Dangerous Ideas

Like the other sheep, I’ve just moved from Typo to Mephisto. I’m living on edge right now, which is a little scary, but that’s soon going to be released as 0.7, right? ;-) I’m using the scribblish theme by Cristi Balan. I had to make a few changes to get it to work … needed to copy search.liquid and error.liquid from the default theme (Hemingway) and needed to change ‘comments’ to ‘article.comments’ in single.liquid. I also added the search form field to the template (which is probably why it doesn’t quite look right ;-) ). Things seem to be working okay … I’m looking forward to getting to know Mephisto (the blog engine, not the mythical being) a bit better!

Update: The feed URL for Mephisto differs from Typo. Also, it seems Mephisto only does Atom. I don’t think it’ll make a difference to most readers (could be a really bad assumption), so I just aliased the old URLs to the same action as /feed maps to, by adding these lines to lib/mephisto/routing.rb (right under the default feed one):

map.feed    'xml/rss20/*sections', :controller => 'feed', :action => 'feed'
map.feed    'xml/atom10/*sections', :controller => 'feed', :action => 'feed'

Update 2: updated base.css; removed reference to blockquote and added this (taken from Typo’s similarly-named Scribbish:

#content blockquote {
  color: #555;
  border-left: 5px solid #ccc;
  margin: 1.3em 1em; padding: 0 1em;
}