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.

As an additional experiment, we incorporated Visual28's Twitter Plugin in a different way. We have seen (and used) similar techniques with WordPress, and attempted to adapt the plugin from being a sidebar option only. This still needs some work, and is restricted to only being able to display 1 tweet at a time, but it at least shows the flexiblity of Visual28's plugin.

As time allows, updates and enhancements will be made. Let us know your thoughts or if you run into any problems. It was tested with FF/Chrome/IE7/IE8/Opera/Flock. This design is far from perfect, but we wanted to post it anyway in case it sparked ideas for other Mango developers. Download this theme and play around with it. We might even code it for BlogCFC, too.