Idiot Banter

Community Server

Posted By:

Matt

Posted On:

September 6th, 2000

Posted In:

Community Server, Portfolio

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I am forced to skin and totally customize Community Server message boards, blogs and photo galleries at my day job. I became so good at it that I wrote what we (my co-workers and I) call “The Community Server Skinning Bible”. I would not recommend table-based layouts or ASP.NET to anyone but here’s what I can do with Community Server if I absolutely have to.

Message Boards

I have skinned Community Server message boards for the follwing bands as part of my day job: Blue Rodeo, Jerry Cantrell, Triumph, Matt Mays. The memberships range from almost a few hundred members to almost 5000 members. At some point I have modified almost every file involved in a Community Server skin (hundreds!) and I can track things down easily (seems like no big deal until you see how they wrote the code).

Blogs

I have used Community Server blogs to make updating news and reviews sections easier. It also allows commenting on the news items. Everything has been 100% skinned by me.

Photo Galleries

Out of the box the Community Server photo galleries are a mess. I hack them up and change a bunch of things to make them work for our needs. 100% skinned by me, as usual.