I've updated the look and feel to my blog again. The design is called "refresh" and comes from StyyleShout.com, the same guys who provided the design for ColdFusionBloggers.org. Check out their site as they have some wicked cool (sorry - trying to sound young) free designs.
FYI, I'm aware that my site is a bit borked in IE7 and Safari. The Refresh template works in IE7 on their site, so I'm sure I just made a small mistake somewhere. I'll try to fix that today.
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Love the new look Ray.
CSS is not one of my strong points but I'm just wondering if you'd care to share any tips or tricks for implementing a new CSS template into BlogCFC.
Thanks.
It is a real pain in the butt unfortunately. I took the template and just updated layout.cfm and index.cfm mainly. I had to tweak the pods a bit as well.
The _main_ feature of BlogCFC V6 is to make it easier to skin.
Like the new look, Ray, nice and clean.
I recently updated the look of my BlogCFC-based site, but I think I've missed/broken a couple of bits. Still needs some work - but I'm more a CSSer than a CFer at the mo... Trying to change that :)
@Ray,
Glad to hear that about V6, I couldn't beleive how hard it was to customize the layout.
PS: Site looked fine to me on IE7 Vista.
Looks great in Opera too, Ray :)
(It kinda surprises me how high % of the few pages that have issues in Opera are made by CF bloggers and developers)
@Dale - I fixed (I think) the IE issue a few hours ago. It wasn't IE per se, but bad HTML that Firefox ignored.
@Tomas - To be fair, I didn't make this at all. StyleShout.com did. My design skills are the suck.
@Ray,
Can I suggest that no one is running less that 1024x768 these days, and that a wider version of your nice new layout would be even better.
The stats of learncf tell me that roughly 0.24% of people are on 800 x 600
http://learncf.com/stats.cfm
Hi Ray,
those colors remind me of the good old CF4 days :)
Dale - Yes, I want the site to be a bit wider as well. I'm going to play with it a bit later. I tried when I was pushing. I noticed that the right col was a % and the left wasn't speced and there was a full width set. So I need - I think - to set the left width to a firm # and increase the total width overall.
If you want to edit the CSS and send it to me - I won't say no. ;)
This blog layout is sick! (Used to mean aweful but now it means awesome--who knew lol)
Looks great in Safari 3 on OSX.
I wish it was wider.
I've got top people on that now Nick.
Top people.
Updated to be wider. I put it on a pure-carb diet.
Nice,
I now just think you need the coldfusionjedi top left to be a graphic so that it's not all grainy.
I am wondering if it is possible to share with us the new layout.cfm and index.cfm files and any other steps you took to get the new look
My site isn't a great version of BlogCFC as it has multiple versions spread throughout. You would be better off working with a virgin copy of blogcfc.