Radio UserLand, RSS, Weblog Tools and Design
Friday, November 08, 2002Experiences of switching to a new Radio weblog theme. Matt Croydon::postneo answered my question about how easy applying the new theme was:
Thanks for the answer! I think I'll have to look at my style definitions to make the new theme a bit more readable. But this is a good start, I believe. I also used the following hint on Centralized CSS in Radio:The transition went pretty well. I had also tweaked my old theme, adding links and blogrolls down the side. I saved my home page template so that I could keep these tweaks.
The next step was to turn upstreaming off in Radio. I didn't want things to go live until they were ready. I had to remove every reference of Veranda and Garamond from the movable type CSS file after applying the theme. I'm an Airal guy. It's clean.
After removing a few things like smaller fonts on links and adding a new section on the sidebar with my blogroll, I turned on upstreaming.
I opened Radio, and ran Tools -> Publish -> Entire website. A good backup of your www folder should be done beforehand.
Overall I'm pleased with the result. It didn't take a whole lot of time and was definately worth it.
If you would like to centralize your Radio CSS you can simple save your Style sheet as "#cascadingStyleSheet.txt" then place it in your "www" folder. Then simply add the macro to your template. Your CSS will be included where you included your macro.[Universal Rule]