Could any of this be of some help to you? :
http://mail.google.com/mail/?hl=en&tab=wm#settings/themes
Just a suggestion...
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Mike Schwartz
Glendale  AZ
schwartz@acm.org

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Joseph Sinclair
<plug-discussion@stcaz.net>wrote:

> Look at the features in labs.  Some of what you want can be accomplished
> via the current labs options and simply minimizing sections in the left-hand
> column that you don't want (i.e. sign out of chat to make that section
> shrink to 3 lines).
> The couple bits not modifiable (like the Google navbar at the top) are
> probably going to remain no matter what.
> The web-clips (right above the message list) have always been optional,
> control them from the Web Clips tab in settings.
>
>
> Josef Lowder wrote:
> > Is there such a thing as a gmail customizing "front end" by which one
> > could modify the way one sees gmail?
> >
> > I'd like to be able to get rid of a bunch of what I consider clutter
> > so as to be able to see a more efficient display of just what I want
> > to see and not all the extra garbage (at least to me it's garbage).
> >
> > Here's a screen shot of what I see:
> > www.upquick.com/view/gmailclutter.jpg
> >
> > Here are the clutter elements I'd like to eliminate:
> > www.upquick.com/view/gmailexcess.jpg
> >
> > This is what it would look like with the clutter removed:
> > www.upquick.com/view/gmailcleanedup.jpg
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