I set up the SlideShow in my gallery a few weeks ago, and then I went away for Christmas to visit family in the UK. I just got back and had a chance to get it to work on machines other than my own. Doh!
UPDATE: After switching to Graffiti, I don't have this anymore. Will come up with something else soon.
Earlier today I saw Nikhil Kothari had implemented a cool slide show on his site. It was exactly what I was looking for. Unfortunately I spent the last 8 hours trying to figure out how to implement it. Some of that time was wasted on a stupid error...grrr....a few more hours on getting it to work on CS. Anyway, check out the galleries and let me know what you think. I will write up a post on how I implemented it in the next couple of days. I also have to solve the wierd 4001 error thats coming up...oh and post some photos...
Tuesday, December 11, 2007 at 9:27AM Tagged as blogging, communityserver, site-update, vacation in Technology So I am updating the theme on this site. Its not done, but there are already a lot of changes I am pretty excited about. Its still not perfect, but I have a bit of time on my hands right now.
Whats working and is pretty cool:
A few months ago, Community Server 2007 was released. I updated for one main reason, a new theming engine called Chameleon. I was determined to come up with a new theme that WASN'T the paperclip or the CS tree that is on everyone else's site. So I started from scratch to design something amazing. Unfortunately I discovered that it was a helluva tough to do it all from scratch. So I ended up with a theme that was pretty lame. When the Telligent guys announced they were doing a theme contest, I wanted in and planned to do something great, but didn't quite get to it. The deadline came and went and I had nothing. But then they extended the deadline. Whew! But then it came again....I noticed on the day that the time was up. Thankfully I am in Amsterdam and the 9AM CST end time was several hours away. I took the new Basic theme as a starting point and within a couple of hours, I felt I had something pretty cool. So I submitted it. I figured I would be one of a few dozen, but there were only 6 submissions. But it was so easy?!?! Whats up with that??? Anyway, go check out the themes and vote. Mine is obviously TVBrown. I screwed up a bit with the way IE shows the theme so I am going to update that soon (looks better in Firefox).
A few weeks ago when I updated this site to Community Server 2007, I also updated the theme. That theme kinda sucked, but I learned a lot about how to design a CS theme using the new theming engine, Chameleon. One of the additions I made to the theme was a Twitter badge that shows what I am up to all the time (assuming I actually update my Twitter status. Unfortunately it sometimes didn't work. When I saw there was a problem, I didn't have any time to figure out why, so I just removed it. This weekend I updated the theme again. And I got a chance to see what was going on with the Twitter badge. Doh!!! Its was so easy to fix...one single line. Near the beginning I checked to see if a particular string was null. What I should have done was check if it was null or empty. I have fixed it in the original post.