Probably there will be some bugs until we use it some, but I have completed initial work on the [add user] scripts. All members should now see that option in their menu bar (let me know if you don't).
It's pretty straight forward. Just give them a name and (optionally) a url for their page, and the system does the rest. The subscriptions are made to mirror a dummy account I have set up. This sets up the persons home page with what I believe are the main pages on the site, as well as granting posting permissions for the common pages (treehouse, sustenance, artifax, cinefiles, regenerate.)
If, in the future, people make pages that they feel should be added to this starter set of front page pages, let me know and I will add your page to the dummy account ('generic friend') home page. Then, from that point forward, all new accounts will include this page on their home pages.
So feel free to add people and give out pages. What's the worst that could happen?
If you give a new user a page, then that page shows up at the top of their home page. But it doesn't show up on any other member home pages, nor on the home page of anonymous visitors. So I think the convention should be to announce new pages in /treehouse (so other members can add them right away if they desire.) The new member should be informed that they can be added to the regular (anonymous surfer) front page whenever they are ready (I want to give them a little privacy when first starting out.) They should either post in 'system help' or write me directly to make that happen.
All this sounds good. 2 questions: will new users automatically have [image upload] and [add user] on their nav bars, or do/should they have to ask for/be granted this?
There is a checkbox on the [add user] page where you can choose to grant the new user the ability to add new users themselves. I think people should feel free to check this (why not? Let's grow.) All new users get the [image upload] ability.
Note: new users created when anonymous surfers check the 'remember me' box when commenting do *not* get [image upload] or [add user].
(At least, that's how it is supposed to work.)
From a new user:
Hi there.
To avoid being a "lazy linker" and annoying you all - can you tell me how to post a direct link without just leaving a http? Please note: I am a regretful luddite...
hey selma thanks for asking.
lets see if I can describe how without actually making a link or making it disappear.
first put this : (a href="
then (cut and paste the link ) which i know you already can do :
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/systemnews/comment/c18092/
and after that put this : ")
then a word which in most cases will appear underlined (or in dratfinks page color highlighted.
and then this after the word : (/a)
but actually use < and > instead of ( and ) as used in examples above.
you can make a word bold by doing this : (b)word(/b)
you can make a word italic by doing this : (i)word(/i)
and you can make line breaks with (br)
thats where i hit the wall
isnt selma signed in now ?
Hi. It is a little tricky to explain, because it's hard to make your link visible rather than an actual link. But the process is really easy. Here's what you do:
This will be our example sentence: Jim is a big geek. If we want to make the words 'big geek' into a link to my page, you would write the sentence like this:
Jim is a <a href="http://www.digtialmediatree.com/jim/weblog/">big geek</a>.
HTML always has this format. If you wanted to make 'big geek' italic you would just do this:
Jim is a <i>big geek</i>.
Or to make it bold:
Jim is a <b>big geek</b>.
Or to make it red:
Jim is a <font color="red">big geek</font>.
So, links are made with the 'a' tag (anchor tag) like this:
Jim is a <a>big geek</a>.
With the addition of an 'href=' argument (hypertext reference) that contains the URL of the link:
Jim is a <a href="http://www.digtialmediatree.com/jim/weblog/">big geek</a>.
Thanks Bill and Jim.
If it is okay I will try a test (here?) later...
Jim does not seem to be a big geek. But helpful yes, thanks.
Note to others, if you use & _ l t ; (5 characters - without the spaces in between) and & _ g t ; (again, 5 character, no spaces) you can make the angled brackets so that they appear on the page. (lt = less than; gt = greater than.)
These are special codes called HTML entities. You can make all sorts of symbols with them.
Color!
Uh oh.
okay, hi again. Can I ask another question?
If I have a picture, that is not an html link, that I wanted to post as a comment how would I do that? Is that possible?
