After some hard work and alot of learning on my part of CSS, I'm happy to release this new theme for BlogEngine.NET 1.3. This theme was originally designed by styleshout. It's a very fluid design with nice complementary colours. I tried to adapt the theme to BE.NET as closely as possible, but I had to take some creative liberties with regards to some of the side panel controls.
Compatible Controls
| Control | Included | Compatible |
| AuthorList |
No |
Yes, with ShowRssIcon="false" |
| Blogroll |
No |
No |
| CategoryList |
Yes |
Yes, with ShowRssIcon="false" |
| MonthList |
No |
Yes |
| PageList |
Yes |
Yes |
| PostCalendar |
No |
No |
| RecentComments |
No |
No |
| RecentPosts |
Yes |
Yes |
| RelatedPosts |
Yes |
Yes |
| SearchBox |
Yes |
Yes |
| SearchOnSearch |
Yes |
Yes |
| TagCloud |
Yes |
Yes |
You need to turn off ratings and comments for the Recent Posts control (I wish the theme could control this).
Known Bugs
- In Internet Explorer 6 and 7, the footer moves depending on some of the links you may hover over. This was an issue in the original design as well. I have not been able to fix it yet. The problem does not exist in FireFox 3.
There are a couple of things that don't look as nice in this theme as I would have liked. Unfortunately, there were some limitations because of BE.NET 1.3 itself. Hopefully, these will be addressed in a future version.
When enabling this theme, if you notice RSS icons in the Category List, just ignore it. They'll disappear after some time and won't reappear unless you switch themes again.
If you find any issues, or if you have an improvement for the theme, please let me know.
Download the theme below.
BlogEngine 1.3: BE.NET-Theme-BluePigment-1.0.zip (17.55 kb)
BlogEngine 1.4: BE.NET-Theme-BluePigment-1.2.zip (17.55 kb)