Yeah... What Charllie said. The guts of Blog CFC are... well... CFC's. So there is a good separation of functionality and design, So all you *might* have to have to modify are the "views" (if anything at all). Most of Ray's views are laid out with div tags (I am going from a 2 year old memory here) so 95% of the design can be done entirely with CSS. The only table I ran into (I think) was with the calendar widget.
I am currently knee deep in a total site redesign. My first in years actually. I am finding out that if you define all the page elements using divs, spans and ID's you can pretty much re- skin a site with out touching a lick of (X)HTML. It is like MVC for graphic design. Total seperation of design and content (in theory). A lot of CMS's (Like Joomla and Drupal) take advantage of that and are skin-able by simply swapping out the views and CSS files. G! On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Charlie Griefer <[email protected]>wrote: > http://charlie.griefer.com is running blogCFC. there was some > customization > to the css and a few small tweaks to cfm files. > really, wanting to build your own blog application from scratch because you > don't care for the look/feel of what's available is (IMHO) a huge waste of > time. the engines are built, whether it's blogCFC or mango (the 2 reigning > champs of the CF world) or wordpress or others. you can skin 'em any way > you want to skin 'em. > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Chris Montgomery <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > Rick Faircloth said the following on 1/7/2009 4:09 PM: > > > Ray, how easy is it to customize the look of BlogCFC? > > > > > > Is it just a matter of editing the CSS, or do I have to work > > > with CFLayout, etc. > > > > I'm not Ray, but I customized BlogCFC much the same as Ray did on his > > site (using a template from styleshout.com). It took me several hours to > > customize, mostly integrating the new template CSS into the structure of > > BlogCFC. My server is still running CFMX 7 so I had no need to mess with > > CFLayout, either. I didn't use the calendar component in BlogCFC because > > it had some layout issues and wouldn't properly fit in the sidebar. I > > didn't have a lot of time to fool with it and just never went back to > > fix it. > > > > My blog is at http://www.jcmonty.com/index.cfm but I haven't blogged in > > awhile. I spend too much time fooling with the cats to get much > > productive work done these days. > > > > Off to trap a sick feral cat...... > > > > -- > > Best regards, > > > > Chris Montgomery > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:317570 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
