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Archive for March, 2008
I saw this question in the Graffiti Support forums and figured I’d turn it into a tip. By default most Graffiti themes only publish the post excerpt on the home or other index pages (like tags) because, for SEO reasons, most search engines don’t like duplicate content on sites. But lets pretend you are throwing [...]
The control panel post lists in Graffiti and Community server don’t offer a search functionality (yet) that would make it easy to find and edit existing posts. The easy work around for this problem is to make sure you are signed into your account and use the site search to find your post. [...]
Kevin Harder created a Graffiti plugin that uses the Slide.Show Silverlight photo gallery control. This plugin allows you to use Flickr, Picassa, or photo albums stored on your server. Download the plugin, which is located here: http://kevinharder.com/downloads/graffiti/slide-show-plugin/ Copy the Copy the Graffiti.Slide.Show.dll file into the /bin folder on your web site. In Graffiti, as [...]
03/24/2008
On one hand ad networks offer publishers and networks the ability to simplify and hand over inventory, but on the other hand… online ad management is going in the direction of becoming a commodity that publishers will be less and less likely to pay a middle man for. Reading between the lines below it seems [...]
03/24/2008
So you have your fancy new site almost ready, but you realize you want a way for people to contact you. You need to build a contact form. Things to know that will make this simpler: Graffiti themes are comprised of scriptable *.view files that define page contents and layouts. Pages named after these view [...]
