Chris Jordan's Blog

So my mother asked me to write some kind of site for her where she could maintain family photo galleries. Since I was already familiar with Mango Blog, I decided that it, along with the Memento Photo Gallery plugin seemed to be the easiest solution. However, I couldn't find any themes for Mango Blog that really fit my Mom's personality. So I've made one. I grabbed an open source blog template, and began converting it using both the "Cutline" and "Fusion" themes as my templates.

While the work is not completely done (Comments still don't work, and pages that have child pages don't yet work either), it's basically complete, and I thought I'd show my support for Mango Blog by posting my work thus far here, and allow folks to download the theme for their own use or tinkering.

This is my first Mango Blog theme, so I'm sure I've made some mistakes. If you find any, let me know. Of course, I'll keep working on the theme to keep making it better and more complete. I'm not a CSS guru by any stretch, so if you see any way that something was done that could be done better. Let me know. Most of the CSS is not mine. I've just adapted what I downloaded.

I've had a bit of fun doing this conversion, and I've already downloaded several other open source blog templates that I'd like to convert. I will post those as I complete them.

Cheers and happy blogging! :)

This release contains a small change to the DateFormat() function.

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I have updated the CFJS function listing page. There is a link to it in the sidebar on the right -- or just click here. My goal will be to update that page as often as necessary and then post a quick blog note (like this one) alerting folks to the update. Overkill? Maybe... but I'm havin' fun. :)

Just a quick note to let folks know that all branches of CFJS (both jQuery and non-jQuery) have been updated with a bug fix for two of the list functions, namely ListContains() and ListContainsNoCase()

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So, I’ve been upgrading my blog to the latest and greatest version of blogcfc, getting all my styles back the way I used to have them, and swearing to myself that I will blog more often.

One thing I think would help me with that last bit is the use of some sort of WYSIWYG blog editor. I just really don’t like the blog editor in the admin of blogcfc. I’m still trying to make up my mind between Windows Live Writer and ScribeFire. Live Writer seems to have more bells and whistles when it comes to inserting photos into my blog entries, and for that right now I’m going with it over ScribeFire.

But, I’ve been having some problems getting Live Writer to work. For some reason, I get these blasted ‘500 Internal Server Error’ messages.

 

Upgrading my version of blogcfc which contained some fixes to the xmlrpc code was supposed to fix this I thought, but so far it hasn’t seemed to do the trick.

The strange thing is that despite getting this error… if I go to my blog and refresh the cash, My post is there!

Man… am I confused. :o/