Frank Schulte-Ladbeck

A two columned theme with a green tone

This theme is named after the song by The Church. The song was more lush than this theme would suggest. I just like going back to listen to the Remote Luxury album when I am working in the evening.

Everyone is going green. Green is the new black. Many small businesses are showing off their green credentials to attract clients, and I am painting my house a shade of grey-green this week, so maybe that is why I chose these colors. I think that a clean looking theme in this color may be popular.

The header is de-emphasized in this theme, being a mere 100 pixels in height. When examining a few company websites, I noticed that they wanted to focus the user attention on the navigation or on a header below the navigation. In this design, the firm name can be placed in the header with room for a slogan. To bring the eye to the navigation bar, I changed the separator for the pages to an icon. This may not be the icon you will want though. I played with the thought that the pages in the navigation bar could be divided by the company icon, which could also be the flavicon. That might be too much, but I liked the look of giving space to each page title. Note: in the screenshot above, I do not have the icon separator in place. I am sticking with the drop down menus on the navigation bar, because I feel that these are easier for navigation.

The layout is also clean in the field below the navigation. No rounded corners to the page elements or other special effects. With the white background, I meant for the content on the pages to be shown off. The content could be a post or article, but I had a slightly different vision for this theme: showing a product image. Envision if you will an image indicating lamps. This image takes you to a page of different lamps. Choose the exterior lamps image to go to a page with those products. Navigation can be achieved through the bar, but the images would stand out on the page of this design. (Along with painting the house, my wife wants to redo our outdoor lighting, so it was on my mind).

A product site was the inspiration; however, a site with written content would work too. The idea is to have the elements recede while the important item, your product or content, to be emphasized.

As always: if using this theme for a personal blog, remove the pages listed in the footer, as those are meant for a business site.

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