ThomasBosscher - January 28, 2008 07:01

Name: StableStart-Black
Author: Thomas A. Bosscher
Compatibility: BlogEngine.Net 1.3
Tested with: Firefox 2.0x - Netscape 9.0x - Opera 9.2x - IE 7.0x

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StabelStart (Black) is the theme currently being used on this website. The default download includes every feature I could find from the dotnetblogengine wikki. Categories, Page List, Calendar, Search, Tag Cloud, Blog Roll, Authors, Month List, Recent Posts, Recent Comments and then a banner section I added myself to place images.

  

 

Header Images:
The header has four images which are acutally seperate image files called: image1.gif, image2.gif, image3.gif and image4.gif. To change these images, simply copy over a 80x100 pixel piture to the theme fodler with the same names of image(x).gif. This allows you to modify the header without having to change the entire image.

Remove Options: 
If you would like to remove a feature from the blog like the authors list on the sidebar, you can simply open the site.master file in notepad and make any modifications where needed:

Example: ( I do not want to list the authors menu on the left)

  1. Open the site.master file with notepad
  2. Find the <div> for Authors
  3. Add "<!--" before the opening div tag and "-->" after the closing dim tags

Code before:


            <div id="authors">
                <h3>Authors</h3>
                <blog:AuthorList ID="AuthorList" runat="Server" />
            </div>

Code After:


            <!--
            <div id="authors">
                <h3>Authors</h3>
                <blog:AuthorList ID="AuthorList" runat="Server" />
            </div>
            -->


By commenting out the code you leave the option to use this option later if you like.

I will continue to try and improve on this theme as I will be using it as my default for now. Any updates I will post to this website. If I modify anything else outside of the core files I will also try and document that process as well. Please post any comments you may have as I would love to hear what you think of my first them for BlogEngine.Net.

Have a great day! Cool 


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January 28. 2008 07:35
Thomas Boscher
This is a comment to the website to test the comment style of the StableStart (Black) theme.


ca Dusan 
January 28. 2008 10:01
Dusan
Congrats!
Very nice and clean look, good theme.
Could you, please elaborate on the module you mentioned as your own, BANNERS.

What is the idea behind it?

Thanks

Dusan
Toronto, Canada


January 29. 2008 00:13
Thomas Boscher
The banners section if just a <div> tag that I used to place banner images. This is not a module but rather a space I used to keep with the theme. If you look in the site.master file with notpad you will find a section that looks like this:

<div id="banners">
<h3>Banners</h3>
<a ref=""><asp:Image ID="" runat="" ImageUrl="" /></a>
</div>

If you wanted to add another banner image you would then copy the line:

<a ref=""><asp:Image ID="" runat="" ImageUrl="" /></a>

and paste it right below with you own image to display.


January 29. 2008 03:49
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ir Touradg 
January 29. 2008 16:24
Touradg
Hi
Very nice theme.Simple,Spacious,Fast and still beautiful.I was looking for such theme for a long time.Thanks


January 30. 2008 09:36
Henry
I really like the theme. I am having a problem though regarding performance. It seems that after sometime passes it takes a long time for the site to load then it responds quickly. It is almost like it is recompiling the pages if I haven't accessed it in 30 mins or so. I am not sure if it specific to your theme, BE.NET, or my host discountasp.net. I am leaning towards a dicountasp.net but was curious if anyone else had this problem.
Thanks and very nice work. ~ Henry

P.S.
I am adding the lightbox functionality to the images on the banner (just for kicks) if you are interested let me know.


January 30. 2008 11:06
ThomasBosscher
Henry, I noticed that your first image (image1) is 164k in size. This may be some of the lag that you are experiencing. The four images you have in the header total 200k in size. I have not noticed a consistent lag on my site with this theme. I would start with reducing those image sizes first. I think that will help.


January 30. 2008 21:37
henry
Thomas,
I think you were dead on about the image size being the problem. I have to try a couple more test but I am so glad you found that because it would have taken me months if not longer to find that little problem. I think I pointed to the wrong image when I was implementing the light box part. Thanks again.

If you are interested here is the changes I did for the lightbox extension to work...
If the site.master modify the divs for the images to
<div id="headimg1"><a href="themes/stablestart-Black/images/image1.jpg" rel="lightbox" title="view image"></a></div>
<div id="headimg2"><a href="themes/stablestart-Black/images/image1.jpg" rel="lightbox" title="view image"></a></div>

In the css file add references to the a and a:hover
#headimg1 a {
border : 1px solid #cccccc;
height : 100px;
width : 80px;
float : left;
margin : 8px;
background : transparent url('images/image1.gif') no-repeat;
}
#headimg1 a:hover{
border : 1px solid #FFFF66;
height : 100px;
width : 80px;
float : left;
margin : 8px;
background-position:center;
}



April 4. 2008 12:23
Roy
Thomas,

Thought you might like to see a adaptation of your theme I did for my site, browse to www.rhhale.us.

And of course I left credit for you in the footer. Smile

Take Care, Great Theme!


May 2. 2008 00:52
Adrian
Howdy Thomas - just thought I would let you know that I have used your theme, with only a few modifications.

Site is Http://tacticalstudiesrules.net

Nice work.

Thanks. Adrian.

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