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The best ASP.NET CMS yet, our own Graffiti, is in the running for the asp.netPRO annual Readers Choice award. If you've played with it, you'll know why we're excited. Our old Dozing Dogs CMS came in second in it's first year in this event (2005) and with the amazing community response I've seen I'm convinced that Graffiti ...

A good few years ago I started another company to run some local city websites. At one point I had created a few thousand city sites and was making some decent coin from selling ads to local businesses. The idea didn't scale unfortunately - although I could easily sell enough ads to make a good living none of the people that signed up for ...

At last we can talk about Telligent's new soon-to-be-released-but-noone's-promising-anything CMS!! Adonis just posted a sneak peek video [include:blogad]

I'd love to update some of my sites - they could sure use some updating. But I'm crap at web design. The whole "pretty" thing is sadly out of my reach. I want someone to design the layout, make it beautiful, cut it up and send me css+markup that I can skin the site with. I've actually started asking around, and found ...

I hit a bizarre error today - one of those where ASP.NET hinders, not helps. But surprisingly it's quite common and well documented. It starts with browsing your site and hitting a "Service Unavailable". This is quite a scary message since I have Application_Error logging stuff, IIS handling 500's and many other ways to stop ...

From my IM this morning: DateTimeFromToMessage10/17/200611:14:24 AM/* Neils */» James Shawdude what is hspace="10"10/17/200611:14:27 AM/* Neils */» James Shawlol10/17/200611:14:39 AM/* Neils */» James Shawit's like looking into a time machine Ok, busted. I wrote my CMS a long time ago, ok? (2001) Hey, I only ...

By now most people will know about ResolveURL and use it whenever they need to reference a page that may be in a different folder. I still regularly see user conrols that reference images using plain paths though, and they only work when you use them from certain folders. Create a new folder and use the existing user controls in there and suddenly ...

Community Server 2.1 RC1 is up there for download. Obviously it's the best release yet and it's I'm now officially an enthusiast. Yeah, I've worked at Telligent for almost a year now but only recently full-time on the CS team. It's a great team, but getting my new blog site setup on CS has finally got me involved in the ...

Well, I got my CS site up and working - on my local machine. :D And then, my FTP program decided to have a very immature and badly-timed hissy fit. It took an hour to upload the files, often quoting 4bytes/sec upload speed. Yes BYTES. It started moaning about files not being uploaded correctly that had spaces in the name. And then at about 11pm ...

We've all read summaries of 2005 and what's going to happen in 2006. It's a common theme amongst bloggers it seems. I'm not going to take my turn though. This post is about why an earlier venture of mine (OurLittleNet) failed, prompted by an article I recently read - Getting it Right. Over future posts I'll look at how it could still be ...