The Paperclip Theme is one of the most adaptable blog themes around. A quick change in CSS allows you to replace the background image with one of your own photos or one you’ve found on the interweb – and have permission use.

We’re adding Paperclip to our Sueetie Theme Pack but want to check we can correctly attribute the original creator.

The “original” CommunityServer Paperclip Themes:

Who invented the Paperclip Theme?

Not such a simple search engine question, unless I’m into the history of the humble metal paperclip, or worse, that annoying paperclip assistant now turned off in Office XP Word! In researching the original creator, I may as well offer the links and resources I turned up.

Caio Proiete adapted his BlogEngine.NET Paperclip themes from Telligent and provides footer credit to telligent. Muhammed Mosa also adapted these themes for a wider version here.

James Shaw infers that the Paperclip was originally designed by ‘Creative’ and adapted by telligent. So that might be ‘Sounds Creative’ the telligent company offering design consultancy. James shows how to replace the paperclip image when using CommunityServer 2008.5.

Dan Hounsell refers back to James Shaw when discussing how to automate a rotating paperclip theme background. Must try that sometime. He also linked to a telligent.com stored paperclip PSD which probably broke during migration to telligent.com.

Robert McLaws at Interscape created a collection of standard and wide paperclip theme header images pulled from the Windows 7 beta images. With both image widths that’s 62 images in total.

Interscape also suggest that Telligent wouldn’t release the original images so they could create wider variations. Again suggesting Telligent as the creator. Robert provides his images “as-is” at no charge as these are offered for personal use.

Take a look at his excellent collection here.

Incidentally the Wordpress Paperclip theme is completely different.

CFaith Communities found or developed a Photoshop PSD for the paperclip theme. Excellent resource for future header customization.

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The Paperclip Theme is one of the most adaptable blog themes around. A quick change in CSS allows you to replace the background image with one of your own photos or one you’ve found on the interweb – and have permission use.

We’re adding Paperclip to our Sueetie Theme Pack but want to check we can correctly attribute the original creator.

The “original” CommunityServer Paperclip Themes:

Who invented the Paperclip Theme?

Not such a simple search engine question, unless I’m into the history of the humble metal paperclip, or worse, that annoying paperclip assistant now turned off in Office XP Word! In researching the original creator, I may as well offer the links and resources I turned up.

Caio Proiete adapted his BlogEngine.NET Paperclip themes from Telligent and provides footer credit to telligent. Muhammed Mosa also adapted these themes for a wider version here.

James Shaw infers that the Paperclip was originally designed by ‘Creative’ and adapted by telligent. So that might be ‘Sounds Creative’ the telligent company offering design consultancy. James shows how to replace the paperclip image when using CommunityServer 2008.5.

Dan Hounsell refers back to James Shaw when discussing how to automate a rotating paperclip theme background. Must try that sometime. He also linked to a telligent.com stored paperclip PSD which probably broke during migration to telligent.com.

Robert McLaws at Interscape created a collection of standard and wide paperclip theme header images pulled from the Windows 7 beta images. With both image widths that’s 62 images in total.

Interscape also suggest that Telligent wouldn’t release the original images so they could create wider variations. Again suggesting Telligent as the creator. Robert provides his images “as-is” at no charge as these are offered for personal use.

Take a look at his excellent collection here.

Incidentally the Wordpress Paperclip theme is completely different.

CFaith Communities found or developed a Photoshop PSD for the paperclip theme. Excellent resource for future header customization.

BlogEngine.NET, Sueetie, Themes BlogEngine.NET, Sueetie, Themes

We’ve completed our first draft of a Sueetie Theme Pack intended for distribution with the next Theme-enabled Sueetie version. Once any development “fluidity” has settled down, we expect to be releasing more Theme packs to provide more theme choice.

We will also be offering bespoke Theme development and support as part of our Sueetie initiatives.

The Theme Pack (currently) includes: (in my own sweet order of preference!)

Newspaper – this provides a really simple theme style really trying not to distract from your forum, blog, wiki or media content. Originally created by Janko Jovanovic and adapted for Sueetie by us. We’re voting for this to become the ‘standard’ theme – always use a simple theme for that first look for folks starting out with Sueetie.

Leaves – based upon SmallPark’s orange and white theme, this has been widened for better forum and blog content display and adapted for Sueetie.

Scruffy – an urban theme originally created by FRESH01. This was an excellent pick from Dave Burke to show the diversity of theme possibilities.

Maui – we liked the original telligent Hawaii theme so much we thought a tribute theme referencing elements of the original theme would be cool.

Lollipop – this is the original theme created by Dave Burke for the sueetie.org site. The Sueetie lollipop is used as the favicon for all themes.

The Theme Pack will be released under the Creative Commons license providing credit to the original theme developer and its adoption for Sueetie by us.

Sueetie Sueetie

We’ve completed our first draft of a Sueetie Theme Pack intended for distribution with the next Theme-enabled Sueetie version. Once any development “fluidity” has settled down, we expect to be releasing more Theme packs to provide more theme choice.

We will also be offering bespoke Theme development and support as part of our Sueetie initiatives.

The Theme Pack (currently) includes: (in my own sweet order of preference!)

Newspaper – this provides a really simple theme style really trying not to distract from your forum, blog, wiki or media content. Originally created by Janko Jovanovic and adapted for Sueetie by us. We’re voting for this to become the ‘standard’ theme – always use a simple theme for that first look for folks starting out with Sueetie.

Leaves – based upon SmallPark’s orange and white theme, this has been widened for better forum and blog content display and adapted for Sueetie.

Scruffy – an urban theme originally created by FRESH01. This was an excellent pick from Dave Burke to show the diversity of theme possibilities.

