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How to Convert from Community Server 2007 to Wordpress
It’s safe to say that no one at Pop Art was ever really happy with Community Server. We selected it as a platform for a variety of reasons, some of which turned out to be based on faulty assumptions. Once we finally made the decision to switch to Wordpress, the conversion was a huge pain, [...]
Welcome to the New Pop Art Blog!
The new Pop Art blog is live! On the front end, it’s sporting a brand-new, and oh-so-spiffy, design, and on the back-end it’s been converted to the titan of the blogging world, Wordpress. Please look around, and enjoy the new scenery. And make sure you take a peek at the new profile pages by clicking [...]
Skinning Community Server 2007
We recently upgraded the Pop Art Blog to Community Server 2007, and I was assigned to upgrade the templates. Dave produced a wonderful comp, and when I read about CS2007’s new Chameleon Theme Engine, I was pretty excited. The actual experience of working with the templates turned into a bit of a nightmare, however. Before I [...]
November Accomplishments
SelecTrucks Center Sites We launched two new Center Sites in November. Kansas City was a challenging design, with lots of absolute positioning, which caused a few problems when IE7 came out. The client was really excited about the puzzle theme. Birmingham is, I think, one of the best looking designs we've done. The diagonal navigation is [...]
August Accomplishments
SelecTrucks We launched four SelecTrucks sites this month, and all four feature landscape shots. Denver has a nice big mountain, and lots of wet-floor reflections on their photos. Cleveland has several landmarks in a photomontage, Twin Cities has a great landscape shot at sunset, while Seattle has a very nice cityscape, including the space needle. All [...]
Community Server is Grrrreat!
This is my first post since switching my work blog from DasBlog to Community Server. I'm pretty impressed with the results. DasBlog wasn't a bad program, but coming from a background in WordPress, it was frustratingly limited and very rough around the edges. I've already detailed my frustrations with DasBlog, so I won't repeat myself here, [...]
