I've spent a few hours the past 2 days making themes for BlogEngine.NET. Overall, the experience is a good one. There are a few things I'd like to see changed over the coming releases to make theming easier and more flexible, but I really can't complain.

The first one, Leaves, is included in the existing release 1.03. It is adapted from the Leaves template at oswd.org. It is very simple as you can see, but very functional. It can be easily modified to change the colors and add/remove sidebar items. It has not stood the test of time however. It worked fine in the few pages I put it through, but expect there will be areas where it will have issues. If you decide to try out this theme and run across any problems, please let me know by posting them on the BlogEngine.NET site.


The newest one is called Indigo. It is also adapted from a template (named indigo curiously enough) at oswd.org. (I'm a fan of that site in case you hadn't figured that out.) I just completed and posted this theme to the project. Again, it has not been throughly tested, so if you find bugs, please let me know by posting them on the BlogEngine.NET site.

(Note: You can click on the pictures to see a full view of them.)

Of course, I have an "ant" theme on my site now, but it is the most incomplete of the 3. It needs some serious work on the sidebar and post view, not to mention browser compatibility. (It just looks a bit different in IE.) I'll work on cleaning that up later in the week. (It is not included in the project at this point.)

I also made some notes about the theming process and have more stuff floating around in my head about it. I'll likely try to work up a more detailed post about the process late this week.

Update: I switched my personal theme over to Indigo. There were some issues with my ant theme and I figured I'd 'dogfood' indigo until I had a chance to work on themes again. Also, I've added a zip file for the indigo theme as requested.

indigo.zip (15.68 kb)