Professional Community Server Themes

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Book Description
Wrox’s Professional Community Server Themes is one the first guide to the Chameleon theming engine. Inside, Telligent developers Wyatt Preul and Ben Tiedt share their experience with Community Server, and teach readers how to extend their implementation with theming. Professional Community Server Themes is heavy on fully implemented examples, making this a hands-on guide that will get readers customizing the look of their Community Server install quickly.

Topics include:

URL Rewriting
Modifying SiteUrls.config through Overrides
Understanding Chameleon
Implementing Blog Themes
Interaction with ASP.NET AJAX
Dynamic Configuration Options
Content Scrubbing
Creating Custom Chameleon Controls

and more.

From the Back Cover
Professional Community Server Themes

The simplicity and flexibility of Community Server has made it one of the most popular web site packages available, enabling communities to be easily created and allowing them to continuously grow and thrive. This is the must-have book on creating custom themes for Community Server so that you can effortlessly turn your Community Server site into one that meets your specific requirements.

Wyatt Preul and Ben Tiedt share their invaluable experience using Community Server and introduce you to the various files and concepts that form custom themes. They equip you with knowledge of the new controls that are available with the 2007 version of Community Server. Generously enhanced with fully implemented examples, this hands-on guide covers a wide range of topics to get you started with customizing your Community Server site quickly.

What you will learn from this book

How URL rewriting takes place in Community Server so that you can add new pages to a site and modify paths to existing pages
Ways to control the content of themes using Chameleon controls
Tips for implementing blog themes
How to interact with ASP.NET Ajax
Various topics such as content scrubbing, dynamic configuration options, custom editors, and custom controls

Who this book is for
This book is for web developers who are interested in customizing the presentation of a Community Server site. Experience with ASP.NET is helpful but not necessary.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

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