Do I need to apologize again for my luddite-ness? If it is too complicated - or too much of a pain - no worries.
mac or pc. ive (mac) only used images ive dragged off someone elses pages. then used the image upload option at the bottom of the page. want help with that ?
there is a rule of thumb for acceptible file size that jim has recomended and which ive forgotten. i would say keep apologizing. thats what the rest of us do.
Selma doesn't have image upload ability. I'll give it to her now. This will make a new link at the top (or bottom) of pages called [image upload]. Click on that and it is pretty self explanatory. Don't worry about all the album options, just click 'choose file' - this will pop up a filesystem menu showing the files on your computer - navigate to the file you want to upload and double click it. Now scroll to the bottom of the [image upload] screen and click 'upload'. Might take a few moments depending on your connection speed.
Do you know how to tell the size of a file? You should check this first. Files in the 50K to 100K range are ideal size. Bigger is okay, but please don't upload anything crazy like a 1 megabyte (1000K) file. If you have one that is too big ask for more help and we'll show you how to make it smaller before uploading.
Once the file uploads the system will tell you how to put it in a post. Basically the system gives your photo a number, say 4312, and to include it in a post (or comment) just put <[4312]> into the post and the system will do the rest.
Let me know if you have any trouble.
Someday we will make some documentation...
This is a test
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It's pretty straight forward. Just give them a name and (optionally) a url for their page, and the system does the rest. The subscriptions are made to mirror a dummy account I have set up. This sets up the persons home page with what I believe are the main pages on the site, as well as granting posting permissions for the common pages (treehouse, sustenance, artifax, cinefiles, regenerate.)
If, in the future, people make pages that they feel should be added to this starter set of front page pages, let me know and I will add your page to the dummy account ('generic friend') home page. Then, from that point forward, all new accounts will include this page on their home pages.
So feel free to add people and give out pages. What's the worst that could happen?
- jim 2-23-2004 7:13 pm
If you give a new user a page, then that page shows up at the top of their home page. But it doesn't show up on any other member home pages, nor on the home page of anonymous visitors. So I think the convention should be to announce new pages in /treehouse (so other members can add them right away if they desire.) The new member should be informed that they can be added to the regular (anonymous surfer) front page whenever they are ready (I want to give them a little privacy when first starting out.) They should either post in 'system help' or write me directly to make that happen.
- jim 2-23-2004 7:17 pm [add a comment]
All this sounds good. 2 questions: will new users automatically have [image upload] and [add user] on their nav bars, or do/should they have to ask for/be granted this?
- tom moody 2-23-2004 8:07 pm [add a comment]
There is a checkbox on the [add user] page where you can choose to grant the new user the ability to add new users themselves. I think people should feel free to check this (why not? Let's grow.) All new users get the [image upload] ability.
Note: new users created when anonymous surfers check the 'remember me' box when commenting do *not* get [image upload] or [add user].
(At least, that's how it is supposed to work.)
- jim 2-23-2004 8:25 pm [add a comment]
From a new user:
Hi there.
To avoid being a "lazy linker" and annoying you all - can you tell me how to post a direct link without just leaving a http? Please note: I am a regretful luddite...
- selma 3-02-2004 5:50 pm [add a comment]
hey selma thanks for asking.
lets see if I can describe how without actually making a link or making it disappear.
first put this : (a href="
then (cut and paste the link ) which i know you already can do :
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/systemnews/comment/c18092/
and after that put this : ")
then a word which in most cases will appear underlined (or in dratfinks page color highlighted.
and then this after the word : (/a)
but actually use < and > instead of ( and ) as used in examples above.
you can make a word bold by doing this : (b)word(/b)
you can make a word italic by doing this : (i)word(/i)
and you can make line breaks with (br)
thats where i hit the wall
- bill 3-02-2004 6:36 pm [add a comment]
isnt selma signed in now ?
- bill 3-02-2004 6:50 pm [add a comment]
Hi. It is a little tricky to explain, because it's hard to make your link visible rather than an actual link. But the process is really easy. Here's what you do:
This will be our example sentence: Jim is a big geek. If we want to make the words 'big geek' into a link to my page, you would write the sentence like this:
Jim is a <a href="http://www.digtialmediatree.com/jim/weblog/">big geek</a>.
