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Weird. The mysql (database) server went down. Not sure why. That doesn't seem too good. It's restarted now, and appears to be OK.
My heartfelt appologies to Jim Louis. After the most recent system change, Email from NOLA was accidently dropped from the front page for non signed in people. My friend Pam from Montana wrote complaining about this, as it is her favorite page. This is now fixed. Sorry sorry sorry.
[upload] is now improved (well, ok, it's different, we'll see if people think it is improved.) It's a little more complicated now, but I think it will be worth it. There is one more change I am still going to make, but that will just be cosmetic.
First of all, I've changed the wording a bit. When making albums there are now three album types. Shared, public, and private. A shared album is what I was (confusingly) calling public before. A shared album can be viewed by anyone, and more importantly, anyone can add pictures to it. A public album can be viewed by anyone, but only you can add pictures to it (this is the default.) A private album can only be viewed by you (and only you can add to it.)
You should try not to make shared albums unless there is a real reason (because these go into everyone lists, so if there is no reason it just makes everybody's lists longer.)
The other change is that you can now make albums inside of albums (inside of albums, inside of albums, etc...) You do this right on the [upload] page. If you uploading a picture and you enter a new album name in the space provided, you then select whether the new album is shared, public, or private, and then under that you can optionally choose an already existing album to which your new album we be a sub album.
So, for instance, I made an album called Austria 2002, and then I am uploading pictures into sub albums (like, 'Knoll winer', and 'Hundertwasser'.) When you view an album in list view it will tell you at the top if there are any sub albums (and give you a link.) If you are viewing a sub album in list view it will tell you the parent album (and give you a link.)
The one cosmetic change still to make is to have the sub albums listed indented under their parent albums in all the lists of albums (right now every album - top level, or below another album - list in one flat list.)
Also, when you view one of your albums in list view you can now do some editing (changing the album name, and the album type - shared, public, private) at the bottom of the page.
Hopfully this will seem more clear once you play around with it. Suggestions wanted. No doubt there will be some bugs.
Hey Steve, or anyone else who was seeing this: are the question marks gone from the nested comment pages?
Were people's cookies expiring every time you quit your browser? This shouldn't be the case, but I think that is what was happening. Should be fixed now.
There is a problem with logging in. I'm working on it. Don't log out if you don't have to.
Did I mention this already?
If you are a page owner you can turn on 'substitutions' near the bottom of [editpage]. With this on you can add post, editpage, and create links in any permanent text area (left text or top text for 2 column table pages) by putting
_post_
_editpage_
_create_
into those permaent text areas. These will be replaced with post, editpage, and create links only in those cases where the visitor has those specific powers. Other visitors won't see anything.
To force a line break after each one add a * to the end like:
_post_*
So this line will make the three links one on top of the other for people that have those powers, but won't make anything for people that don't:
_post_*_editpage_*_create_*
Not a big deal, but it can be useful to get those links closer to the top of your page so you don't have to scroll to the bottom navigation line.
OK, you can revert to the old new comment style (one thread at a time) in [settings]. Also there is a a 1 column table template now if you are [create]ing new pages which will center your text (or pictures.)
You can see the 10 most recently updated pages on the site at this url:
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/mostrecent/.
Visitors to the site see this link from the front page. Is that a good idea? Does it look weird? How could it look better? (Yeah, you'll have to log out to see it like they would.)
There was a bug where [edit] links for posts would not work if you were viewing a /newcomments/ page. Should work now.