Share template guidelines

The share template must be reviewed by one of FC2 staff members when users submit/apply a template.
Please see below on how to apply/submit a share template and review process.

Before submitting a template, please be sure you created, not the work of somebody else. According to FC2 blog's User Conduct in Terms of Use, Copyright of original template design belongs to the person who designed it.

The judging criteria for shared template are as follows:

Note: It is a general guideline, there might be difference in the way they are applied.

*Cannot contain any access analysis and counter tags.
Your template must not contain any tags for your own access analysis, counter, Google site map certification, and blog parts.

*Restriction on the number of external links: Cannot contain excessive commercial links

All material links will be verified for its existence and that they actually provide materials for websites.

Below are the backlinks that are allowed in the template design. Up to three links including those below.

• FC2 Blog (Applicant's blog)
• Other sites apart from FC2 blog (Applicant's own website)
• Site materials sources for the template

However, if the links that come in terms with those criterias below are found in your template design, you will not be approved for registration of your template design.

• Sites/Links that have no relevance to FC2 blog and/or commercial sites for advertising purpose.
• Entries that have no content but only advertisements (banner, AdSense, etc.)


• Purely for the purpose of SEO (the site's purpose being to increase the number of incoming links)

*How links are to be displayed?

Applicants who wish to link to your site must clearly state [design by ○○ ] or [template created by ○○ ]. The purpose is for other users to know who design it and easy to link to the designer's site.

Backlinks and advertising variable <%ad> links have to be distinguished clearly and seperated from [design by ○○ ] or [template created by ○○ ].

Image above is an example of incorrect format.

Cannot Use any Images From FC2 Templates
If your template contains images from FC2 templates, your template will not be approved. However, mobile template can employ decorated icon images from the individual server.
Please refrain from employing images that are not under FC2 blog control.
Images Employed in the Template Have to be Also Employed in Your Blog
Image format supports jpg/gif/png in the template. Please use images from the blog which you use to submit your template. Therefore, even if a designer possesses many blogs, he/she will not be able to use its own directory for images and submit for share template.
In addition, all other source materials (with approval for using) and linked images, also have to be uploaded to the blog in order to use them.

*【Exceptions】
If you use the contributed script directly as it is, the image which script originally includes is exceptionally allowed. For example, when you make a tree-like list, images can be part of the branch of the tree.

Designs that are similar to any existing templates will not be approved.

You may not modify any existing templates and submit as your own.

All advertisement must be located at the bottom of the blog.

For more information, please visit:
*About displaying ad (Currently only available in Japanese language).

For mobile phone, please use <%mob_ad> for mobile ad.

Before submitting, please make sure to check if your template functions properly in different browsers.

Since each user's computer displays may vary, the template may also be displayed differently. Therefore, please try and see your template in different operating systems (Mac and Win) and browsers (IE, FireFox, Opera, and Safari) to verify that your template will function properly with all browsers.

Check if you forgot to close any tags or any tag marks

Before submitting, please make sure to check not to dismiss any errors.

Using HTML checker can help you find errors in your template. W3C HTML Validation Service Another HTML-lint

Verify that other features (comment and etc...) are working properly.

Do not just check the design of the template but also check and see if other features are working in the template.

（Exception: The designer does not intend to employ that feature.)

Applicants who use adult topic blog or affiliate blog will not be accepted due to changes in our Terms of Use.

Setting favicon is prohibited

Specify its own favicon, the template will not be accepted.