New Skin, thanks to Jesse...

Posted Saturday, May 31, 2003 9:16 AM by G Andrew Duthie

Jesse Ezell came up with a fairly clever way to add new styles to the .NET Weblogs without having access to the source code, by dint of a bit of javascript inserted in the news section that removes the stylesheets selected in configuration, and replaces it with a stylesheet specified by URL. Jesse's post on the subject includes instructions (in the comments) on how to take advantage of this technique.

Borrowing on Jesse's idea, I've added a modified stylesheet to my blog to give it a more unique look. Hopefully, it's also fairly easy on the eyes. Alas, the stylesheet doesn't seem to be friendly with Netscape 6.x, but then neither was the original stylesheet I was using, so I guess I'm no worse off. If you're using a browser other than IE, and the styles seem off to you, please let me know in the comments. Below is what the site should look like.

A Blog For Graymad - New Style
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Saturday, May 31, 2003 9:16 AM by TrackBack

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# re: New Skin, thanks to Jesse...

Saturday, May 31, 2003 11:22 AM by Paul Gielens

As did I, looks nice!

# re: New Skin, thanks to Jesse...

Saturday, May 31, 2003 12:21 PM by Xander

I'm using Mozilla Firebird 0.6, and the nav bar moves around a bit.

It doesn't look bad though...When it's not lined up perfectly, it actually gives it kind of a cool geometry.

Very nice.

# re: New Skin, thanks to Jesse...

Saturday, May 31, 2003 1:55 PM by Douglas Reilly

Hmm. I am not seeing the new skin. Odd...

# re: New Skin, thanks to Jesse...

Saturday, May 31, 2003 1:56 PM by Douglas Reilly

By the way, using IE 6.0 on Win2K3...

# re: New Skin, thanks to Jesse...

Saturday, May 31, 2003 5:02 PM by Douglas Reilly

By the way, yet another reason using WIndows 2k3 on ones workstation can be problematic. It was the way security was set up that prevented the new stylesheet from being loaded. Turns out that the old URL for GAD's WebLog was in my trusted list, but not the new beblogs.asp.net link...

# re: New Skin, thanks to Jesse...

Sunday, June 01, 2003 9:25 PM by Wes

Andrew, I like your style sheet. Is it ok if I use it on my weblog?

Wes

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