A few months ago, the amazing folks at Telligent updated their Community Server product to Community Server 2007. I updated this site to CS2007 a few weeks back and around that time I decided I should get rid of the standard paperclip theme and write my own. And of course, because I enjoy inflicting excess pain onto myself, I started from scratch. There is a lot that can be done with CS2007 and I know that even more now that I am going through this exercise. I have started using the new theme live on this site, but I am far from finished. Many of the features are working, but not looking great.

Well, the upside is that I have one more topic now to blog about. The documentation for creating themes (most of it seems to be written by Ben Tiedt) in this version is far better than it was before, but it is still pretty tough to customize a theme completely. There are some things I have learned that I will promptly forget if I don't write it down soon... Hopefully I will have a chance to do so before it disappears forever.