BlogCFC Redesign, Keeping it Red

September 18, 2007 · 7 Comments

Welcome to my blog, my re-designed blog! So, finally I get rid of that *mustard* colour, and back to my usual angry red, but fear not, I have added some rounded corners so you dont feel so angry when reading the post (clever eh? a red padded room) One of the things that I am thinking about is the fact that there are several things one has to do when simply changing the stylesheet of a blog:

Change some of the markup to match that of the new stylesheet (ok, it should be the other way round, but sometimes you need some magic for that two column thing)
Re-set your pods, which blogcfc has a handy manager for, if you create the /includes/pods/pods.xml file so it works
Add the textblogs for google tracking and adverts

Now, all of this does not seem too bad, but it actually means changing a bunch of files, that when the next version of BlogCFC comes along, you will lose. Anybody got any ideas how I can get round this? A while back (and lost in a harddrive somewhere) I did an addition to to blogcfc so that I could change stylesheets as a setting, would this be something people are interested in? As well as maybe a document to say what all the styles that are needed for blogCFC?

Tags: coldfusion · personal

7 responses so far ↓

1 Raymond Camden // Sep 22, 2008 at 4:13 PM

Mark, BlogCFC 6 will completely separate the design from the engine. Of course, it is still a long while out. :)
2 Andy J // Sep 22, 2008 at 4:13 PM

Looking good!
3 Dan Vega // Sep 22, 2008 at 4:13 PM

Looks great Mark!
4 Mike Kelp // Sep 22, 2008 at 4:13 PM

Nice work. Looks good!

Mike.
5 Phillip Senn // Sep 22, 2008 at 4:13 PM

I wrote a proof-of-concept using Ray's Kuler.cfc for my color swatch palette.
It worked for me but others have had trouble.
http://www.aacr9.com/index/coldfusion/kuler
6 Raymond Camden // Sep 22, 2008 at 4:13 PM

My CFC is throwing an error. Can you (PSenn) and I hook up to diagnose the issue?
7 Nick Tong // Sep 22, 2008 at 4:13 PM

Very nice Mr. D.

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