January 2008 - Posts

New Blog Theme

When I attended CSDC back in October, in the presentations was by Ben Tiedt and Wyatt Lyon Preul they said to make a new theme, start with an XHTML template and throw the CS controls into it to make your theme.  Since I'm not a designer, I googled "website template", went to the first result, and then picked one pretty much at random.  Then I did exactly what Ben and Wyatt said - I opened the default theme so I could copy and paste the CS controls out of it into my template.  It took only a few hours to get it done in the basic form.  I just had the time recently to get back to this theme, and another few hours later (tweaking small stuff), it is running on my blog.  The template is attached to this post if you want it.