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