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  • Introduction to Chameleon: Condition Controls

    This is a post in my blog series Introduction to Chameleon ... Condition controls evaluate theme-developer-defined criteria for use by other controls. Condition controls are commonly used by other Chameleon controls (such as single value controls , list controls , and form controls ) to define conditions...
    Published January 14, 2007

  • Introduction to Chameleon: Form Controls

    This is a post in my blog series Introduction to Chameleon ... Chameleon form controls implement the functionality of Community Server forms, for example: creating a forum post, editing a user's profile, or registering for a user account. Form controls in Chameleon define the minimum functionality...
    Published January 12, 2007

  • Introduction to Chameleon: List Base Controls

    This is a post in my blog series Introduction to Chameleon ... Chameleon list controls display multiple objects/values (such as a list of Users or ForumPosts in a Thread). List controls support the same basic properties as single value base controls (ControlIdsToHideWhenNotVisible, ContainerId, CssClass...
    Published January 11, 2007

  • Introduction to Chameleon: Single Value Base Controls

    This is a post in my blog series Introduction to Chameleon ... As I mentioned in the Differences from CS2.1 and Earlier post, Chameleon uses a set of general purpose controls based on the Community Server API. These controls fall into a few categories: Single value controls List controls Form controls...
    Published January 9, 2007

  • Introduction to Chameleon: Differences from CS2.1

    This is a post in my blog series Introduction to Chameleon ... Chameleon represents a major shift in the implementation of themes within Community Server . Changes include: The removal of skin files Community Server 2.1 and earlier included a large number of specific-purpose controls each with their...
    Published January 9, 2007

  • Introduction to Chameleon

    Over the past several months, I’ve been working pretty constantly on developing the new theming engine for Community Server 2007, named Chameleon. Chameleon represents a major change in the way themes can be implemented in Community Server. Chameleon enables far more flexibility in theming while being...
    Published January 8, 2007

  • Updating CS2.0 Themes for CS2.1

    Community Server 2.1 is almost ready for release. Because of this, I have recently spent some time updating 2.0 site themes to work with 2.1 for some of the websites that we manage at Telligent. I thought it would be helpful to post the process that I used to help others that will soon be making the...
    Published August 8, 2006

  • Decreasing Page Size

    I've recently been analyzing HTML pages rendered by Community Server to help optimize page downloading, rendering, and caching. To help in this task, I created a quick web-based Page Weight Calculator . The calculator analyzes the source of an HTML page and determines how many occurences and how...
    Published June 5, 2006

  • Site Update and CS 2.1

    If you're reading this post through the web site (and not just sucking it through an RSS feed ), you'll hopefully notice the new site design. I've been working on the design for a little while now. It uses a single/default/root blog and single/default gallery configuration of an early build...
    Published May 30, 2006
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