Frank Schulte-Ladbeck

A three columned green toned theme with a modern design feel

I had the time to do my touch ups on this one, so I decided to release it today as well. As a reminder, all of the themes that will be listed on this site will be geared towards small businesses, but with minor changes you could use them for a personal site.

Modern Green is another three column theme, but here I place the sidebars on each side of the content. To be honest, I have always chosen the content to be on the extreme left when I was looking for themes, but I wanted to try having certain navigation elements on the left. This was the theme that I was planning to use for this site (the original header was different). Some of my favorite blogs to read have this structure. After focusing on content, as a user my eye drifts to the right first, so items that I might click on would be there. Advertising on the right side of the screen does better than on the left or bottom when the site is geared to a user reading a Western language. More site navigational items go into a left sidebar. A user will look for the archives or maybe even a blogroll, so placing them on the left will be fine for a user who wants to discover those links.

The header comes before the menu navigation in this theme. My idea was to have a logo in the left hand corner with the title and slogan on the right. The logo would have contained contact information. With that setup, a new user would know where they are, who I am, and how to contact me upon first viewing. You can arrange this yourself by manipulating the header in a graphics editor, like GIMP, which I will write about soon.

My inspiration for this theme was the stately brochure or resume. Bright white backgrounds can be nice; dark black backgrounds are energy friendly for your monitor; however, I wanted the feel of the not so bright paper. (With the current theme of this site, I did go for a paper pattern in the background). I thought that this would be a good basic theme for a consultant.

I think that I might repeat this next statement for each theme, but the footer contains a setup for pages that a business may want. If you are using this for a personal blog, you will not need a “Terms of Service” page. Have fun with it.

Download Modern Green.

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