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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

Modifying Themes


In the previous sections, you have learned how to modify the look and feel of your site using themes. In this section, we will examine how to modify the themes included with Community Server.

Each theme consists of several folders, namely images, Masters, Skins, and style. The style folder contains several Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) files, which you need to modify in order to change the appearance of the active theme. For instance, in order to change the background color, you should modify the relevant property from the appropriate Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) file.

In order to modify the appearance of the home page, you need to open the Common.css file located inside Style folder of the corresponding theme and update the relevant property with the correct value.

For instance, if you would like to change the background color for your site, you need to open the Common.css file located under Themes\default\style folder and modify the background-color property located under...