Have I mentioned before how easy it is to re-skin a Farcry CMS website?

Really simple. Here was the process:

• Design template in plain old HTML
• Create new files in dmHTML for each of your display methods (we have a Home and Inner page layout)
• Take chunks out of your new template and drop them in the two new templates (feel free to create new header and footer include files too)
• Run a batch update on your dmHTML table to use the new templates instead of the old ones
• If you use any dmInclude objects. repeat the last 3 steps for the dmIncludes folder/table too
• Just for good measure run an ?updateApp=1 request to refresh the site. If you're doing a lot of caching. go in to the Farcry admin and flush the cache too.

That's it! I'm still working my way through a complete content rewrite and homepage spotlight. All of the supporting pages including the blog have been moved over to the new layout.

I'll post more on the building of the site and the impending move to Farcry 4 once it's all done. Had to clean up first!