CFInsider gets a new look and feel!

Posted At : October 13, 2007 11:16 AM | Posted By : Jason Delmore
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I wanted to get rid of the default BlogCFC look and feel. The default is what I've come to call, the "Golden Banana". It was specifically designed to make you hate your blog. :)

I was chatting with Ray Camden, BlogCFC creator and self proclaimed CF Jedi... Ray earned the title actually :)... and I found out this. His site has been heavily modified from the standard BlogCFC... so if you try to steal his CSS for a template (as I did), it will get you NOWHERE! I was hoping to steal someone's template and make the necessary adjustments... ultimately, I did use the CSS from Fancy Bread and an open source template by Studio7Designs (for the header portion)... and then modified the hell out of them. (By the way, I couldn't find contact info for Fancy Bread... I hope you don't mind that I swiped your CSS...) :)

After tinkering with CSS and images until the wee hours of the night... I have dreamweaved and fireworked my way into a site I can live with.

I also upgraded to BlogCFC 5.9 while I was at it. And from what I hear from Ray BlogCFC 6.0 is meant to take care of my gripes about CSS, Skins, etc. :)

Again, thanks Ray for your continued hard work for the CF Community!

Feel free to tell me you love or hate the new design. ;) And please let me know if it looks wonky in your browser! I spent a good 2-3 hours just getting it to lay out properly in Firefox and IE (stupid box model... and IE specific margins and padding.) So it should look good in modern browsers, but if not, please let me know.

;)

Cheers,
Jason

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John C. Bland II's Gravatar hahaha...nice Jason! :-) LMBO @ golden banana. ;-)

My son (2 yrs) even likes this design. He called it "merna" (regarding the simpson-like you up top; whatever that means). :-)

Everything lines up fine in IE 7, Firefox 2+ and Flock.
# Posted By John C. Bland II | 10/13/07 12:08 PM
Sean Corfield's Gravatar "Welcome to the personal blog Jason Delmore"... of? :)
# Posted By Sean Corfield | 10/14/07 4:59 AM
Brian Rinaldi's Gravatar Looks good! Btw Fancy Bread is Paul Marcotte, out of Vancouver (if I remember the location correct) and a very nice guy.
# Posted By Brian Rinaldi | 10/14/07 8:33 AM
Paul Marcotte's Gravatar @Jason No sweat on the CSS stuff. Glad you found it useful. I've upgraded to blogCFC 5.9 as well, so folks can contact me now!

@Brian Awww shucks! Your flattery will get you a beer, if we get a chance to meet at a con. some time... ;)
# Posted By Paul Marcotte | 10/14/07 6:08 PM
Jason's Gravatar @Sean - Ooops! Fixed now.

@Paul - Thanks! I liked your font selection... and since you were on the same version of BlogCFC, it made everything easier. ;)

Now... I still seem to be having issues with my "comments" input field... better check to see that my custom CSS isn't overwriting something there... :
# Posted By Jason | 10/14/07 11:02 PM
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