Frank Schulte-Ladbeck

Blue toned, three column theme with a white background

It has been some time since I released a free theme, or written about my efforts. Too many other projects. Hopefully I will have time to complete work on a customizable theme. This is a striaght forward theme design, hence the name from the Thelonius Monk piece.
    I noticed that as social media becomes more important to internet users, website owners have been looking for ways to tie in various accounts to their site. Blogs still have a place in this environment. They become the home base for business owners, which can bring their social media efforts together. This theme is no frills to meet the need of these businesses. The theme is designed for laptop screens (1000 pixels wide). The content is on the left side. The columns are in the center and the right. The menu has dropdown submenus. The menu style is more business website, rather than the typical flare associated with blogs. The blocks in the columns have a basic title with no fanfare.
    Why is this better for being your social media base? What I am seeing on my travels is that site owners are adding many images to their sidebars for various reasons. If the theme has a busy feeling, then more images will cause confusion to the user. Social media buttons can be placed in one column, along with typical blog items like an Archive or Blogroll section. What I also noticed was that most of these sites have a block for a sales pitch ad for an ebook or other main product. The point of stripping the theme down to bare essentials is to allow these other features shine.
    The header is 150pixels in height. I am imagining that this could be replaced by an image. I am planning on releasing a part two to this theme with the header split. Image for one side with social media buttons on the other side. This would leave more advertising room in the columns.
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