BlogEngine.NET: Creating Themes Webcast

CuriouslyGreen I thought it would be cool to put together a webcast to show the world how easy it is to make themes for BlogEngine.NET. 

In this 25 minute webcast, I'll walk you through everything you need to do to create a new theme for your blog.  Following my standard theme making process, I started with a template from oswd.org.  This time around, I'm converting a template called Curiously Green by NodeThirtyThree Design.  It is a nice theme to demonstrate with as it not super complex and yet has enough interesting parts to show off some of the neat things BlogEngine themes can do.

You can watch the webcast from this link.  It is a full screen 1024x768 webcast using flash.

Hopefully, it will be a useful aid in getting started in making themes.  In addition, preparing this webcast made me get my act together and finally finish the theme documentation out on the BlogEngine.NET wiki.  (Finish is too strong a word, but I've completed a pass through it and it is fairly complete and very useful at this stage.)

Lastly, in the webcast, I promised to make the theme available for download, so if you wanted to get a good look at the theme we did together, you can.  You can also feel free to use this theme for your site, if you'd like.

BlogEngine.NET Theme: Curiously Green

Update: Some people are having trouble with the webcast turning red about half way through.  I made a Windows Media version and it is available for download here.

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7/19/2007 9:03:27 PM #

Mads Kristensen

Really nice video. Thumbs up!

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7/19/2007 9:10:18 PM #

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7/20/2007 2:38:20 PM #

Henrik Stenbæk

Hi Al

Nice video.
I have tried to create a theme myself, based on EliteCircle 1.0 from www.styleshout.com. But I ran into trouble with the CSS file. BlogEngine.NET stopped responding when I added the CSS file (maybe something with the compress function), so I ended up giving it up. Is this something you has experienced to or is there something one needs to consider about how the CSS file is formatted?

Henrik Stenbæk Denmark |

7/20/2007 3:34:31 PM #

Mads Kristensen

BlogEngine.NET 1.0 locked the stylesheet file because of the compression handler. This has been fixed for the 1.1 release.

Mads Kristensen Denmark |

7/20/2007 6:03:07 PM #

Welbin

Thank you so much for the post.
But I met a problem when I saw the Webcast, all the screen became red when the video goes half.

Welbin People's Republic of China |

7/20/2007 6:22:27 PM #

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7/21/2007 11:45:45 AM #

Damien Guard

The screencast is corrupt for me too shortly after the half-way mark where the screen goes red and is unwatchable.

[)amien

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7/21/2007 7:18:01 PM #

Al Nyveldt

Hmmm.  I'm sorry some of you are having trouble with it.  It might be a memory issue, but I really don't know.  I made a WMV version available for download.  It is huge, but plays fine.

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