A couple of weeks ago the BlogEngine team announced the release of version 1.5 RC (Release Candidate).  This motivated me to do a number of things

1. Download and install run 1.5 RC locally to see what has changed.
2. Document the changes I have made to this site, extension installations, page modifications etc.
3. Install these modifications to 1.5 RC to check their compatability in preparation for a future upgrade to 1.5 when the final version is released.
4. Finally the main reason for playing with this newest release was to test the themes and extensions I have written that you have downloaded.  At the moment that is only the Greenway theme and Randomquote extension.

I am glad to report that RandomQuote version 1.2 still works fine and is compatible with 1.5 RC.  Hopefully nothing will change between the RC and Final versions to change that. 

Unfortunately there does seem to be a little bug, or should I call it a special feature, in the Greenway theme on some browsers.  The theme displays as expected in IE7

 
The calendar and RandomQuote extension are nicely positioned under the menu bar. 
Now compare that with how it looks in FireFox 3.0.9 

You can clearly see the difference in the position of the calendar and RandomQuote extension.  I don't believe this is a direct affect of version 1.5, this bug has probably always been there.  Due to its nature I am not going to urgently look into fixing it, sorry guys, personal commitments prevent me from spending the necessary time on it.  I know what you are thinking, you can spend time writing about it so why not spend some of that time fixing it.  Fair argument I suppose.  If any of you have found a way to resolve the issue feel free to get in touch.

For more information regarding 1.5 see the announcement on the official BlogEngine site

As usual you can get all the up to date downloads from the downloads page.

As promised the RandomQuote extension to DNBE is complete and has been uploaded to this site.
The current version is RandomQuote 1.2.
I do not plan on any major changes or updates to the extension, that is unless someone finds a major bug.

There were a couple of bugs fixed, nothing big.  As usual you can get the updated files from my downloads page.
Thankyou all for taking the time to use this extension. 
If you have any comments or suggestions please get in touch, I would be very intrested to hear if you are using RandomQuote and what you think of it.

I have upgraded this site with the  DNBE 1.4 release.

The good news for those who have downloaded the Greenway theme from my downloads page is that, thankfully, it will work fine.
The not so good news is for those of you who have downloaded the RandomQuote extension is that there are a couple of bugs in it, mainly relating to null references.  I am currently working on these and hope to have an update out to you withing the next 24 hours or so.

As always, feel free to leave any comments or suggestions regarding these themes and extensions.

** This extension has been updated **
** Go to Random Quote Extension Update **

I have created an extension for DNBE.   For installation instructions see the README.TXT file included in the downloadable zip. 

The extension is "RandomQuote", and does pretty much what it says on the tin. RandomQuote allows you to display a quote on a page, randomly selected from those you have entered via the admin page.  You record two pieces of information, a quote and a reference, i.e. author, date and time or place of the quote.

Any quotes you have entered will be displayed in the list.

When the control that renders, there are three style sheet classes specified.  You can use these classes to style the look of the control using CSS.  The three classes are 'quotemain', 'quotetext' and 'quoteref'.  The rendreed HTML will look like this:

<div class="quotemain">
    <div class="quotetext"> Some quote text here </div>
    <div class="quoteref"> Some reference here </div>
</div> 

a simple style sheet may look like:

/****************************************
Random Quotes
***************************************/

.quotemain{ /* Specify style here */} 

.quotetext{ font-weight:bold;}  

.quoteref{ font-style:italic ;} 

You can download it from here or from my downloads page.

version 1.0, 17th February 2008.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any feedback, suggestions for improvements or if you find any bugs.