Community Server 2007

Thursday, August 28 2008 -

The team has been hard at work on Community Server 2007. Our goal has been to make customizing the site’s look-and-feel easier. I posted about it the other day here.

We’ve made a lot of progress on the developer level features, cutting down dramatically on the number of files required change a site’s theme. But we’ve also been working on some of the new built-in WYSIWYG tools. I thought I’d post a few previews of where we’re at (below). Another awesome capability we’ll support is an import/export feature to make sharing themes, and applying new ones really simple.

Lastly, if you want to read more about Community Server we also just published a 45+ page Community Server Evaluation Guide.

Choose layout:
Both at the site and blog level you can control how you want the site presented.

 

Set site colors:
Control all site colors as well as images.


 

Pick a site color:

New HTML + JavaScript Color Selector allows you to choose from 32 million colors.

 

Change fonts:
Control font faces and sizes easily.

Select blog theme:
Simple and clean tools for selecting the theme for your blog or site.

 

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10 comment(s) so far

John S. wrote on Friday, January 26 2007

OK...how did you make those dropdowns?

Sean Kearney wrote on Friday, January 26 2007

Looks great Rob!! I can't wait to check it out.

Joseph Cruz wrote on Friday, January 26 2007

Totally awesome. As a very recent (this week!) evaluator of Community Server, I'm having a hard coming up with a reason why we should use this product for everything we do at my office. The collaboration, engine, editing, and extensibility features are really bar none.

Now if only more of the features worked just as well in Mozilla as they do in IE. Oh...and I just can't wait for CS 2007!

Carsinigin wrote on Friday, January 26 2007

CS 2007 is looking great.

If I spend some time on my dev server setting up a theme for my site, how easy is it going to be to deploy that to the production server. Currently we just copy the theme directory to the production server. It looks like the customizations that are shown here will need to be stored in the Database.

Will there be an XML file that we can download from one site and upload to an other for these changes or will we have to go though the UI to duplicate any customized themes?

http:// wrote on Friday, January 26 2007

>OK...how did you make those dropdowns?

They look like the SharePoint-style dropdowns now available in the AJAX.net toolkit. They are great because you can literally make a dropdown list with just about anything in it. I used them to drop down a tag cloud (click on "Step 1" here: http://nicic.org/Library).

Andrew Block wrote on Friday, January 26 2007

Looks very cool, Rob...I can't wait until it comes out. You guys do awesome work.

Tore wrote on Saturday, January 27 2007

cool cool, would like to see more of the layout-options!

steveso wrote on Thursday, February 01 2007

Very, very cool! Looking forward to the betas already!

pixelbobby wrote on Friday, February 02 2007

I've been hitting this site daily for any updates, I can't wait! You guys do such a great job.

Nadine wrote on Friday, March 09 2007

I have a question about design extensibility / customizing. How flexible is Community Server when it comes to supporting CSS and templates made from total scratch?

For example sites that deviate from the "blog look and feel" that seems to be a standard now. Sites with landing pages, and different kinds of archive templates? Or skins that aren't based on the general blog skin?

thanks :)

Also you guys have a done a great job from what I've seen so far. Good show.

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