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  • 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

  • Dynamic Navigation Support

    This add-on to Community Server 2007 and 2008, adds support for editing the navigation items of a site through the theme configuration page in the site's control panel. The add-on supports: A single row of navigation items Multiple rows of navigation items One or more rows of navigation items and...
    Published April 26, 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

  • Watch Theming Community Server from CSDC'07 (Part 1)

    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...
    Published February 14, 2008

  • Dynamic Configuration in Graffiti CMS

    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...
    Published January 17, 2008

  • "Professional Community Server Themes" Now Available!

    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...
    Published October 31, 2007

  • Talking about Community Server Theming at the CSDC

    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...
    Published October 22, 2007
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