# Theme wanted for new Rails CMS **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [February 9, 2006, 2:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/theme-wanted-for-new-rails-cms/64884 "2006-02-09T02:37:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kylemathews](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/51bf81/32.png) [@kylemathews](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kylemathews)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 2:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/theme-wanted-for-new-rails-cms/64884/1 "2006-02-09T02:37:10Z")
Hi all, I just finished building a CMS (open source, MIT license, same as RoR) that is aimed at people with portfolios: graphic designers, photographers, web developers, etc. Since this fits the Rails demographic well, and I plan to continue actively developing the project, I expect it to be a hit. Some features: - 100% semantic XHTML - Built on Ruby on Rails - AJAXified administration - Revision management - Textile/Markdown-driven editing - File uploads and image thumbnailing If you are inclined, you can view an early version in my svn repository at [http://svn.kylemaxwell.com/showcase/trunk](http://svn.kylemaxwell.com/showcase/trunk). I’d like to get a project page for it up and running soon, but I need a decent design for the home page. I will end up adapting it to the sub-pages, and it will end up as the default theme for the CMS itself. In return, you get: - warm fuzzies for contributing to the Rails community - a prominent mention and link on the project home page, and in each of the downloads. I have attached an XHTML file, which, if you are interested, you can style a la CSS Zen Garden (email me CSS + images). You can add a few divs if you are inclined, but please keep the code as semantic as you can. After a week or two, I’ll use the best theme I get, and I’ll package up the rest of the submitted themes and include them in the download. ## Thanks a ton, and feel free to ask Kyle M. Chief Technologist E Factor Media // FN Interactive removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid 1-866-263-3261 ---
**Author:** ![kylemathews](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/51bf81/32.png) [@kylemathews](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kylemathews)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 8:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/theme-wanted-for-new-rails-cms/64884/2 "2006-02-09T20:01:50Z")
Oh, I’ve had reports that some people (RForum) weren’t getting the attachment, so I’ll include the xhtml inline: \ Showcase on Rails - Welcome ```
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    **Author:** ![kylemathews](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/51bf81/32.png) [@kylemathews](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kylemathews)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 8:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/theme-wanted-for-new-rails-cms/64884/3 "2006-02-09T20:02:38Z")
    Hi Kyle, just tested your CMS. Here a few things I noticed: - in the Admin-Backend are missing some clears to break the floats (in categories). - I didn’t see some posibilities to upload any images. Is this still missing? - in the frontend there should be more divs, at least on container-div, a content-div and one for navigation. But the rest is nice 🙂 HTH, Beate ---
    **Author:** ![kylemathews](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/51bf81/32.png) [@kylemathews](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kylemathews)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 8:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/theme-wanted-for-new-rails-cms/64884/4 "2006-02-09T20:28:49Z")
    Kyle, You got further than I did. I was not able to get anything working at all. I got the trunk version looked for docs (none were found) created the databases ran migrate ran rake (functional tests failed) started the server and was unable to get anything working except error messages that said things like “Please create a project”. A procedural install process would be very helpful :-). Look forward to trying it out. Mark On 2/9/06, Beate P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > HTH, > Beate > > * * * > > Rails mailing list > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) – ---
    **Author:** ![kylemathews](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/51bf81/32.png) [@kylemathews](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kylemathews)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 8:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/theme-wanted-for-new-rails-cms/64884/5 "2006-02-09T20:36:21Z")
    > - in the Admin-Backend are missing some clears to break the floats (in > categories). I just whipped together a stylesheet in about ten minutes that makes the thing look passable in Safari. I’d love to have this themed and/or improved, but for the moment, my priority is to have the backend usable and the frontend pretty. As the project matures, I want to make the backend all-around kick-ass, and I expect the frontend to be customized more and more by end users. > - I didn’t see some posibilities to upload any images. Is this still missing? You can upload images and other files into projects Categories \> Edit Project \> New Thumbnail. I’ve been thinking that I need to add a general image toolbox, maybe that will generate Textile markup for the images. I’m kinda waiting on my file\_column + form\_remote\_tag integration project to really kick the images into high gear. > - in the frontend there should be more divs, at least on > container-div, a content-div and one for navigation. I agree. I’m hoping that this is determined by the theme designer, who should add a few at his/her liberty. Thanks for the feedback! I really appreciate it. – Kyle M. Chief Technologist E Factor Media // FN Interactive removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid 1-866-263-3261