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Coming to beta 3 of athena, will be the athena configuration file and schema. This file will allow you customize athena's core, including the drop down boxes, the predefined styles (new feature), the variant settings (RC feature), and the fonts. All in one file, which can be uploaded into the theme configuration file if needed. By default there wont be one, and will use the inbuilt defaults and the theme configuration. Attached is a sample Athena.xml file. In the file you can see the new drop...

The 2nd Theme of the Theming has just gone live. Sunrise is the name of the theme, produced in under 2 hours by me, for you guys. Available for £10.00 from my Theme Shop . Hope you enjoy sunrise. Again produced from freely available CSS template sites, with my own custom take on theme. If you have any questions, give me an PM

Last Friday I made the Theme Store , by this Friday I'm hoping for this to be completed, so that the new Themes, as part of the Theming , will be available for purchase. The theme store uses the file gallery, as well as paypal's express checkout service. Currently it's using the Sandbox paypal site you allow me to finish the coding, but once it's ready, I'll make it Live for all of you to play with. There's still some things still left to do with the Theme Store , like, make...

NB Development presents: Athena Beta 2. Complete with Opacities, Localizations and forum status indicator links , and Current Font Selection indications. Beta 2 has some minor bug fixes, nothing major: Fixed Gallery Section ID so it pulls from the theme data Color and Opacity .ToLower() string comparisons added Fixed some small javascript issues Cleaned up some of the javascript code Updated the Skin to Fully Support CS 2007.1 Fixed Resource issue in the Profile Page (CS 2007.1) You can download...

NB Development is happy to present: Athena beta 1 is a huge improvement over Aero, the JavaScript Athena engine is completely new, totally new, faster, quicker, and has it's own API's for you to plug into. Or will do, lol For more information on Athena, or to download Beta 1 visit: http://showcase.nbdev.co.uk/athena.aspx The backend of athena is quicker as well. Now taking us of Community Server 's Theme Configuration Caching. Notes: Opacity DOES NOT work in beta 1. This will be a beta...

Coming soon to the Athena Alpha's, SVG backgrounds, which will bring animated background images to users of Firefox and Opera. Yes that's right, animated background images. I'll be demo'n a vista screensaver background, of sorts. in other Athena news, I've written the backend, pretty much, just got the theme default's typed class to make. Then it's a bit of AJAX fixing, then some JavaScript client side scripting to get everything working. The Beta's of Athena will...

Earlier than planned now is the release of Windows Live ID for Community Server 2007. There will be a webcast on this story soon, which will be welcome, as I haven't done a webcast in a while. For more information about Windows Live ID for Community Server visit http://showcase.nbdev.co.uk/archive/2007/08/16/live-id-sso.aspx To download it, visit http://showcase.nbdev.co.uk/archive/2007/08/16/live-id-sso.aspx

Athena on NB Development has been updated to Alpha 2.2, which has IE7 support for the current implementation of the athena bar, as well as other Athena related area's. Athena is still best viewed in Firefox, as is every website, but if your in the dark ages, and still use IE7, then NB Development , and athena, will work for you. Try the color changer , it should work Read More...