Now on Graffiti CMS 1.1 plus a new site theme: Embouteillage

Friday, November 07 2008 - Blog

Growing tired of the painful Yellow Hell theme, and being largely design challenged, I went on the hunt for a new site theme.  Searching via Google, I came across Brandon Schwartz' Graffiti CMS theme page and quickly decided that I was very fond of the Embouteillage theme.

I downloaded it, and made the following tweaks:

  • added ImageUrl to the theme - index and post views
  • changed web hosting in site footer
  • changed it to a 2-column theme: removed ads column and adjusted widths on remaining 2 columns
  • moved tagline in heading from H2
  • removed "Continue reading" from index view
  • changed the comment datetime stamp
  • added style for when the commenter is the post author
  • added gravatars to the comments
  • changed the comment style to add a silver box around the comment
  • added a tagcloud style

Overall I am pleased with the theme.  I was able to follow the same steps outlined here to update my site from Graffiti CMS 1.0 to Graffiti CMS 1.1.

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avatar #1 Josh wrote on November 08, 2008 at 8:04 PM

The comment form could use some breathing room, but this is much nicer than "Hell Yellow".

avatar #2 Curt C wrote on November 09, 2008 at 1:04 AM

Hey, does this mean someone will actually start watching the Grafitti forums? I've been using the app for a couple of months now (and really like it) but the support's been pretty sad...

admin avatar #3 Terri Morton wrote on November 09, 2008 at 9:18 AM

@Josh: Good call on the comment form, thanks! I've now increased the width. (Looks like some of the styles were living in a separate CSS file which was not included in the theme, so I've now moved them.)

@Curt: We're working on the situation for Graffiti and support in the forums. We had been resource constrained and we've been largely focused on CS and Evolution. I am pretty passionate about Graffiti and personally know many people such as yourself who are using it, so there's a good chance I will become the PM for the product. :-)

avatar #4 Jay Leask wrote on November 09, 2008 at 4:11 PM

Like, the official Product PM? That would be excellent news indeed Terri! I'd love to see Graffiti given just 25% the attention CS gets, it really has so much potential as an enterprise CMS.

avatar #5 Curt C wrote on November 09, 2008 at 4:13 PM

You the PM for Graffiti? That would be sweet. I hope so, providing of course you got the time/availability. I'll look for you in the forums :}

admin avatar #6 Terri Morton wrote on November 14, 2008 at 3:58 PM

So, it's official. I am indeed now the PM for Graffiti and couldn't be more pleased. We should be going public with the roadmap next week. You'll be seeing me around a lot. :-)

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