Adam Zastawski

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Wild New Blog Engine Theme: Discovery

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I found this Discovery theme on www.freecsstemplates.org and I thought it would make a great BlogEngine theme. I think I am going to take a break from BlogEngine themes for a while (not too long ;-). I am really not a designer and I fear that I just don't have the patience to monkey around in CSS for a few hours just to find out my work only looks good in IE and not in FireFox.

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I have decided to put this theme out and then customize it for my blog. Here are some interesting notes about this theme:

  1. I thought it was too narrow so I widened it. To do so I needed to make the Cheetah picture longer. My Photoshop skillz are definitely lacking. I recommend you replace that picture with one of your own.
  2. The menu was originally styled incorrectly when viewed in FireFox so I noodled with the CSS until it worked. In doing so I learned two really interesting things about the IE Developer Toolbar witch I will share in a subsequent post.

You can download the theme here.

As always, if you have any problems, questions, or kudos, pass them along.

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Posted on: 1/27/2008 at 11:42 AM
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Jesse Foster us

Sunday, January 27, 2008 2:28 PM

Jesse Foster

Are you sure you aren't a designer?

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Monday, January 28, 2008 8:33 PM

Sam MacDonald

Hey Adam, another great theme for the blogengine.net community.

Adam us

Friday, February 01, 2008 5:25 PM

Adam

Bert from http://www.hondenwerk.xfakt.net notices a problem with this skin on the pages. The content section of the page is rendered with a CSS class that conflicts with the #page element. I will fix this very soon and upload the theme again.

I also found a problem with the spelling of BlogEngine in the footer.

Adam us

Sunday, February 03, 2008 12:12 PM

Adam

I fixed the Page bug that Bert pointed out and the spelling of BlogEngine.

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