 3- Decide your audience

Most of the time, we start a  blog with no idea of our target audience, but the business blog must have a plan to decide and target the audience before its start. The main reason is, your audience decides your blog’s content.

Deciding your audience can be done by some questions like what do you expect from audience? Are they bring information, profit or just communication for you? Are they man or woman? Are they student or working class? You need to think as detail as possible, and create the content based on your targeted audience.

If you have successfully developed target audience, then keep publishing same content to attract more audience. You can then explore and try some new contents other than normal posts, probably some testimonials to build loyal user and customer.

In future post, we would discuss about how to choose suitable Blogger template for your business blog based on its compatibility, feature, support and so on. We would also provide a template list to help you find your preferred Blogger template, so be sure to subscribe our free RSS or subscribe through email, thanks!

Google has recently updated its Page Rank, and we have achieved a page rank 3!

It’s actually a good phenomenon for us, as we start the blog with lots of Search Engine Optimization challenge, but finally we get ranked in Google! It’s great to witness that Google has started to love us, and we even got a sitelink on Google Search, cheers!

First of all, let’s witness the sitelink!

You can find this sitelink by search the keyword, ‘FalconHive.com’. We haven’t got this sitelink displayed on the keyword, ‘FalconHive’, but we believe this is really the matter of time!

Your site should be listed highest on the keyword, ‘FalconHive’, why not?

Honestly, we start the blog without any knowledge about Search Engine Optimization, especially Blogger is seriously lack of Search Engine Optimization tutorial on the web. We fall into the Search Engine indexing issue in months ago, and the disease of  ‘duplicate meta description and title tag’ keep troubling us from entering the Google search engine ranking.

Across these months, we have tried many methods like h1 tags, meta description tags, meta robot tags, JavaScript comment code to solve all the possible issue that keep us out of the Search Engine ranking. With the combination of several useful methods, we have finally solved all major issues, and start getting our rank in Google search engine!

The good news is that, we have learned enough about Search Engine Optimization for Blogger, and our future of the search engine ranking is bright! Also, we want to share to you our Search Engine Optimization tip and experience for Blogger blog in both free and premium article, probably to help you rank better in search engine!

Thanks for all the sharer, subscriber, commentator and reader

As we said before, Falcon Hive cannot exist without your support. We want to express our thanks to every people who shares and spread our articles and templates across every social network, and all subscribers, commentators and readers who frequently or regularly visits and supports our site. We have several wonderful projects to be published on these April to June, so be sure to subscribe our free RSS feed to get all our latest Blogger templates and articles, thanks!