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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...

Posted to Ben Tiedt (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-08-2008
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...

Posted to Ben Tiedt (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-26-2008
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...

Posted to Ben Tiedt (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-23-2008
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...

Posted to Ben Tiedt (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-21-2008
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...

Posted to Ben Tiedt (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-18-2008
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...

Posted to Ben Tiedt (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-18-2008
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...

Posted to Ben Tiedt (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-16-2008
Community Server 2008 - Notes, Changes, and New Features

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...

Posted to Ben Tiedt (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-15-2008
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...

Posted to Ben Tiedt (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-14-2008
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...

Posted to Ben Tiedt (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-17-2008

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