Aahz Reviews Gilroy

Welcome to the third edition of Thursday Themesday here at Gilroy Review!

As is evident from even a cursory examination of my blogs I’m a big fan of three column WordPress themes.  I appreciate the fact that one can share so much more data in so much less space than a two column theme.  So imagine my excitement when I discovered Quadruple Blue by WPDesigner- a four column WordPress theme!

Now, the biggest drawback with three column themes is that they frequently appear overcrowded – there are simply too many different gadgets and widgets competing for your attention.  One would imagine this problem would be even worse with a four column theme. But, somehow, Quadruple Blue avoids this problem as the screenshot to the right (from Mostly Harmless by Brian Curd) shows.  Of course, no theme is bulletproof once the actual blogger gets hold of it.  Check the other two screenshots below for examples of more crowded uses of Quadruple Blue on iPentimento|Genealogy and More and HaloClix respectively.

The only real flaw I found with this theme was that the primary text container was too narrow to fit a banner ad in.  Not only would this be useful for monetizing the blog, but also simply for using larger images in your post as well.  Fortunately, as the HaloClix blog shows this can easily be changed just by modifying the CSS and it still remains a remarkably clean theme.

What you can’t see in these screenshots (since they focus on the top part of the blog) is that the two right sidebars actually “end”, leaving a “double-wide” white column below them which could effectively be used as a fifth (non-widgeted) column.  Oh, did I fail to mention that all three sidebars are fully widget enabled?  I’m telling you this is an absolutely brilliant theme.

Personally, I also think it’s a little too blue, but that is, of course, easily changeable in the CSS since it doesn’t actually use any internal images.  All you’d need to do is change the HTML color codes and voila – you’ve got a red, green, purple or whatever theme instead.  If you’re a fan of widgets, you seriously need to check out Quadruple Blue!

Tags: HaloClix, iPentimento, Mostly Harmless, Quadruple Blue, review, theme, Thursday Themesday, WordPress, WordPress themes, WPDesigner

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