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  • What is a Good Online Video Service for Screencasts?

    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...
    Published May 8, 2008

  • Community Server 2008 - Groups Overview

    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...
    Published May 5, 2008

  • Dynamic Navigation Add On for Community Server

    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...
    Published April 26, 2008

  • Community Server 2008 - Implementing Custom File Viewers

    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...
    Published April 23, 2008

  • Improved Chameleon Documentation for Community Server 2008

    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...
    Published April 21, 2008

  • Community Server 2008 - How to Implement Custom Widgets

    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...
    Published April 21, 2008

  • Community Server 2008 - How to Support Widgets in a Custom Theme

    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...
    Published April 18, 2008

  • Using Widgets in Community Server 2008

    This video shows an example of editing and rearranging widgets in Community Server 2008.
    Published April 18, 2008

  • Community Server 2008 - How to Upgrade Themes from CS2007 to CS2008

    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...
    Published April 18, 2008

  • Community Server 2008 - Changes to Chameleon

    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...
    Published April 16, 2008
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