Simple and minimalistic themes for websites

I liked this quote about Content vs Form

"There are a few content sites one could name that have a good deal of money behind them, but which no one reads because of their labyrinthine link structures and slow-loading graphics. All that effort in vain. What very few designers realize, particularly the younger ones, is that most people would rather read something -- actually read the words -- than look at all of their lines and arrows and silly pictures they've screened back.

More often than not, the designer's efforts are getting in the way. Worse, the editors above them, who should be protecting the text from such pollution, are eternally cowed into thinking that design is complicated and magical, far beyond their earthly knowledge, and thus they allow the words to be mangled and obscured"

I like minimalistic designs and so all my websites are very simple, but very people realize this . I am always getting offers to "beautify" my websites

I am always  looking for minimalistic themes for the following software:

Wordpress
SMF forum
phpBB
phpLD

but find it difficult to find any low graphics templates. "Good looking website" does not always translate to user friendly or good revenues.