Gulf Coasting theme updated for CS 2007.1
The best looking Community Server theme (I may be slightly biased) just got better! Go download the new version and try it out.
I've made many small improvements and added additional configuration options over the past two months. Here are the ones that I can remember:
- Updated to include all of the theme-related fixes/changes in the Community Server 2007.1 release (the original Gulf Coasting was designed for CS 2007 SP2).
- Now has a "wide content" mode that hides the wide right sidebar for pages that need a little more elbow room. Many of the post/thread level forum pages use this new mode, as well as some of the general pages such as logout, forgot-password, view content article, etc.
- Sidebar colors and font styles are now completely configurable via the Theme Configuration Control Panel screen. These were hard coded in the original Gulf Coasting release due to lack of time.
- Many other types of content are also now configurable in Theme Configuration, including the navigation menu, post info boxes, blog date boxes, blog comments, and site headers.
- You can enable/disable each of the three main controls on the home page from the Theme Config screen: Recent Content list, Activity List, and Users Online control.
- Blog and File post view counts should now get updated correctly.
- Fixed indentation bug in how UL and OL lists were displayed inside of posts.
- Improved caching logic of the activity list control on the home page.
- Skinned the previously un-skinned feed roller page (this is not used by 99% of people, it's only for compatibility with people who are still using the CS 2.0 feed reader that was replaced with Blog Mirroring in CS 2.1).
- Added some additional comment subscription links to the blog post comment list (email subscription button for logged in non-owner users, and extra link to comment RSS feed after you post a comment).
If you using the original version of Gulf Coasting and are updating, go to the Theme Configuration screen after updating the files and click on Save to make sure the defaults for all of the new configuration options are saved. You may also need to do a "hard refresh" (Ctrl + F5) in your browser to force it to refresh the style sheets.
KevinHarder.com (and my harderfamily.org site) are running the latest version of Community Server and the Gulf Coasting theme if you want to get a preview.
Please leave a comment on this post if you have any feedback or notice anything strange. Thanks!
Update Oct 16, 2007: I updated the /themes/GulfCoasting/style/common.css file today to correct a couple post-related issues: The half-width white background behind the comment form is gone, the comment form textboxes are indented less, and the font size of list items inside of posts is now the same as text in P tags (1.1 em). To update, just re-download the zip file and grab the new version of common.css.
Several moons ago I mentioned that I was working on a new site-wide CS 2007 theme using the incredibly