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New Skin
Took a little enginuity and unconventional thinking...but I
made my own skin (got tired of the plain old look). I wish
there was a built in way to do this with the .netweblogs
config stuff... but till then, I have my own solution :-).
16 Comments
Cool. How did you do it? Include CSS in the Links
section or something??
I spotted a <style> element in the News
section ;-)
View source on the page for the details. You need to
first remove all the style info w/ javascript, and then
put in your own style tag.
Mozilla probably junks up on the remove style
stuff...but this is dotnetweblogs anyway, not linux
weblogs ;-).
Good stuff Jesse! Can i "Borrow" your
skin to my blog?
btw, If you go to
Admin->Configuration->Skin and select
"CandidBlue" you get pretty much the
same skin. Just found this out .. :)
Uhm..
1. I'm using windows, mozilla has a windows client,
multiple OS? crazy talk! Are you telling me because I
choose to use a different browser I can't learn .NET?
2. Yes, mozilla junks up on the remove styles because
you're using a proprietary IE function, ie, none
standard. You shouldn't haveto remove styles anyway,
they're called cascading for a reason. All you need to
do is overwrite them in the last loaded CSS sheet in the
document.
3. Style tags go in the header, its illegal to have them
in the body of a webpage.
PS, It's "Ingenuity"
Forget what I said about selecting a link from the Admin
Skin combo - it breaks the site...
Well, I guess standard's compliance is possible after
all :-). How does it look?
Ah. This is much better!!! Good work :) Thanks Dan for
your help , and jesse for the great Idea
Nice job, Jesse. I've "borrowed" your
style sheet as well. As time permits, I'll probably
update to use my own CSS.
Clever idea. Of course, we know what happens if
Javascript is disabled. :-)
If you're using the javascript I pasted, if its disabled
then the site will just degrade gracefully to the old
stylesheet :-)
This is great - many thanks Jesse. BTW - seems to
display beautifully in Mozilla 1.3.1
Just playing with this 'approach' - for the being I will
also borrow your CSS ... Thanks!
BTW, did anybody find a solution of CSS'ing the
"printer friendly" page? This still
has the default look. Thanks.
Someone did.... don't remember who...
Do you think you will remember? Just wondering ...