Move from CS to Graffiti

Posted By: syuhada on Jan 01, 2008

New year, a perfect time to move to something new. After some times reviewing and analyzing Graffiti (the new CMS from Telligent) I made up my mind and moved my blog at http://syuhada.com from CS to Graffiti. Yet I still think that Graffiti is need a lot of Improvements but I do also see that this application will be rock and very popular soon and the most important is Graffiti is so light and easy to use so it's more suitable for a single blog like http://syuhada.com than using a powerful but heavy Community Server.

The migration process itself wasn't so difficult. I used a migration tool provided by Jayme Davis and it works just fine. A CS MVP Keyvan Nayyeri also create a similar tool that works as windows application for this purpose, you can find it here. Please use these tools on your own risk as these tools are not officially provided by Telligent and also please re-check your URLs and Images on your posts as it might still redirect to a wrong (old) location.

To change the look, I took a free CSS template from Styleshout and ported it to Graffiti theme. You won't believe how easy to do it, it only took me about one hour to figure out and adapted it and you can see it working properly on my blog (although it's not perfect yet and I still working on it). I will post a download link when I finish with the tidying process.

In short term I think I'm gonna create some usefull widgets for my "new" blog and share it with others.

Finally, I want to say Happy New Year 2008, hope this year is better than last year.