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This is a totally rewritten version of my Soup Developer skin that I have coded for Community Server 2.1. I have rebuilt it from the ground up and it represents a significant improvement from the Soup Developer Blog Skin for CS 2.0. My CS 2.0 skin has been downloaded over 1000 times and hopefully people...
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I have been playing around with Conditional Comments , which lets you serve different stylesheets to various versions of IE by placing a specially formatted comment in the <head> section of your page. For example, the following code: <!--[if lt IE 6]> <link rel="stylesheet" type...
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The search function on the soup blog has been fixed. I inadvertently broke it when I upgraded Community Server from ASP.NET 1.1 to ASP.NET 2.0. Searches were giving no results. Search is not a function you normally use on your own site, so it took a mention in the Community Server Daily News that led...
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If you are going to allow people to comment anonymously to your blog then inevitably you are going to attract the worst type of spammer scum. Luckily Community Server ’s spam blocker does a really effective job if configured properly. I wrote a post a while back about how to configure your spam...
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Justin Pierce from Blogfish has posted a cool tutorial on how to extract the CS post date so that you can make a calendar date ‘box’ on your blog post. This is something I have been wanting to know how to do for a while and as soon as I saw it I emailed him asking how he did it. I originally...
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When you post a comment on a CS blog you normally receive a message telling you that the comment has been received, and may not be displayed right away. The default looks something like this: The default message is generated inside two nested divs and a table to get the desired effect. This post by Rich...
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I just found out that inserting a comment into your Jobs node in your CommunityServer.config file will cause your CS application to return an error and crash. I am comment happy – I leave them everywhere in my code to help me track changes to a default installation and remind me what I was thinking...
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For this tip I thought I would share a few of the tools and services that I use for skinning and modding Community Server , and for web development in general. Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition (Free) I haven’t gotten around to upgrading to Visual Studio 2005 yet, and I don’t do pirated...
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Rick Rezler from ASPNIX first alerted me to this issue , and I subsequently remembered that Jayson Knight had blogged about it as part of his CS tidbits , but it is important enough to repeat here as a tip: By default all CS jobs are set to run every minute. This is a mistake, and this default should...
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It is really easy to change the default date format in your blog skin. Open up your skin.config file and change the dateFormat = "f" parameter to the format that you want. For example: <Skin dateFormat = "dd MMMM yyyy"/> will give you "24 May 2006". <Skin dateFormat...