Friday and screencast time again! This time on a feature some have talked about before. Dave Burke has some excellent tips for using them here , Adonis Bitar talks about how he uses them . I am talking about Text Parts, or as they seems to be called now, "Snippets". If I would give a quick...

A CSModule that I've used myself on a couple of sites, but haven't seen much written about is Ken Robertson's CSModule implementation of the Lightbox JS image overlay scripts. This module enables you to insert thumbnails of your pictures in for example your blog posts by a specific text part...

On wednesday I talked about post attachements, and referred to a post by Keyvan Nayyeri on how to do attachements programatically. Today I thought I'd talk about attaching a video to your forum posts, which can be played right in the post itself. It's not really attaching a video to a post, it's more...

Some time ago I got a coffe mug as a present from a friend of mine. It's a black coffe mug which has the word 'Geek' written on it in white. Don't know why my friend thought it would fit me. :-) I wonder, am I a geek if I sometimes get inspired by code? Probably, right? When I read a code article that...

About a week ago, I initiated a new developing project together with some of the CS MVPs. What we want to do is a package of different CSModules to be used both as an example of programming CSModules, but also as a package of free Add-ons for Community Server . So far we are (besides me) Keyvan Nayyeri...

Today a topic that most of you already might know how to do. How to create a poll in Community Server 2.0. But still, evey now and then the question pops up in the forums. So I thought I'll do a post on it. Another reason for doing this post, was to examine if I could post screencasts here at weblogs...

I believe that the File Galleries that came as a feature built-in in CS 2.0 was a great feature. Now I can offer download area for my users a little bit like download.com. I can also see how many users have downloaded the files, and how many has read it's description. Users can also comment on the file...

I sat and read Chris Hammond's blog today, he had a tip on sending mail from DotNetNuke , and I thought: "How do I send mail from a CSModule?". I remember downloading ScottW's CSModule Pack , and that it had a function to send mail when new users were registered etc. Looking through his code I found...

Sunday again and I will just post a short one. Just read a great article by Rich Mercher (a CS MVP ) on how to extend objects (like users and posts) in Community Server to use more attributes than the built-in. I, like him, has seen this being asked many times in the forums. Read his article.

You probably already know, if you have a SSL certificate on your web server, that you can run SSL throughout your CS web. There's nothing surprising with that. :-) But did you know that Community Server has built in functions to temporarly redirect your users to use SSL just when they login? There might...