A minimalist theme for the Pelican static blog generator: http://blog.getpelican.com/ It's based on the built-in simple theme with some small changes to the templates and some very minimalist CSS. Install like this: # pelican-themes -i mc-pelican Then, in your pelicanconf.py: THEME = 'mc-pelican' You add menu items with MENUITEMS like this: MENUITEMS = ( ('Homepage', '/mc/'), ('About MC', '/mc/bio.html'), ('Contact', '/mc/contact.html'), ('Archives', '{0}/archives.html'.format(SITEURL)), ) If you want a blog description in the footer of all pages, define DESCRIPTION. Happy blogging, MC.