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I just deleted the systemnews/help page! I wrote the post below in preview mode on that page originally. When I switched to "regular post," the post and everything preceding it disappeared. I hope it's all retrievable.
I used the use-your-own-html feature to create the first of two thumbnail pages for my Doris Piserchia cover gallery last night, and I'm pretty happy with it. As you can see, Jim, I treated the page as a blank slate and dumped everything into the "opening html" box. I don't have footers, edit capability, or a navigation bar at the bottom, but for this type of page (non-posting) I didn't really need them. The links at the bottom take you back to digitalmediatree and the DP Site, and I used /editpage at the end of the URL to edit. I created this page on the tree rather than the @home server partly to try out the html feature, but also, frankly, because I would have been up all night creating the same pages and loading them onto @home. Their ftp requires that you log out and log back on for every page or image transferred!
The jpegs are a bit larger, memory-wise, than I'd like--it's always a balance between clarity and speed. That's another reason I didn't want to split the cover gallery between a slide show on one server and thumbnails on another.
Just for future reference, what is "closing html" for? Is that where the navigation bar goes? If I copied the navigation bar from your html, would that incorporate the "invisible to non-members" (or not) aspect?
I tested the new add-a-username-to-the-comment feature on treehouse. It works fine. Thanks, Jim. One comment: putting "not signed in" after the username may make the guest wonder how he or she can sign in. At worst, s/he will waste a lot of time clicking around trying to figure out how to sign in (and there's nothing on the site that really explains how); at best s/he'll feel left out. I'm not saying we need more instructions--just the illusion of democracy.