i'm gonna update antville in the next days, and i'll have to warn you before: the structure of skins has changed, which will most likely harm all weblogs hosted here. sorry for that. i'll try to do the basic changes in the database, but there will be some work left for you. this change was necessary to minimize the repeating layout-work in several skins (i.e. including the header-skin several times ...). to make things easier i rewrote the skinmanager and tried to explain what skin is used for what.

to make the update easier for everybody, i did some other things:

• thumbnail-support: if you created a thumbnail for one of your uploaded images, you can now add them into a story by simply using <% weblog.thumbnail name="[image-name]" %>. this thumbnail can be linked to an external url, but if not it will link to a popup with the fullsize-image :-)
• admins can now edit comments of others ...
• There is a default-format for dates/timestamps now included in weblog-preferences. if no format-attribute is defined in a macro-call, this format will be used. if it's not defined, the system-default will be used (thanks tobi!)
• Uploaded animated GIFs will not be crapped anymore. But resized animated GIFs will still be crapped (= the animation will be lost!). This means that the thumbnail of animated GIFs won't be animated, but the fullsize-view of it will be (thanks henso!)
• There is a new macro called "logo" with which you can (and hopefully will) include one of this nice antville-buttons/logos that claudia made for us. just use <% logo name="[big|small|smalltrans|smallstraight|smallchaos]" %>.
• the form for adding comments can now be placed into the story-fulltext
• long words without spaces in the "recently modified"-box will now be wrapped because of <wbr>-tags (does this really work with all the browsers you're using?) thanks tobi!
• I added a first version of an URL-autodetection in comments. That means that if someone pasts a URL into a comment, it will transform to a linkmacro-tag. If one writes a normal html-link, it will also be transformed to a linkmacro-tag. Please tell me if you detect any errors (and this is a big thanks to andi)

so due to the change of the skin-structure in antville i'll wait a few days with this update. PLEASE NOTE!!! if you really care about the design you gave your weblog you should save the source of your skins somewhere as files on disk (because some of them won't be editable anymore!). And as always: i'm happy to hear from you!