ChrisHammond.com is now responsive

ChrisHammond.com is now responsive

My website was due for an overhauled design, somehow a full year came and went and I hadn't done any major updates to the website. I guess that is what happens when you, move, change jobs, and have a second child in on year, time sort of magically goes away.

A couple of weeks ago I started working on a new DNN skin, to replace my MultiFunction skin that I've had in use here on ChrisHammond.com for a number of years now. Initially I was going to work on upgrading MF, but after giving it some thought, I felt like I wanted to start over, and this time around I wasn't sure that I was going to create an open source skin, most likely just something that I would use for my own websites, of which I have plenty to spread the skin around on.

For this skin, which I am calling HammerFlex, I went with BootStrap 3 (https://www.getbootstrap.com), and Cerulean theme from Bootswatch (https://bootswatch.com/cerulean/). In MultiFunction I used OrangeBox3 for the lightbox for photos, this time around I wanted to use something that fit in with BootStrap so I used the Bootstap-Image-Gallery (https://github.com/blueimp/Bootstrap-Image-Gallery).

To get the Carousel on the homepage I used the Carousel plugin within BootStrap (https://getbootstrap.com/javascript/#carousel)

So what all does this mean? The website had a new look and feel, and if you were to view the website on a mobile device, the layout of the page will differ to fit the form factor of your mobile device.

All this with only a little simple HTML and Javascript magic, no development, and no recreation/duplication of content. DNN has some mobile functionality built into it, but the way it works is to actually setup a separate website altogether and duplicate your content over to that site. Bootstrap works in a much easier manner, I highly recommend you check it out if you're a developer.

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Wahoo. About time. Got tired of squinting.
Posted By: Richard Dumas on Jan 2014

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Chris Hammond

Chris Hammond is a father, husband, leader, software developer, photographer and car guy. Chris focuses on the latest in technology including artificial intelligence (AI) and has spent decades becoming an expert in ASP.NET and DotNetNuke (DNN) development. You will find a variety of posts relating to those topics here on the website. For more information check out the about Chris Hammond page.

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