Hi Steve, I agree, there isn't much selection on the theme front yet, the product is still young. I paid $19 for a bind.pt theme. They've got a great customization tool, but I'm a developer, so of course I played with it for a few days, learned what I could and created my own. I focused on elegance and readability. You can check it out here. http://www.softwaresingularity.com/orchard/ Feed back is welcome (there's a feedback widget on the sight via uservoice.com) If someone wants to pay me to implement / customize it for them, I'd love to on the condition that I can open source the results. Orchard Team: Orchard is a great product. Keep up the good work! When your finished with it, please start on outlook re-write!!!
Dan Schlossberg Chief Software Craftsman www.softwaresingularity.com m: 678.361.6960 ________________________________ From: Richard Garside <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, April 25, 2011 8:03:48 AM Subject: Re: Thanks for joining orchard-discuss! Hi Steve, I'm not aware of any other source of module themes than the gallery. There are only 47 themes so far, which seems like a lot, but quite a lot of them seem very similar. I've not really looked around much though because I like to make my own. I've made two themes where I've done the design and an illustrator friend of mine has done the banners. My site: http://www.nogginbox.co.uk Sample site for Orchard Module contest: http://orchard06.webmatrix-appliedi.net/ You may notice that the both designs share a lot of common stuff, but that's sort of nice because it shows that they're related. Orchard ticks all my boxes as a developer and I think it will play a very important part in many of my projects. There are lots of varied modules being written, but I think it will probably be a little while longer till we get as many varied themes becoming available. -- Richard Garside Web developer and designer Old Broadcasting House, 148 Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, LS2 9EN. Web: www.nogginbox.co.uk Email: [email protected] Twitter: _richardg Skype: NogginBox On 25 April 2011 12:31, Steve Schofield <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Richard, > >Thank you for the response. John Papa and Scott Forsyth mentioned the module, >I >was able to export my existing blog (including comments) and import into the >Orchard instance. I can’t believe how easy the Orchard project has come >together. It’s meeting 2 items I’ve wanted to do literally for years. 1) >have >a content system that is easy to use 2) integrate my external blog to a single >domain. It’s interesting integrating files on disk with the Orchard >‘content >system’. It’s still a work in progress although the results look promising. > > >Are there additional themes you know of that are paid for? > >Thank you, > >Steve Schofield >Windows Server MVP - IIS >http://weblogs.asp.net/steveschofield > > > >From:[email protected] >[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Garside >Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 6:10 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Thanks for joining orchard-discuss! > >Hi, > >There are two ways to import blog content into Orchard. > >I used Nick's Blog ML module and this is great if you can get BlogML from your >current blog. It also gets all the comments. > >http://www.orchardproject.net/gallery/List/Modules/Orchard.Module.NGM.BlogML > > >You can also use the Orchard command line interface to get content from an RSS >feed like this: >blog import /Slug:<slug> /FeedUrl:<feed url> /Owner:<username> > Import all items from <feed url> into the blog at the specified <slug> > >I don't think that gets the comments though, so you're best of using the >BlogML >module if you can. > > >Best wishes, >-- >Richard Garside >Web developer and designer > >Old Broadcasting House, 148 Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, LS2 9EN. >Web: www.nogginbox.co.uk >Email: [email protected] >Twitter: _richardg >Skype: NogginBox > > >On 25 April 2011 02:49, Steve Schofield <[email protected]> wrote: >I'm looking to import my existing blog entries *and comments hopefully* to >Orchard. Is this possible? > >Existing blog is http://weblogs.asp.net/steveschofield > >Thank you, > >Steve Schofield >Windows Server MVP - IIS >http://weblogs.asp.net/steveschofield >--- You are currently subscribed to orchard-discuss as: [email protected]. To >unsubscribe send a blank email to >[email protected] > >You are currently subscribed to orchard-discuss as: >[email protected]. > >To unsubscribe send a blank email to >[email protected]. > --- You are currently subscribed to orchard-discuss as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected]. --- You are currently subscribed to orchard-discuss as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected].
