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Community Server Quickly

By : Anand Narayanaswamy
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Community Server Quickly

By: Anand Narayanaswamy

Overview of this book

Community Server is Telligent System's award-winning solution for quickly and easily enabling online communities. It includes a suite of integrated applications, such as blogs, discussion forums, photo sharing, file sharing, email lists, newsgroups, and more, which together can help you create your community presence. Community Server is the trusted solution for many organizations ranging from Microsoft and Dell to Conde Nast and Match.com, and powers massive communities like the Microsoft ASP.NET forums (www.asp.net/forums) and the XBOX forums (forums.xbox.com). You can learn more about Community Server, and see it in action, at http://www.communityserver.org. Written in a clear and concise manner, this book will guide you through the installation, administration, customization, and deployment of a Community Server solution. With the help of this book you will be able to start using your Community Server site within minutes of its installation. The book kicks off with a brief overview of Community Server, its various editions and licensing options, and installation procedures and then delves deep into the creation and management of blogs, forums, photo galleries, file galleries, and more. The book also explores the different ways you can customize your Community Server site along with coverage of various add-ons and modules. You will also learn how to manage your Community Server license and other related settings. Towards the end, the book provides an overview of the various steps required to deploy Community Server to a hosting server.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Community Server Quickly
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
Preface

Creating a Blog


Now we can create the csbook sample blog. For this purpose, we have to log on to our Community Server site as an administrator and use the options inside the Dashboard to create the blog.

Once you are logged in as the site administrator click on the link labelled Control Panel from the top navigation bar. Inside the Dashboard, you will see a series of entries as shown in the screenshot below:

Click on the link titled Add new blogs, control permissions, etc to begin. You will now view a lot of settings on the left-side navigation panel as shown in the screenshot below. As an administrator, you will use these settings to create and manage blogs.

Note

You can also access Blog Settings by clicking the Administration link from the Dashboard.

In order to follow the steps explained below, you should change the interface to grid view format by clicking on the Change to Grid View button located on the bottom right-hand side of the page. Click on the link titled Create New Blog located...