So I have finally broken away from the horrible vanilla
SharePoint look. I initially started trying to integrate my design
into this blog quite a while ago and found it frustrating and slow.
I know little to nothing about CSS so it just frustrated the hell
out of me. I ended up shelving the project for a later date.
Two days ago I decided to have another go, this time using the
CKS Enhanced Blog Edition Beta 1 modular framework. Being a
contributer on the CKS Internet Extranet Edition this was an
obvious choice for me. I was pleasantly suprised to find how easy
it was to work with. The EBE guys have done an a pretty amazing
job. Basically the entire Blog interface has been replaced with
custom user controls that use XSL stylesheets to control the
display. I love XSL and think its great way to produce clean HTML
so I was quite happy with this arrangement.
If you havent checked out
CKS:EBE Beta release you should do so soon. All the provoke
blogs are running off this engine.