KevinHarder.com

The default "Lean and Green" Community Server 2007 skin is history at this site. As I'm pretty bad at designing stuff from scratch, I was looking for a spiffy template to convert.  Several other Telligenti are using Arcsin's great templates so that was the first place I looked. His Beautiful Day web site template looked promising, but I found what I was looking for when I saw Alessandro Melandri's site. He took the Beautiful Day template and made some blog-centric tweaks.  I made a few changes - mostly colors - and implemented it as a CS2k7 chameleon skin.

It's already been said by several of my co-workers, but skinning in Chameleon is so much nicer than in previous CS versions. The last time I bothered to create a site-wide skin was for Community Server 1.x.  During the 2.0 dev cycle I gave up on keeping a custom site-wide skin because it was to time consuming with the numerous files that needed to be modified (although I did go through a few blog skins).  Now in CS 2007 I only had to modify less than 10 files to implement this design throughout the site - including blogs, photos, and files.