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My New BlogCFC Skin

Posted At : June 18, 2008 8:47 AM | Posted By : Bob Silverberg
Related Categories: ColdFusion,BlogCFC,Personal

Now that I've started trying to blog more regularly, and now that some people are actually viewing my blog, I figured it was time to ditch the lovely BlogCFC vanilla skin and make things a bit prettier around here.

I was a bit intimidated at first, being very much a back-end developer and not having done much work with css in quite awhile. With a little moral support from Paul Marcotte, I found a css template that I liked at Styleshout.com, made a couple of changes to it, including getting rid of the wood in the background graphic (thanks Paul), and started making changes to BlogCFC templates.

A few hours later my blog was reborn. It was actually pretty easy to do, and I'm quite happy with the results.

I also replaced the stock photo that comes with the template with a slice from a photo that I took during a hike in Parque Nacional Torres del Paine in southern Chile in 2004. You can see the full photo here. I plan to rotate this image with others that I've taken on my travels.

I also took this opportunity to play with Slideshows in BlogCFC, setting one up which contains a few more photos from this trip. If you enjoy nice scenery and/or are interested in Chile, check it out via the link in the sidebar.

UPDATE:

My banner image now rotates hourly, so the link above may not actually point to a full version of the banner pic. It's still a nice photo, though.

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looks awesome, bob. nice job!

# Posted By charlie griefer | 6/18/08 9:00 AM

Bob.

The site looks great! I guess I'm going to have to step up with a new skin soon. ;)

# Posted By Paul Marcotte | 6/18/08 9:31 AM

Thanks guys! I think the time invested really paid off.

# Posted By Bob Silverberg | 6/18/08 11:15 AM

I plan to skin blogcfc as well. Did you integrate the styleshout css into blogcfc or visa versa? BTW, it looks great.

# Posted By Frank Wheatley | 9/4/08 8:07 AM

Thanks Frank. I extracted the styles from the styleshout css and incorporated them into the blogcfc css. I also had to change a number of other templates to deal with the layout. I didn't keep track of all of the changes that I made but I'd be happy to share the whole thing with you and then you could run a diff on it yourself.

Feel free to send me an email if you'd like the files.

# Posted By Bob Silverberg | 9/4/08 3:23 PM

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