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Shades of Gray

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Leslie Franke

Leslie Franke Leslie lives in northeast Ohio with his wife and dog. A ‘freakonomic’ and Braves fan (through the rotten years too), he has a love for Willie Wonka bottle caps.

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10 Comments

  1. J. D. Harper
    Posted August 4, 2007 at 4:33 pm | Permalink | Edit

    I thought having the one sidebar on the side and the other one on the bottom was a stroke of genius. Very nice work.

  2. Michael
    Posted August 4, 2007 at 8:35 pm | Permalink | Edit

    A clean, cool classic! Thanks Leslie Franke!

  3. Bill Suydam
    Posted August 5, 2007 at 2:44 pm | Permalink | Edit

    Very nice… I like the clean, simple (some would say minimalist) style of it.

  4. that girl again
    Posted August 5, 2007 at 3:15 pm | Permalink | Edit

    I can see this being picked up by wordpress.com; it has an elegant, professional feel which I think would prove popular.

  5. Scott
    Posted August 5, 2007 at 3:30 pm | Permalink | Edit

    Ew, now we can see the designer. Check out the readme.txt in this theme. Leslie had used a great source for his photo that I’m definitely going to use in future works.

  6. Chien Yee
    Posted August 7, 2007 at 10:36 am | Permalink | Edit

    Congrats!

  7. David
    Posted August 28, 2007 at 10:35 am | Permalink | Edit

    Like this a LOT!!! very well designed, clean and smooth as… shades of Cutline and Press Row… now for a 3 column version with content in middle, and I’d luvs-ya 4shore… ;-)

  8. Vapor Buff
    Posted October 12, 2007 at 11:38 pm | Permalink | Edit

    I really love this sandbox theme, thanks so much for making it. I’ve been tweaking it for a couple days on my vaporizer blog and it fits perfectly.

    You’ve got skillz!

  9. VaporBuff
    Posted October 13, 2007 at 4:06 am | Permalink | Edit

    Really liking this theme and how it splits the sidebar. I’m a bit of a wordpress noob, is there a tutorial on how to do the “quick bits” posts as shown in this themes live preview?

    Sorry if my last comment was considered as spam due to me linking my site with an anchor.

  10. miro slodki
    Posted October 24, 2007 at 11:24 am | Permalink | Edit

    Leslie

    I agree with David above

    this is a great design alos reminicent of ocean mist

    I am hunting for a 3 column version (with blog copy in the middle) - hint, hint, please please
    since Im a newbie I wouls alos love to ahev Wordpress pick up the 3 column as a template for their online folks.

    Cheers
    Miro

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