It’s not a secret that Fresh News is the most popular theme on WooThemes, and that it has been customized far beyond what I ever intended the theme to be when i first designed it. One of the best customizations of this theme came from GoMediaZine, who are experts in graphic design.

On Monday, one of the more popular web developer magazines, Think Vitamin, changed their look to… you guessed it… Fresh News! I was very pleased to see my design on such a popular site, which is produced by the incredible Carsonified, a world renowned web company who run great projects like Future Of Web Design conference, which I’ll hopefully be attending in London later this year.

Although I was pleased, I wasn’t shocked, as I’ve seen this growing trend a long time now. As discussed on the latest post on WooThemes, it is becoming very popular for web designers to use a template to cut production time and cost. This is one of the reasons that we are able to make WooThemes such a successful venture, and I think that more designers/bloggers/entrepreneurs have yet to discover this.

I did honestly think that Think Vitamin would customize Fresh News beyond the default look, but I understand that the focus is not on the uniqueness of the site, but more on the content.

So what do you think about this growing trend of using templates instead of building a site from the ground up? Have your say here or on the WooThemes blog post!

Anyways, the cancellation gave me some extra time to finish up Busy Bee, and it is now available over at WooThemes. According to the feedback I’ve gotten on my blog and on the official release post, it looks like the design is to most people’s liking, which I’m really thankful for. I tried to replicate all the things that has made Fresh News the most popular theme on WooThemes by far, so that is why I didn’t try to do anything experimental with this, but rather improve on both the design and the features available in the theme.

Check out the demo and grab a copy if you like it!