dfMarine – new theme for BlogEngine

23. December 2008 22:34 by rtur.net in Themes // Tags: blogengine, theme, theme // Comments (8)

With Christmas just around the corner I wanted to share something good with BE community to keep the spirit alive :) I hope you’ll like this new theme, it is widgets ready and should work fine with BE 1.4 and up. I think I covered all (or almost all) widgets in CSS, so it should look decent with your site out of the box. One thing I left out is accordion for side bar – all those widgets on the right should slide up and down on title click. Mostly because I want to finally get into jQuery and this is as good reason for me as any to get started, so I’ll upgrade it to accordion when I’ll become proficient enough with this JavaScript library.

While working on this theme, I read about new MVC design gallery and thought “wouldn’t it bee cool to have something like this for BE community”? So, not to waist opportunity, I created my own Wish List of BlogEngine improvements for the next year.

Community Exchange - site, just as that gallery thing – but better ;) What I want most out of it – self publishing for any piece of code that can run on top of BlogEngine.
Web service that would glue every BE blog and this community site in many interesting ways.
Ability to install/uninstall plug-ins from administration console, kind of like you can install modules in DotnetNuke (lower sound volume before clicking the link, it’ll start movie on the page).
Be able to upgrade to the next version by clicking “upgrade” button in the admin menu.

May be I’m a little over the top here, but well, it’s all up to Santa now :)

Test drive dfMarine for BlogEngine

Download dfMarine.zip (84.07 kb)

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Comments (8) -

Marwan
12/24/2008 6:57:01 AM #

thanks for this great theme.
a part of your wish is accomplished :), my site themes4blogengine.net is a place to share themes and widgets for Blogengine.NET.
I am working hard on it now to change its layout and add many featurs to it, it will be ready soon.

rtur.net
12/24/2008 2:10:52 PM #

See - Santa does exist after all :)
Marwan, did you consider self-publishing? What I mean is - anybody can create account on your site and publish theme or widget. Ideally I would like to be able just say "share this theme" from within BlogEngine and get it pushed to shared site, but having an account for publishing themes etc. would be a good first step.

Marwan
12/24/2008 4:27:54 PM #

I wish I can do this, but I think it needs a lot of customization in the code.

currently there are 2 editors in my site ; Janko and me, a third editor will join us and I would be happy if you become the forth.

Currently I am doing some customization on the site to make it easier to add themes and widgets in few steps from the controle panel.
may be I can add a registration form to allow users to subribe and add their own themes and widgets.
if you can help in this, please inform me.

rtur.net
12/25/2008 2:02:55 PM #

if you can help in this, please inform me
Sounds like fun, I'll be happy to help. I'll send you email so we can coordinate our work and discuss details.

Juan Manuel
12/30/2008 8:41:01 AM #

I liked the idea of linking blogs... maybe we could use the semantic web somehow?

I tried to start something here(*) but left it unfinished and not really knowing where I was going =P

(*): http://www.juanformoso.com.ar/page/endpoint.aspx

rtur.net
1/8/2009 11:09:04 PM #

@Juan, semantics are great but I don't think it will fit into scenario I'm thinking about. We'll see how it goes.

Roman D. Clarkson
1/15/2009 1:27:04 PM #

I like your wish list. When I was on the team I gave Mads some of these same ideas. Particularly, the semantic connectivity. In essence, blogengine would become a blog web ring. I am a big DotNetNuke fan and developer. I know exactly what you are talking about. I have been contemplating integrating my blog with Facebook to avoid the redundancies. Any thoughts on that?

rtur.net
1/16/2009 10:15:55 AM #

Roman, semantic connectivity is very interesting but I'm not much involved in that part of the project, as you might know we have sort of separation of concerns ;) I'l let John Dyer to take care of it. Facebook APIs, on the other hand, is something I'm hoping to get into in the near future.

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