Graffiti Links
Graffiti Beta 1 was released last Wednesday. So far, the response has been awesome. There have been some minor bugs, but most have already been resolved. We are getting ready to add couple of additional features and looking to ship V1 very soon. The main Graffiti site and blog should be launched soon, but in the mean time, I wanted to point out what some others are saying (and doing) with beta 1.
- Rich Mercer (Telligent employee) has already released a couple of themes (which are in the beta downlaod) and a plugin for redirect Community Server links
- Andrew Tobin has posted an example on using Disqus and has given a small overview of Chalk
- Karthik Hariharan (Telligent employee) posted a nice overview of converting a theme from Wordpress to Graffiti. While I like Karthik's organization, his theme could have easily been completed using the three required Graffiti views and made things even simpler!
- Muhammad Suhada wrote a really good overview of the Graffiti control panel.
If you have downloaded Graffiti and have any feedback, feel free to leave a comment below or send me an email (scottw@telligent.com). I would love to hear what you like/don't like and what you think we could do bette.
Comments
Rob Bazinet on on 12.11.2007 at 11:57 AM
I have downloaded Graffiti and set it up with no problems at all. I am setting up a new web site with it, including a custom theme using the Access database option.
So far, works great. I have no problems at all and plan to use future betas and releases.
I plan on creating some blog posts on the process as I have something tangible to show.
Alex on on 12.11.2007 at 1:03 PM
Any plans to support integrated mode?
As another question, how would you like further bugs. Do you mind multiple bugs per email or would you prefer to keep each bug to it's own email.
Alex on on 12.11.2007 at 1:05 PM
One thing I noticed after posting that comment - There's nothing to confirm that your comment was saved. The page doesn't even refresh so people can see their comment's been posted, meaning people may end up posting comments multiple times
Scott Watermasysk on on 12.11.2007 at 1:47 PM
@Alex
Yes, feel free to email multiple bugs.
Thanks.
Scott Isaacs on on 12.13.2007 at 2:21 PM
I've played a little with the beta and I think it's great. Can you talk at all about (or point me to) licensing info? Will there be multiple editions like there are for CS? Will any be free (personal sites, clubs, etc.)? Can you give an approximate price range, if not exact?
Thanks much.
Scott
Scott Watermasysk on on 12.13.2007 at 4:22 PM
@Scott
We are still working on finalizing the pricing, but I can tell you we will absolutely have a free version.
Thanks,
Scott
Keith on on 12.13.2007 at 5:27 PM
Care to (or have time to) expand just a bit on the comment you made about converting WP themes to Graffiti (his theme could have easily been completed using the three required Graffiti views and made things even simpler)?
Thanks.
Scott Watermasysk on on 12.14.2007 at 7:36 AM
Hi Keith,
What I meant is Karthik took the more developer route and isolated pieces of his views to the files smaller and more readable.
He could have put his header/etc in his layout.view file and skipped loading external views.
All Graffiti requires when it comes to themes are three files: layout.view, index.view, and post.view. Everything else is up to the designer.
Thanks,
Scott
Chris on on 12.21.2007 at 12:09 AM
Any plans on making it a medium trust app, so that I could run it on GoDaddy? My only other option over there is BlogEngine.NET.
I would much rather be running Graffiti
Thanks,
Chris
Scott Watermasysk on on 12.21.2007 at 8:33 AM
Hi Chris,
We have a new provider (VistaDB) which does work under medium trust.
We also have a provider for SQL Server which should work under medium trust.
-Scott