Create a simple signup page to attract customers leading up to launch. What would my blog look like if content boxes were purple? You can answer that question by simply setting the color and hitting save… but then all of your site visitors will be subjected to your bright pink sidebar before you come to your senses. You can avoid all that by taking advantage of preview [...]
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07/03/2008
Hey there IndiansFanJoe3456! Wow, that’s a mouthful. Chances are that you have one of these accounts on a site that doesn’t let you be you because someone else is already you! One of these sites may even be a Community Server site. Well, there isn’t an excuse for this. As of SP1 for CS 2008 [...]
Community Server 2008 introduced the concept of Social Networking to our platform. Users can register for your community, become friends with other members, and get status updates from their friends, but it’s lonely when you start out with no friends in a community. A bunch of sites have the concept that new users are “friended” [...]
My last tip showed you how to get some attention on polls in your user community by using the featured post widget. If you thought that was neat and you like collecting data then this tip is for you. I’m here to tell you that you can download detailed poll results to Excel. 1. Create [...]
So you like polling people huh? But you want some more attention for polls so you can collect more user data? This tip will teach you how to publish a featured poll to the front page of the forums in CS 2008 using the forum post widget. 1. Create a new poll in the forum [...]
Scott likes to say we could spend an entire release cycle of Community Server simply improving the visibility of “hidden features” in CS. This is one of those hidden gems for users that want to publish podcasts to iTunes. To configure iTunes options for your RSS: Open your blogs control panel Click the configure tab [...]
You can create a forum that tracks answered thread status in CS 2008. This is perfect for discussion areas designed for customers getting answers to their questions. To create this experience for your users you’ll need to follow the steps below to first enable thread status tracking for the site & then creating a forum [...]
One of the many improvements to make it’s way into Graffiti 1.1 is the support for migrating content from dasBlog into GraffitiCMS. Omar posted about this the other day. To find this simply use the migrator tool by logging into the control panel, clicking site options, then utilities, then migrator. Pick dasBlog and import [...]
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 [...]
