Id like to add a feature request to the renderTextPreview function - Im using the text_macro with limiter in the story preview skin for the reason to make long postings possible without messing up the übersichtlichkeit of the frontpage. but of course when the tags are stripped automatically then its not that übersichtlich either... (and, is there an english word for übersichtlich? ;)

This is a proposal for restructuring the way Antville handles site navigation, i.e. displaying links within a weblog for various groups of users. Here is a list of proposed changes:

1. Leave the current weblog.navigation macro as is to avoid breaking current antville.org weblogs.
2. Directly embed navigation elements that are the same for all users into the main page skin.
3. Create a new macro called "weblog.adminlinks" that only display links for contributors and admins. Points 2. and 3. solve two problems:
   • it makes it possible to separate basic site navigation from navigation links displayed only for contributors and administrators
   • it makes basic site navigation easier to customize
4. Replace the "search" link with an embedded search field (already discussed and agreed upon here)
5. Replace the "topics" link with a macro that displays an inlined list of all topics (imagine, no more links to empty topics page, and new topics would automagically appear in sidebar!)
6. Move the "polls" link to the links only displayed for contributors and admins. The reason for this is that I consider polls to be building blocks similar to images and goodies which would be displayed to ordinary users only when linked or embedded from a story or comment or skin.

Thus, the site navigation code that would be directly embedded into the main page skin would look something like this (in pseudo-macro-code, so to say):

<% weblog.link to="main" text="home" %><br />
<% weblog.topiclist %><br />
<!-- insert more static links here if you want -->
<% weblog.adminlinks %><br />

<!-- um, maybe we should write a macro 
for the search box? -->
<form action="<%this.url%>search"><input name="q"
value="<% request.q encoding="form" %>"><input
type="submit" value="search"></form>

whatever.antville.org/?xyz leads the a "This server is temporarily unavailable. Please check back later." message which is pretty interesting (came across it as I had troubles with a proxy and wanted to refresh the page that way). Not too serious problem though ;)

...I'm just carrying the results of a help thread to the (hopefully) right place:

't would be nice to be able to access the email of an author in addition too his/her url. shouldn't be too hard to add this feature, for usage like in:

< % this.author as=email % >

matching the now available

< % this.author as=link % >

wouldn't it be nice to use the commentcounter macro to only display the number of comments but not to have this part formatted as a link? I'm trying to cut down a specific layout to the minimum, and every additional link might be too much. (of course it works this way as well, its only a proposal ;)

.../skins/edit?proto=weblog&name=searchform does work, but I'd like to suggest adding a link to that skin from the skin editor...

interestingly removing everything in a skin has the effect that the changes aren't saved, a skin seems to always have to be at least a single char or   long. Which is not that intuitive... ;)