Hi there,

When I press Create a weblog on www.antville.org I get the message: "Sorry, you are not allowed to create a new weblog."

Why is this ?

Could it be because I share the same IP address as my roommate MrLunk who allready has 3 weblogs and several others that he's the admin of ?

And would there be a way around this ?

GreetZ Ronald (ADHD)

In the stylesheet:

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In the history:

< % image name="nameoftheimage" class="photoframe" % >

One major annoyance when creating offline stories is that one does not get to the freshly created story, but to the story manager instead where you have links to edit/delete/publish the story, but can't read/view the story in its full presentation. The way I see it, creating stories offline often serves the purpose to re-read the story before publishing it - yet to do this, one has to click several times between the story manager interface where stories are set online and the story view where the story can be read/viewed.

I tried to fix this and I'm asking whether you agree that what I came up with is preferrable to the status quo. Here's what's changed:

• When a story is created, one is always redirected to the full story view. (This should always be viewable for the author, even on websites where the author does not hold any special roles, right?)
• I changed the story.onlinelink_macro default behavior to only display a link to set the story online if the story is offline, but not to set it offline if it is online. To get links in both directions, the macro must be called with the option mode="toggle".
• The default story/main.skin gets a story.onlinelink macro with default behaviour (i.e. link is only displayd to set story online if it is currently offline) next to the story.editlink. The storymanager view gets a story.onlinelink with mode="toggle", i.e the online/offline link is always displayed.

With these changes, creating a story as offline is equivalent to seeing a preview before publishing, with links to either do some more editing or set it online.

What do you think?

when i link to a story like this: <% site.link="stoies/59/" %> i get a link that looks like this: stories/59/ however, i'd like to have an "autoTitle" feature that automatically makes a link looking like this: next steps because this is the title of the story. of course, i can always override the default link text with the "text" parameter, but if the title of the story changes, the link becomes wrong. so, an autoTitle feature wouldn't just save me from typing in the title, it would do more. and if i want to turn that feature off because i want to display the actual URL, i want to use this: <% site.link to="stories/59/" autoTitle="off" %>

i' posted a working implementation of this feature there.

When writing a function for an Antville object, if i have the number of a story (e.g. story #3 is the one at mysite/stories/3/), how can i get a reference to the story object itself? I'm looking for something like path.site.getStory(storyNum).

while its possible to upload & display images with spaces in their name, it's not possible to edit or delete them. example here.

[disclaimer: i, myself, would never ever uses spaces in filenames, especially not if those files are intended for the internet.]

if you have topics with spaces in them, the respective stories have URLs with spaces in them, which have to be encoded. antville does this properly with "%20", but some inferior search engines convert them to "+" signs, resulting in a 404 when the user wants to follow the link.

maybe the server can be told to detect such faulty URLs and rewrite them or just redirect to the proper location? this would be trivial to do in the apache conf, but even nicer if antville did it, so everyone who downloads antville automatically gets this feature.