There have been a smattering of small updates to the site:

1.) Hit logging extended information now displays the date of the hit (it used to just display the time)
2.) When you upload an image to an album, it has a autoset rank of '255.' Remember the rank number determines when it shows up in your album ('255' would show up later than '1'). In all, the gallery ranking system will be complemented with a more automated system when we roll out Tabulas Gallery 2.0.
3.) There was a minor big bug involving anonymous users. After we implemented the "filtered e-mailing" system to protect the e-mail addresses of those anonymous commenters, we realized we had made a typo which basically led to no e-mails being sent to those users when you select the "e-mail" function. This should now be fixed.
4.) The input textbox for your entries now uses 12px font ... nothing big.
5.) For those of you taking advantage of your RSS feed (located at /rss/username.rss), you'll notice that we fixed up an error regarding the output of the RSS feed ... our login system used to make your username whatever you typed in when you logged in (e.g. 'tabulas' and 'TABULAS' would be the same). However, in the former case, a RSS feed would be generated at /rss/tabulas.rss while in the latter case a RSS feed would be generated at /rss/TABULAS.rss. This is now fixed - however your name is cased when you register is now the 'default' way your name is displayed.
6.) Oops. Your website link only allowed for 36 characters, which kinda sucked if you had a long URL. We've fixed this to 100 characters and auto-upgraded the database for anyone who didn't put in a http:// link.
7.) Autolinks have been switched back to case sensitive.

You can go take a look at the documentation page, which is still under construction. We'll soon be adding more detailed explanations of all the features.

Note: The custom entries output (under Styles » Entry Format) portion if broken. We will be fixing that in a little bit.
Posted by tabulas on August 19, 2003 at 01:02 PM | 63 Comments

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Comment posted on September 11th, 2003 at 02:11 PM
A real issue this time:
If I don't select any albums and hit "edit albums" I get:
You have an error in your SQL syntax near ') ORDER BY albumRank' at line 2

just a "fail gracefully" thing.
Comment posted on September 11th, 2003 at 02:08 PM
In my control panel, I have reordered albums but they still appear in the same order as they were created.

If I go to "edit albums" they show up in the proper order tho.
Comment posted on September 11th, 2003 at 02:09 PM
ack... nevermind. this was a caching issue!! silly me :P
Comment posted on September 12th, 2003 at 02:20 AM
Haha phew. I had no idea how to solve it :-P

soulxrelease (guest)

Comment posted on September 10th, 2003 at 10:54 PM
Whenever I try creating a stylesheet (simple mode) to change the colors, after I enable it my entries don't show up anymore. I checked to make sure that I made all the text black on a white background, but to no avail.

If Tabulas is entirely funded by paid accounts, why not ask for donations?
Comment posted on September 10th, 2003 at 11:36 PM
Hrrrrm. Can you try enabling it for me or tell me what the name of your CSS file is so I can take a look at it?

Honestly I'm not comfortable taking money for Tabulas yet - there's a lot to be fixed and until I feel like it's a solid product, I'm not really comfortable asking for donations... but if you feel like supporting the site, feel free to get a paid account ;)

soulxrelease (guest)

Comment posted on September 11th, 2003 at 01:43 AM
= All the drop down menus for colors disappeared... when I enabled it nothing happened.

And there's no link to 'content' in the navigation for the Pikachu template. ^-^
Comment posted on September 11th, 2003 at 12:36 PM
Hrm. What's the name of the CSS file you're trying to implement?

