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One of the new features in Community Server 2007 is being able to store files on a per blog and/or a per site basis. This article gives you a walk through of how it is currently implemented in CS 2007 Beta 1. I assume most of you have read about the new
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Implementing a more clear menu, like I did the other day, and do other changes to you blog, might be of no meaning at all if you're not aware of how/if they are used. Assuming your blog is for you readers, and not just a personal journal for yourself,
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For those of you reading my posts from the web page, rather than through RSS, might notice that I have done some small changes to my blog. First I've tried to make the top menu a bit clearer. So for instance I renamed the item 'E-mail', which could be
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Want to create a Community Server control that adapts to your blog's theme/skin? Community Server (CS) contains a class named WeblogThemedControl, which is used for many of the built in blog controls in CS. One of the features of the WeblogThemedControl
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After I posted the article about the Popular Topics yesterday, Thomas Freudenberg asked me: "Maybe I'm wrong, but isn't AggregatePostList supposed to do this?" He also pointed me to an article from May this year , posted by Jaxon Rice. And, of course,
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Listen to this article Have you ever wondered how you could bring up the absolutely most popular topics of your blog, and put them in a list on your blog home page? I hadn't really, until I saw some other blogs (non-CS) that had a list of those on their
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A member of my Swedish CS community has been using Wordpress for his blog for a while. Now he's planning to move to Community Server . One of the things he used with Wordpress was a control that let him add kind of external tag links to the bottom
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Last Friday I posted about a new CSModule that I had just created for showing MSN SoapBox videos in Community Server . Inspired by Gary McPherson's YouTube CSModule which is included in the Alabaster CSModule Package, and by looking through the source
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Have you seen the New MSN SoapBox ? It's like MSN's answer to YouTube. You can upload your videos, comment rate etc videos. From what I've seen of it so far it seems a pretty cool site. And if it's a cool site, you need to be able to integrate it to a
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Many of us in the Community Server Land have been talking about blog spam comments, spam rules etc the last weeks. One thing left out, at least from my own blog, is an issue that comes with these spam huntings, and that I got asked in the comments of
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The last week, many of us have seen a large increase of spam comments sent to our Community Server blogs. That has given us the opportunity to learn how CS Spam rules work, and to see what a great job they do if configured correctly. And you might also
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I won't have any screencast today as I usually have on Fridays. Why? Simply because it's getting hard to find good ideas for screencast's every week , and I don't want to start doing any topic just to keep the "schedule". But
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If you run your blog at the root as I do, you might want to get better use of the toolbar of the blog. In my case I use a modified version of the Paperclip theme. As you can see in the picture above, I have modified the toolbar by adding 2 buttons (Media
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Did you ever wonder what the statistics of views for your blog posts really mean?
Well, I did, and I posted a question about it in the forums of CS.org. After a while, I got a good explanation from Kevin Harder (Community Server Team Member). He explained it liked this:
"Generally speaking, "Views" is the number of times somone viewed a post on the web via a browser, and "AggViews" is the number of times someone viewed the post via the RSS and Atom feeds.
More specifically, the web view count is only updated in the EntryView control. This is displayed when you are viewing a single post. If you are viewing a list of posts, such as on the blog home page, the view counts of the posts are not updated.
The AggViews works by embedding an "AggBug" invisible image into each post in the RSS/Atom feeds. When someone views the posts in a feed reader that allows images, the image pionts back to a handler on your CS site that updates the AggView count for that post."
Adding to that, if you look at the number of views for each post, you can see that it is a link. The link leads you to a page which shows referrals to that particluar post. That page also provides you with a drop down box so you can look at referrals to other posts you have made.
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Friday and screencast time again! This time on a feature some have talked about before. Dave Burke has some excellent tips for using them here , Adonis Bitar talks about how he uses them . I am talking about Text Parts, or as they seems to be called now,
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