On some other, private, blogs I have running, I tried to find some other templates to use. Blogskins looks like a promising site. It enables people to upload their own blog templates to storage. Then others can preview, comment, and api-based download of them into their own blogs. I have spent probably two hours of my life screwing around with blog templates. My conclusion is that there isn't a single good, robust blog template anywhere.
Every single template I've used has failed at one point or another. The css-based sheets seem notoriously unreliable when I start putting in simple html of my own, like line items, italics, bolds or breaks. I don't even bother with many of the other ones because they have hard-fixed table widths or resolution requirements.
I guess the challenge is to write up a stronger CSS template which can handle simple html editing additions. Then you can stick that basic engine into your template, dressing it up with whatever colors and columns you want.
Check out blogskins... it's the only place you'll find code more brittle than the ArsDigita Bootcamp.
Posted by Nils Blutig at October 21, 2002 12:06 AM | TrackBack