With the release of ColdFusion 9, and me looking forward to blogging more I decided to change the look of the blog.

The original design is called Arclite created by Digital Nature.

A short preview of how this skin works. Normal Text you have seen by now.

Lets see some Code action:
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1<cfoutput>
2First Post!!
3</cfoutput>

A blockquote (Selecting a quote from Matrix Relaoded and one from Shawshank Redemption):

Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness.

I find I'm so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it is the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend, and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.

We also have some lists here:

  1. Ordered List
  2. Colored Numbers
  • No Order Here
  • No Order = No Favourites

I also changed all the Pods on the left hand menu to use Lists. I suggest the same if you want to use this or a similar skin as it allows you greater control over its styling. The change involves adding the List tags to the output, so for example, the Archives Pod now has the code:

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1<cfoutput>
2 <ul class="menu">
3</cfoutput>
4<cfloop query="cats">
5 <cfoutput>
6 <li class="menuitem">
7 <span>
8 <a href="#application.blog.makeCategoryLink(categoryid)#">#categoryName# (#entryCount#)</a> [<a href="#application.rootURL#/rss.cfm?mode=full&mode2=cat&catid=#categoryid#" rel="noindex,nofollow">RSS</a>]<br>
9 </span>
10 </li>
11 </cfoutput>
12</cfloop>
13
14<cfoutput>
15 </ul>    
16</cfoutput>

Update: BlogCFC now ships with original Arclite theme.