Jan
Announcing the Mephisto Theme Gallery
Justin Hernandez and I just launched the Mephisto Theme Gallery, an unofficial showcase site for open-source themes and templates for the Mephisto blogging engine. Mephisto’s becoming increasingly popular, especially within the Rails community, so we thought it was about time it had a good and proper theme browser. This uninspiring wiki page just wasn’t cutting it anymore.
The app itself was developed using Rails in around 30-40 hours spread over 2 weeks. Neither of us are web designers per say, so we decided to work within an open source layout put together by Will Rossiter. We leveraged plugins wherever possible, and I implemented the image validation based on Chris Wanstrath’s recent captchator on Rails article. The end result? Not too shabby if I say so myself.
Anyways, please take a look, and let us know what you think.
Commentary
Just what I was looking for before I convereted my blog to rails. Thanks for the comment, now I have a great new blog to read, and an awesome gallery for mephisto.
:)
Nice. Loving Reddish, by the way. We’re using it on SFRuby.org.
Thanks for the comments guys.
BTW, that’s awesome Chris – caught the SFRuby site before, but didn’t realize that was you.
I’m trying to submit a theme, but the form hangs. It gives error-messages when I leave fields empty, but times out without any errormessages.
Yeah, there was a problem with my server config—thanks for pointing it out. It’s since been fixed, and your theme’s up and looking good!