Posts Tagged ‘graffiti’

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 [...]

Quick did you know today with a shameless plug.  Did you know you can zoom in for a better view of your last 30 days of views on the Graffiti dashboard?   Simply highlight a portion of the graph by dragging out a section and the chart will zoom in. It’s a cool effect, but probably [...]

This post covers options for setting tags & catagories on Graffiti posts from the graffiti UI & Live Writer.  I was recently pointed to a good blog post discussing the differences between categories, tags, and external tags. From what I’ve seen you need both categories and tags for optimal user navigation, ping-ability, and organization. Graffiti [...]

Passing the news. If you are enjoying your Graffiti experience you may want to consider giving it a vote for asp.netPro Readers Choice Awards. Nominated For Reader’s Choice : Graffiti CMS Graffiti CMS has been nominated for a 2008 asp.netPro Reader’s Choice Award in the CMS category. We (Telligent) have won in the forum category [...]

By default your posts will only accept comments for 2 weeks in Graffiti.  To be sure, the bulk of any activity on posts happen within the first 7 days, you might be cutting off comments from folks that wander by later… or click on a popular post in your side bar.  Here is how to [...]

Graffiti is a great tool for hosting documentation, but you’ll eventually want to customize the sort order of content within categories to something you define so that, lets say, "Getting Started" content is on top leading to more advanced content. Depending on whether you are talking about the home page or a specific category there [...]

So this is probably more of a WLW tip than a Graffiti tip or maybe it falls into the "Did you know" catagory.  For this tip you will have already configured WLW to post to your Graffiti site.  Create a new post in WLW. Drop down the save draft menu in WLW Choose Post Draft [...]

Lets say you want to upload multiple images or files at once for a series of posts or tutorials you are working on. Buried in Graffiti is a nifty multiple file upload control.  Log into your control panel Click the site options tab Click Utilities Select the file browser Pick a folder to upload your [...]