Create a simple signup page to attract customers leading up to launch. So you use Graffiti for your content management, but you want to create top level links on your site to a non-Graffiti page. This is easy to to. Lets pretend, in my case, that I want to create a top level link to my personal site ledgards.com from EvolvingWe.com. Open the control panel on your [...]
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Archive for April, 2008
Via our Graffiti support forums the question “How can I switch servers?” came up. The answer, if you used the default configuration, is very simply. It’s also very simple to run Graffiti locally, configure everything you want, and then deploy it to your hosting provider. The reason this is simple is because the default GraffitiCMS [...]
Once you have Graffiti set up and you are posting content you’ll probably want to be notified by Graffiti when new user comments are made or if someone uses your contact form. So, one of the first things you’ll want to do is make sure your e-mail settings are configured properly. Log into Graffiti as [...]
What a wild weather pattern we’re in out here. Seriously, I pitched in the snow today at our baseball game. It looked something like the picture to the left… except replace real fans with homeless people that wandered by on Capitol Hill in Seattle. Today’s post is another grab bag of my recently shared items. [...]
If you are using the Blog Extensions plug-in for Graffiti you may start seeing comments on your site that are not being published. This is likely because the theme you choose did not support showing trackbacks by default since they weren’t part of the core GraffitiCMS app. Kudo’s goes to Jeff, who did an outstanding [...]
I moved this post up after a comment on Tellitip 15 reminded me that if you are using the free version of Graffiti you don’t get stats built in. You still have an option, however, to use any number of stat tracking utilities on the web. Graffiti allows you to insert tracking scripts into the [...]
04/15/2008
Early this morning Telligent launched Community Server 2008 and a new home on http://communityserver.com/. Some of the details are located here, but my pet favorite things about CS 2008 include… Enterprise reporting and analytics to help dissect, analyze, and trend user and community behavior. For developers, Community Server 2008 includes a complete Web Services (REST) [...]
You may have noticed the "Reporting" tab in your Graffiti administration UI. What you may not have realized is that the graph that opens on your dashboard page is click-able. You may, for example, log in and see that you have a spike of views in a day and want a quick answer about what [...]
Graffiti is really a great CMS solution, but you can also use it as a simple blogging engine. If, like me, you are using it primarily as a blog engine you’ll want to take advantage of the blog extensions that have been released by Telligent. Among other things the blog extensions adds a comments RSS [...]
