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Shirts vs. Skins

I've taken the plunge into learning how to create skins for Community Server. My first attempts will be aimed at getting the basic aggregator pages modified to fit 3Sharp as part of our pending upgrade from .Text to CS, coupled with some custom blog skins. I've also got some work to do for my personal blog, which is going to be part of a larger community of blogs, galleries, and shared forums whose other members will include my wife. That's a lot of skins.

The goal is to be able to start writing and posting some decent tutorials and references that will fill in the gap for the lacking documentation. That's part of the fun of being a tech writer; you see great software that is missing equally good documentation and your fingers itch to start writing.

In the meantime, let me leave you with my current list of CS add-ons, skins, and tutorials since the doc wiki doesn't seem to be updated that much. I really don't like wikis to begin with; if I want someone to come along and edit my work, it'll be someone like Phil in whose skills as an editor I have faith. I've done them as an article so I can come back later and easily keep it up-to-date.

posted on Friday, April 08, 2005 1:10 AM Print
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# Community Server roster
Devin on Earth
4/8/2005 1:21 AM
Since I've been rooting around for good example skins and skinning references for Community Server, I...
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# re: Shirts vs. Skins
Righteous Indignation
4/14/2005 12:12 AM
If you find the documentation on the wiki lacking, why don't you sign in and contribute? News flash...many of the contributors don't like the Wiki either, but they deal with it and do what they can. Instead of criticize, why not pitch in and help? Oh, that's right...sounds like you're too good to be part of a collaborative project.
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# re: Shirts vs. Skins
Devin L. Ganger
4/14/2005 12:19 AM
I'm too good to help a collaborative project, which is why I'm taking the time to assemble a list of every resource I know about, actively look for more, blog about it, and keep it updated?

Right.

No, I don't use the wiki because I don't like wikis. Never have, never will. They're a solution looking for a problem, in my experience. Mass contribution with little-to-no review from experienced and talented people has never been big on my priority list. I work my ass off when I write documentation so that it is clear, accurate, and complete.

Wikis would work a lot better if they acted as a submission front-end for a peer-review process. Quality control is important, especially in collaborative projects, and it is just as important for documentation as it is for code.
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