Comments on: Skinning Community Server 2007

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:07:36 +0000

Thanks for your comments, everyone. Since I wrote this post, the team at Telligent launched a forum reorganization specifically aimed at getting the posts that refer to older versions of CS separated out, which makes it much easier to find relevant information. That’s a huge step in the right direction for them.

By: lilia

lilia — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:11:13 +0000

Thanks for this post – I’m a non-coder power user volunteering for a fledgling non-profit, trying to figure out how to skin our non-commercial CS install and create some basic community tools, and this post is right-on target. Hope to see some better documentation for content managers and skinners soon!

By: Erik Ernst

Erik Ernst — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:13:19 +0000

Thank you for a great post. I’m also a developer in “your group” (medicore developers [;)]), and I can follow all of your comments and conclussions. We need better documentation for CS, unless CS should become a system only for hardcore developers or enterprise organization who can afford to hire the people from Telligent directly to modify their installations…

By: Ben Tiedt

Ben Tiedt — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 03:00:41 +0000

I can definitely understand the frustration of theme developers who are not also .Net programmers. I hope that my upcomming book “Professional Community Server Themes” (available in early November) will help and I’ve already started planning a more complete, single, online reference for theme developers.

By: Community Server Byte for October 13, 2007 - Dave Burke

Community Server Byte for October 13, 2007 - Dave Burke — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 15:46:06 +0000

[...] well-written and interesting narrative from Scott Vandehey on his frustrations with theming CS2007. "So, to recap: If you want to find anything out about Community Server, be prepared to spend [...]

By: Rob Howard

Rob Howard — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:07:01 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to write up this great feedback, Scott! It’s definitely something that we listen too and we are working on some better documentation.

Thanks,
Rob Howard
CEO, Telligent

By: Sig

Sig — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:27:49 +0000

I have had similar problems with Drupal, which I have a love/hate relationship–mostly love, but the search functionality doesn’t fall under that. There’s no way to order search results by date or limit by version number. There’s an ungodly amount of documentation out there, but you can spend a lot of time sifting through things that were resolved literally years before.

Since maintaining documentation is one of my enthusiasms, it is particularly annoying to me when other people don’t.

Sig

By: Jason Alexander

Jason Alexander — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:52:16 +0000

Scott, this is GREAT feedback! Thank you very much! We definitely understand our documentation is lacking (heck, we developers all hate writing documentation), but we’re slowly working towards building a better set of documentation. We’re getting there, but we’re still a ways behind. I would love to stay in touch with you as one of our target audience members/testers on new things as they roll out. If you’re interested, please shoot me an email. Looking forward to it! -Jason, CTO, Telligent