Maui – we liked the original telligent Hawaii theme so much we thought a tribute theme referencing elements of the original theme would be cool.

Lollipop – this is the original theme created by Dave Burke for the sueetie.org site. The Sueetie lollipop is used as the favicon for all themes.

The Theme Pack will be released under the Creative Commons license providing credit to the original theme developer and its adoption for Sueetie by us.

Sueetie Sueetie

We’re working with Dave Burke’s open-source Sueetie applications to provide Theme support. We want to provide the foundation for the Sueetie community and customers to develop or customize their own Sueetie themes.

We have to start somewhere, so have chosen a set of different themes which show the diversity of Theme possibilities and which can be easily amended using CSS customization within a new Sueetie Theme administration section. The new themes chosen are already available as Wordpress or BlogEngine.NET Themes.

The Sueetie Theme Pack will provisionally contain the following themes:

1. Lollipop (a working title) – this is Dave Burke’s original Sueetie Theme. See here for this live theme.

2. Paperclip – this uses a standard width background header graphic which can be easily changed to create a new style. Original Design by Telligent. Demo here.

3. Leaves – Original Design by SmallPark, Adapted by RazorAnt. Demo here.

4. Scruffy – Original Design by Cobus Bester of FRESH01. Demo here.

More news when we have these live as Sueetie Themes.

Nick

Sueetie, Featured Sueetie, Featured

We’re working with Dave Burke’s open-source Sueetie applications to provide Theme support. We want to provide the foundation for the Sueetie community and customers to develop or customize their own Sueetie themes.

We have to start somewhere, so have chosen a set of different themes which show the diversity of Theme possibilities and which can be easily amended using CSS customization within a new Sueetie Theme administration section. The new themes chosen are already available as Wordpress or BlogEngine.NET Themes.

The Sueetie Theme Pack will provisionally contain the following themes:

1. Lollipop (a working title) – this is Dave Burke’s original Sueetie Theme. See here for this live theme.

2. Paperclip – this uses a standard width background header graphic which can be easily changed to create a new style. Original Design by Telligent. Demo here.

3. Leaves – Original Design by SmallPark, Adapted by RazorAnt. Demo here.

4. Scruffy – Original Design by Cobus Bester of FRESH01. Demo here.

More news when we have these live as Sueetie Themes.

Nick

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Dave Burke is a freelance Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer with an excellent track-record as a CommunityServer MVP, CS Developer and evangelist for .NET based Open Source software development.

Dave Burke’s CommunityServer technical writings would occasionally include CS Nuglets or “Sueeties”. These are really neat features that help the developer do things quickly, logically or remove a heap of additional work. I’m fairly sure this was the origin of the name for his open source software concept “Sueetie”.

Sueetie is a collection of Microsoft .NET based Open Source Social Networking applications which are truly free, open, without limit. Its collection of applications today includes:

• BlogEngine.NET blogging engine (which powers this site)
• GalleryServerPro supporting rich media content management and presentation (used by Queens Head Ramblers)
• YetAnotherForum.NET providing a robust feature rich forum
• ScrewTurn Wiki providing “wikipedia” style functions

These great open source product ingredients work as practical alternative for customers currently based on CommunityServer who for commercial licensing reasons, need a migration to open source products.

To be a contender to replace CommunityServer of course the core applications alternatives must be robust, configurable and provide close alternative functionality to the ones offered in CS. However, the real issue is all about membership;

Because Sueetie and all the products detailed above (or others which could enter the platform) are all based around Microsoft.NET Membership, an existing member database from CommunityServer can be migrated without losing (or resetting) member credentials.

Many CommunityServer sites we work with have looked with interest at Joomla, DotNetNuke, vBulletin, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and some that have appeared and disappeared as quickly. Because Sueetie is designed especially for the CommunityServer customer it provides the cleanest migration route.

Ambay Software are fully signed-up supporters of the Sueetie community and able to offer CommunityServer migration support.

Nick Harrington
team ambay software

Sueetie Sueetie

Dave Burke is a freelance Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer with an excellent track-record as a CommunityServer MVP, CS Developer and evangelist for .NET based Open Source software development.

Dave Burke’s CommunityServer technical writings would occasionally include CS Nuglets or “Sueeties”. These are really neat features that help the developer do things quickly, logically or remove a heap of additional work. I’m fairly sure this was the origin of the name for his open source software concept “Sueetie”.

Sueetie is a collection of Microsoft .NET based Open Source Social Networking applications which are truly free, open, without limit. Its collection of applications today includes:

• BlogEngine.NET blogging engine (which powers this site)
• GalleryServerPro supporting rich media content management and presentation (used by Queens Head Ramblers)
• YetAnotherForum.NET providing a robust feature rich forum
• ScrewTurn Wiki providing “wikipedia” style functions

These great open source product ingredients work as practical alternative for customers currently based on CommunityServer who for commercial licensing reasons, need a migration to open source products.

To be a contender to replace CommunityServer of course the core applications alternatives must be robust, configurable and provide close alternative functionality to the ones offered in CS. However, the real issue is all about membership;

Because Sueetie and all the products detailed above (or others which could enter the platform) are all based around Microsoft.NET Membership, an existing member database from CommunityServer can be migrated without losing (or resetting) member credentials.

Many CommunityServer sites we work with have looked with interest at Joomla, DotNetNuke, vBulletin, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and some that have appeared and disappeared as quickly. Because Sueetie is designed especially for the CommunityServer customer it provides the cleanest migration route.

Ambay Software are fully signed-up supporters of the Sueetie community and able to offer CommunityServer migration support.

Nick Harrington
team ambay software

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