life ends at 27
All I can say is, SUEET! It is a project that integrates best of breed Open Source .NET software to produce an online community suite. That makes it a direct competitor to Community Server and, to a smaller extent, mojoPortal.
I’ll be looking at the possibility of migrating That Stupid Club which is currently running on CS to Sueetie. CS was nice, and for a while was the only choice, but it is just too big and too complex to customise easily.
I’ve been putting this long overdue update off due to some ridiculous workloads and just plain laziness (which would explain the lack of posts too). But yes, That Stupid Club is now running on Community Server 2007, only with the same stupid theme. The new skinning engine is really nice, but unfortunately I am just not imaginative enough to do something nice with it.
I have not ported my blog skins over so this blog is not currently running on my favourite skin Barthelme. Soon, I hope…
The Community Server website has a new look, in anticipation of the imminent CS2007 release I suppose. Much more polished, though somehow less distinctive. Probably due to the colour scheme.
In any case, am improvement.
I was fooling around with the first beta of Community Server 2007, and swiped ideas from a few websites which shall remain unnamed (“I’m a code monkey, not a designer!” is my excuse).
I guess I like the new design enough to make the effort to back port it to CS 2.1, which is a pain in the ass to skin. I guess I was getting quite sick of the old look too, which was “developed” by me from the default theme of CS by changing some colours.
As a mental exercise, I optimised the CSS files by hand, and was able to reduce the total size by roughly 10%. Common.css is now down to 40 KB from the original 52 KB.
Take a look at it on the home page.
Still waiting for CS 2007.
Kubrick is, of course, the default theme of WordPress. I have been working on it on and off, and I figure I should release it before the imminent release of the first beta of CS3.
Includes variant ChinaRed by BigheaD (大头绿豆).
Yet another adaptation of a minimalist WordPress theme, “White as Milk” by Azeem Azeez.
I did the variant with the dark background by request. Not quite happy with it, but I think its usable.
Please comment if you are planning to use it, together with the URL of your blog, as Azeem requested to see it in action.
The CSS, XHTML and design is released under GPL.
I was planning to go on a major skinning exercise for That Stupid Club, but seeing this, and actually reading about it, I am salivating at The Power that will be available.
Eagerly waiting for the first beta…
Update: link to Ben Tiedt’s series of posts introducing Chameleon for own future reference.
The Telligent crew back ported the Blog File Drop feature slated for CS 3.0 into 2.1. What it means is that I can upload more than one picture per post via the MetaWeblogAPI. This is fantastic news. It simply means I no longer have to futz around with the Photo Gallery should I need more than one picture in a post. This is also the first post I am doing with Windows Live Writer, which is really nice.