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I'd like to start posting more video-based demonstrations and walk-throughs of theming and customizing Community Server , but I don't really want to store the videos on my shared web host (and pay for storage and bandwidth). What is a good online video service for screencasts? Blip.tv ? Vimeo...
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Community Server 2008 includes a new feature, Groups. Groups are miniature community sites within the larger community site, similar to Google- or Yahoo-groups. Each Group has its own content, membership, and permissions. What's in a Group? A group can contain a single blog, single media gallery...
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Common requests for new users of Community Server are "how do I edit the navigation bar?", "how do I add a second level of navigation items?", and "how do I add drop-down menus to the navigation items?" In all of these cases, changes are required to a few config files, some...
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File viewers are the unsung heroes that make Community Server 2008 media-friendly. They implement the support for viewing and resizing images, viewing uploaded and remote video files, viewing video from online video services, and playing uploaded and remote audio clips. Without file viewers, the media...
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The updates to the official documentation sites are still a little way out, so, in the meantime, I've gotten permission to post the new, improved Chameleon control documentation on this site. Here it is: CS2008 Chameleon Documentation The new Chameleon documentation merges the old CHM download file...
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After adding support for widgets in custom themes , it may be useful to create a few custom widgets. Widgets in Community Server 2008 (internally identified as content fragments) are server-side .net classes implementing the CommunityServer.Components.IContentFragment interface. Community Server will...
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After updating a custom theme for CS2008 , support for widgets can be added. Community Server 2008 provides built-in support for extending Dynamic Theme Configuration to support selecting custom widgets to be displayed within a theme. CS2008 includes widgets for showing post lists, user lists, group...
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My last article outlined the changes made to Chameleon and Theming between CS2007 and CS2008 and could be used as a guide for an in-depth, manual upgrade of a CS2007 theme to CS2008. In this article, however, I'll provide my suggested approach to upgrading themes for CS2008. Upgrading a CS2007 Site...
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In this post, I'll outline the changes to the Chameleon theming engine (and themes in general) between Community Server 2007 and Community Server 2008. If you're interested in the changes to themes between an earlier version of Community Server (before 2007) and the 2008 version, I suggest reading...
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As announced earlier today , Community Server 2008 is now available ! CS2008 includes many exciting new features: embedded video and audio, real friend support, widgets, mini-communities a.k.a. groups, improved messaging, and more. To help everyone make the jump to CS2008, I plan on publishing technical...
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Part one of Wyatt and my talk about theming Community Server from CSDC '07 is now available on the Telligent web site. This video provides an overview of Community Server theming, URL rewriting, and the Chameleon theming language. Go watch it now... Read More...
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As was mentioned at the CSDC'07 back in October, Dynamic Configuration support is being used in more places. Today, it was announced that Graffiti CMS (a new product by Telligent ) now supports global variables. This feature is implemented using the same Dynamic Configuration support used in Community...
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It appears that online booksellers such as Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble now report " Professional Community Server Themes " as being "In Stock!" I'm very excited that this book is finally available! This book covers most everything about themes -- understanding how URL rewriting...
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This past weekend at the CSDC , Wyatt Lyon Preul and I presented a two-part talk about implementing themes in Community Server -- both what is available in CS2007 as well as what we're adding in CS2008. We had an excellent turn-out and a lot of great questions (both during the presentation and one...
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This past weekend at the CSDC , Wyatt Lyon Preul and I presented a two-part talk about implementing themes in Community Server -- both what is available in CS2007 as well as what we're adding in CS2008. We had an excellent turn-out and a lot of great questions (both during the presentation and one...