Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

Something I like about my current site is that DNN looks like nGallery which looks like dotText.  You can't tell one from the other except for the graphic elements I added to each section to distinguish one from another.  That consistent look-n-... [More]

When you are building pretty much a brand new site like I'm doing in moving from DNN/nGallery/dotText to CS, you can do the little things you've been wanting to do for a long time.  One of those things is add a favicon.ico to my site (still in d... [More]

I'm working through CS registration issues and am watching dark clouds gather at the periphery of my earlier happy first impressions. CS Registration and to a lesser degree, the handling of user identity throughout Community Server, is built around suppor... [More]

I like the Community Server registration piece.  I think it is smartly designed, particularly in that it asks for essential information only: username, password and email address.  It takes the burden out of registering and quickly enables the b... [More]

I find myself popping open the Resources.xml file quite a bit to customize CSBLogs, so I thought I'd mention it. It contains system lookup values, and you'll find it in the CommunityServerWeb project, in the Languages / en-US folder.  I just changed ... [More]

If you follow Ken's excellent instructions on configuring CS for a single blog, you may encounter trouble with your Category RSS links. Here's the quick fix as described in the CSBlogs forums support thread.  I also saw this fix in someone's blog, bu... [More]

I wanted more control on how my CSBlog page displays for Firefox and IE-based browsers so I added the ability to load a specific CSS file in Community Server based on the browser type.  So IE, Maxthon and other IE-variants will use style.cs... [More]

CSBlogs searching is great.  Almost as good as the dotLucene code I grabbed from dotText 0.96 and added to my 0.95 build.  I might have to tweak it a bit, but I haven't tested it much yet. I thought I'd add a little extra sweetness to CSBlog sea... [More]

I wrote some time back about standardizing the term"dotText" as opposed to ".Text" to make it easier to acquire and identify information about our dear blogging framework.  Here we are again with CS::Blogs (CS::Forums, CS::Galleries.)  How in th... [More]

Now that I have decided to move to Community Server, the first item on the TODO list is to come up with a skin I'm happy with.  I'm still feeling my way around CS, so I'll just throw out a few observations which may help others get their own CS skin... [More]