HTML always has this format. If you wanted to make 'big geek' italic you would just do this:
Jim is a <i>big geek</i>.
Or to make it bold:
Jim is a <b>big geek</b>.
Or to make it red:
Jim is a <font color="red">big geek</font>.
So, links are made with the 'a' tag (anchor tag) like this:
Jim is a <a>big geek</a>.
With the addition of an 'href=' argument (hypertext reference) that contains the URL of the link:
Jim is a <a href="http://www.digtialmediatree.com/jim/weblog/">big geek</a>.
- jim 3-02-2004 7:09 pm [add a comment]
Thanks Bill and Jim.
If it is okay I will try a test (here?) later...
- selma 3-02-2004 9:06 pm [add a comment]
Jim does not seem to be a big geek. But helpful yes, thanks.
- selma 3-02-2004 9:18 pm [add a comment]
- selma 3-02-2004 9:19 pm [add a comment]
Note to others, if you use & _ l t ; (5 characters - without the spaces in between) and & _ g t ; (again, 5 character, no spaces) you can make the angled brackets so that they appear on the page. (lt = less than; gt = greater than.)
These are special codes called HTML entities. You can make all sorts of symbols with them.
- jim 3-02-2004 7:14 pm [add a comment]
Color!
- bill 3-02-2004 7:16 pm [add a comment]
Uh oh.
- jim 3-02-2004 7:19 pm [add a comment]
okay, hi again. Can I ask another question?
If I have a picture, that is not an html link, that I wanted to post as a comment how would I do that? Is that possible?
Do I need to apologize again for my luddite-ness? If it is too complicated - or too much of a pain - no worries.
- selma 3-03-2004 7:50 pm [add a comment]
mac or pc. ive (mac) only used images ive dragged off someone elses pages. then used the image upload option at the bottom of the page. want help with that ? there is a rule of thumb for acceptible file size that jim has recomended and which ive forgotten. i would say keep apologizing. thats what the rest of us do.
- bill 3-03-2004 8:07 pm [add a comment]
thanks bill. I need all the help I can get..
unfortunately (will I be stoned?) I work on a pc...
- selma 3-03-2004 8:14 pm [add a comment]
(will I be stoned?) = loaded question
- bill 3-03-2004 9:48 pm [add a comment]
can I just laugh at that and answer "no comment"? Thanks again. I will try this all out later when I get my courage up.
- selma 3-03-2004 11:04 pm [add a comment]
no fear, Selma! welcome from a relative newbie.
- sally mckay 3-04-2004 6:07 am [add a comment]
Selma doesn't have image upload ability. I'll give it to her now. This will make a new link at the top (or bottom) of pages called [image upload]. Click on that and it is pretty self explanatory. Don't worry about all the album options, just click 'choose file' - this will pop up a filesystem menu showing the files on your computer - navigate to the file you want to upload and double click it. Now scroll to the bottom of the [image upload] screen and click 'upload'. Might take a few moments depending on your connection speed.
Do you know how to tell the size of a file? You should check this first. Files in the 50K to 100K range are ideal size. Bigger is okay, but please don't upload anything crazy like a 1 megabyte (1000K) file. If you have one that is too big ask for more help and we'll show you how to make it smaller before uploading.
Once the file uploads the system will tell you how to put it in a post. Basically the system gives your photo a number, say 4312, and to include it in a post (or comment) just put <[4312]> into the post and the system will do the rest.
Let me know if you have any trouble.
Someday we will make some documentation...
- jim 3-03-2004 8:26 pm [add a comment]
Thanks jim. (see when you ask "what's the worst that can happen?" you get annoying folks like me)
- selma 3-03-2004 8:32 pm [add a comment]
This is a test
- testtest 2-23-2004 8:29 pm [add a comment]