New Mango Blog Theme: Company Blue

Yes, we coded another Mango Blog theme.  This is the 2nd of what will soon be many themes to be made from the almost forgotten folder of designs we stumbled upon.  This design is called Company Blue and is available for anyone to download and use/change freely under the Creative Commons.

The Company Blue theme has a little bit more style to it than the last theme.  This validated XHTML theme is very professional looking site and is great for any small business.  It is fairly search engine optimized and easy to work on.  It has space for a big promo image on the front page.  It also has a site search tied into every page, making it easier for people to find things on your Mango site.

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Update to Business Mango Theme

Over the weekend, we made some updates to the recently released Business Mango theme. After looking at some of the themes put together by Visual28, we realized we could be doing things better. We were using <cfinclude> files when we should have been using the custom <template> tags. So, with this we needed to add in a little code to the sidebar, footer and header files.

While making these changes, we also started to use <cfsilent> around the import tags in theme files. <cfsilent> suppresses output produced by CFML within a tag's scope, the most common output being unneeded white space. This just helps to keep things clean.

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New Mango Blog Theme: Business Mango

In an attempt to get an inventory organized, we stumbled across a design that was never utilized for a project. The instant thought was that this design would be perfect to use for a first-attempt at a from-scratch Mango Blog theme. While we have worked with Mango on several sites, we mostly adapted existing designs/templates to the look we needed. This rediscovered design was a good idea for our first, very own, Mango Blog theme.

We came across the open source ColdFusion blog application Mango Blog over a year ago and fell in love with it instantly. The potential is huge and the ideas are near limitless. It is very much the "WordPress of ColdFusion", with one important difference: Mango is alot easier to skin!

To promote the continued use of Mango Blog, the nerds at Brice Cheddarn have decided to embark on a Mango Crusade to spread the word. Call us the Tom Cruise of Mangotology.

As a part of that, we will begin to code a series of plugins and themes released under the Creative Commons so that anyone can download and use freely, or change as they see fit.

The Business Mango Theme is the first of many free theme ideas we have in mind. This theme is very simple and rather plain but, it is good for throwing a site up in a hurry and is very professional looking, making it a good choice for any number of business oriented websites or personal blogs. It is validated XHTML and CSS as an added bonus. As time allows, updates and enhancements will be made.

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