Thoughts from the mountains

I've wanted to setup a blog to store recipes to share with friends and family for a long time and recently found the motivation to get it done. I wanted a light color theme for this blog, so I ported the Fresh Pick theme from styleshout.com over to Mango. If anyone wants to use the theme with their Mango Blog it can be downloaded from my projects page or here.

I have updated my Mango blog theme to version 1.3 this evening after adding pod support. This adds the ability to easily change the content available in the right side column and the footer. If you would like to try out the theme or update an older version, head on over to my project page to download the new version.

I made a few corrections to my Higher Ground Mango theme tonight. I forgot the pagination links to older and newer posts at the bottom of the index.cfm and also added the <mango:Event name="beforePostContentEnd" /> tag at the end of the post content to allow for the viewCount plugin by Paul klinkenberg to work correctly. If you are interested in trying out the theme go to my projects page to download it.

One of my goals for this blog was to learn how to create themes for Mango. I looked at the guides for creating a theme on the Mango site and Benedict Lowndes blog and then started to try to make my own custom changes to the existing Happy Blog theme. While this worked in theory, my lack of design skills immediately stood out as the theme I created from customizing the Happy Blog theme was atrociously horrible looking.