Tabulas 0.999999 is now in effect. This basically features a completely rehashed UI for the admin panel. The templates have also been standardized to use the same CSS tables ...

Unfortunately the timing of this release is horrible. I leave tomorrow until mid-July and will be unable to fix any bugs nor reply to any comments and such. As this site is still considered beta (by me), I will not implement any restrictions yet. Please continue to report any problems you have with the site.

Some changes that occured during upgrade to Tabulas 0.99999:
1.) Stickied entries were lost
2.) Entries with attached images were lost (for the moment). This should be fixed once I get back.
3.) All color schemes were lost (this was announced and intentional). Please feel free to recreate your color schemes, though =).
4.) All anonymouse usernames were reset to allow for the new comment changes.

Some new features:
1.) Autolinks
Associate keywords in your entries with links. Just try it out to understand how it works =) Autolinks only work when you post an entry; edited entries are not subjected to autolinks.

2.) Automated Linking
If you put in a URL directly into your entry, Tabulas will detect this and automatically create a link for you.

3.) Inline Image Inputting
There is now a tag that will input an image from your gallery into your entry instead of having to type out the full HTML. Simply grab the ID of the image (which is the last 4 set of numbers in the URL for any image ... for instance the URL http://www.tabulas.com/~roy/gallery/album209/1813.html has an image with ID of 1813), then put this into your journal entry: (img:ID Number) ... use brackets instead of parenthesis. It will input your image.

4.) Completely revamped gallery
The gallery UI was lacking. There is now mass edit options which will hopefully make managing your galleries less cumbersome. Please try out the new system =) There is also additional border options - nested, B&W, etc. Go to your 'Add Images' page to see more options.

5.) Crossposting
Crossposting has now been moved to a more permanent location ("Entry Options"). Since most people who crosspost do so on a consistent basis, we've decided to do this and move it all on one page. If you input a LJ username, it will also not require you to input your username/password. A time error on the old LJ crossposting was fixed (the time would always set to 7pm). Pinging Weblogs.com has also been added if you want to add your journal.

6.) Backing Up Journal
You now have an option to back up your journal; but you may do so only once every two weeks. All journals are generated in both HTML and RSS feeds for easy implementation and saves.

7.) Upgraded UI across the board
Most, if not all the pages were upgraded to newer designs in the admin panel. This also involved a careful rewrite of a lot of code ... bah!

8.) Entry Formatting
You may not custom-edit your entry outputs; everything in your journal is now mostly customizable.

9.) 'Blogring-Only Postings'
Essentially the same thing as 'private.' Used to differentiate personal posts and private posts.

10.) Ranking Gallery Pictures
Ok this was kind of tricky. You can now order your pictures in your gallery, but you must put in manual numbers. The script will order based on the numbers you input. As long as one image has a greater number, it will appear after another image. You will see 'Rebuild Indices' links in your gallery. If you find that your numbering system has gone completely wacko, you can use the 'Rebuild' function to reorder. It will basically order your whole gallery and set nice integer numbers (1, 2, 3, etc.) so it's easier to manage.
Read more for things to do.

- Fix up shared journal pages. Remove all references to 'blogring' and change to 'shared journals.'
- Images attached via entry attachment are acting up. Why?
- Easier templating options
- Nothing on the user's templates has changed. There will be options to select templates for comment output as well as gallery. Each template will be as robust as the admin UI.
- Moderators have options in blogrings to edit posts
- Hit logging has been _completely_ disabled. Need to work on a nice new function
- help.tabulas.com - tutorials for how to use tabulas, aimed at completely internet beginners
- users.tabulas.com - a "yellow pages" for tabulas members
- automated linking - editing entry yields multiple nested links.
- song of the moment / book of the moment - sometimes the case of the words gets off. fix that.
- explicit entry status; right now there's no way to detect whether an entry is sticky ...
- more templates!
- limited HTML (autolinks also) allowed in comments
- extended comment replies
- advqnced - shared journals seems screwy in general
- gallery thumbnails not sizing
- gallery privacy levels
- treat anonymous comments like real comments