I love this touch of personality… especially considering this tool is made for something that’s traditionally boring…
Archive for April, 2008
If you’ve recently downloaded Graffiti then you are likely running the most recent version, but how can you find out for sure? To verify the version of Graffiti you are running you can view the page properties on your site. In Firefox right click on your site and click "Page Info". You’ll see the following [...]
Jim Martin spent the weekend creating a great plug-in for Graffiti that makes it super simple to insert streaming Silverlight media into your posts. The download and usage instructions are here. Note that this should be considered a beta/demo/(however you say not officially supported). I should also not that because of that installing this plug-in, [...]
Time to check on on things I’ve recently found interesting. This post is brought to you from Google Reader by my Feed Inserting plugin for Windows Live writer. Get your copy here. People don’t realize it, but Xbox live is one of the worlds largest social networks with a true API and great applications that [...]
So you’ve been posting pages and content for a while with GraffitiCMS and realized that your original categorization of posts was incorrect. That’s OK, blogging and content generation are organic things and as your site grows you’ll discover what information architecture works best for your visitors. But now you might be afraid to change your [...]
This tip really comes from Jeftek who left a comment on my tip for showing full post content in Graffiti. He has some great suggestions on how you can improve what’s shown in excerpts. Essentially you can tell Graffiti exactly what to put in the excerpt by filling out both the body and extended body [...]
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What determines the quality of user generated content?
On the Freakonomics blog they link to a comparison between recent YouTube and MetaFilter user commentary. The question is asked if $5 can improve the quality of the comments. You can guess what this looks like, but its worth checking out the difference in comments for yourself. On the Web site thatsaspicymeatball, you can view [...]