I've fixed up the no Content links problem. I never realized that before ... thanks =)
Comment posted on September 10th, 2003 at 07:46 PM
Hi, whenever I create and enable a custom entry format, my journal entries don't appear on my site. I've refreshed the page many times but it doesn't work, could you please help? Thanks.
Comment posted on September 10th, 2003 at 08:03 PM
read the last sentence of the entry you just commented in :)
Comment posted on September 10th, 2003 at 08:13 PM
Er...not even that entry shows up, even though it's a public one.
Comment posted on September 10th, 2003 at 08:23 PM
oh, never mind!! I'm sorry! ;(
Comment posted on September 10th, 2003 at 01:57 AM
hey i'm trying to set my gallery index image. it shows up correctly when i access my gallery thru the public page, but when i access thru the control panel (http://www.tabulas.com/private/gallery.php) it has the default "select an index album image" pic.
Comment posted on September 11th, 2003 at 02:07 PM
Hrm. What album and what image? I just tried it on one of mine and it seemed to work fine ...
Comment posted on September 9th, 2003 at 08:57 PM
when i go to make a new colorscheme, it doesnt let me. i tried a million times, and refreshed the page. whats the deal w/ it?
Comment posted on September 9th, 2003 at 10:20 PM
Somehow I think being a bit more descriptive than "it doesn't let me" woudl be more helpful. Does the page not load? Does it give you an error? Does the browser crash? Can you, and then it doesn't do anything?
Comment posted on September 8th, 2003 at 10:21 PM
also, how come the times are wrong on the entries? i set my timezone to GMT+7, yet it shows up a day ahead. * I'm really liking this place so far. :)
Comment posted on September 8th, 2003 at 10:32 PM
I'm not sure. Are you sure you're not setting the time ahead manually for each entry?
Comment posted on September 9th, 2003 at 04:57 PM
I figured it out. The clock on my desktop was not synchronized correctly. :P
Comment posted on September 8th, 2003 at 08:37 PM
whenever i click on a friend's link it points here:
http://www.tabulas.com/~christina/home.php?user=[someuser]
instead of:
http://www.tabulas.com/home.php?user=[someuser]
Comment posted on September 8th, 2003 at 10:30 PM
Problem should be fixed =)
Comment posted on September 6th, 2003 at 01:23 PM
Er just to say how do I post into a shared journal, as I can't figure it out.
Comment posted on September 6th, 2003 at 01:56 PM
under advanced entry, just check the boxes next to your shared journal.
Comment posted on September 5th, 2003 at 09:52 PM
hey mystery person TABULAS... whoever u claim to be... ah keke :D

wuddup royboy! i gots a complaint? yeah... so like you know when you go under "manage friends" and then u click on people's website links... it don't come up... the url is something like..."www.tabulas.com/users/kahkulakee" but it doesn't pop up... so i end up changing the url manually to "www.tabulas.com/~kahkulakee" and that usually works :)
Comment posted on September 6th, 2003 at 01:56 PM
ooooh i shall fix this IMMEDIATELY!
Comment posted on September 2nd, 2003 at 01:42 PM
roy, question, pop over to my site, how do i change that top tabulas navigation menu with the "Please Read | Tabulas Home etc etc" can i change the style and look of it? I think i can coz i saw Kyle changed his, how do i do that? Also it has a maybe 10px gap from the top...any ideas how to fix that? i cant seem to figure it out. :S
Comment posted on September 2nd, 2003 at 02:04 PM
No, there is not a way to change the style of that top bar. I'm not sure how Kyle got his changed ... I'm guessing he is just spoofing it.

As for your 10px offset, the best thing I can think of is that you didn't set the body margins to 0px.

MacDaddyTatsu (guest)

Comment posted on August 29th, 2003 at 10:59 PM
Roy...would you like a professional quality graphic logo? Contact me if you do MAIL ME
Comment posted on August 30th, 2003 at 12:03 AM
thanks for the offer, but i'm quite satisfied with what i have right now :)

Daniel (guest)

Comment posted on August 29th, 2003 at 09:01 AM
roy, how about considering this for the next release of tabulas: custom categories for posts. (like how it is on MT.) and then display the categories on our archives page. i think this will make going through old posts a lot easier and more interesting.
Comment posted on August 29th, 2003 at 11:09 AM
yep, categories will be in the next version of tabulas :)
Comment posted on August 28th, 2003 at 11:05 PM
Is it possible to have a "comment template". I think it would look nicer if each comment was more spread apart from the other ones and if the user icons/usernames were valigned at the top instead of the middle.
Comment posted on August 29th, 2003 at 12:30 AM
it will be in the next release of tabulas journal, whcih won't be for a while (i'm preoccupied with other projects at the moment)

MacDaddyTatsu (guest)

Comment posted on August 29th, 2003 at 12:12 AM
Thats a great idea, Wendi! Never really thought about it, but its true!

MacDaddyTatsu (guest)

Comment posted on August 28th, 2003 at 03:25 AM
I tired just a bit ago to create a custom entry type, but now my blog is only showing the "Last 5 entries" link and no entries. Is this a bug? Can you reset my entry styles?

I went to "control panel-->styles-->entry format" to reset it, but it doesnt work. Any clues?

MacDaddyTatsu (guest)

Comment posted on August 28th, 2003 at 03:51 AM
NM...I guess. I used a defult style sheet and all is well more or less.
Comment posted on August 27th, 2003 at 09:31 PM
ROY!!! i have an *urgent* question ;)--- what exactly does the "just friends' function do? B/c i have an entry that i want only certain ppl to read, mainly those that I have on MY friends list. .. not necessarily those who have ME on their's. you get? and then i guess what does "private" mean--? that only i can read?? sorry~ i'm a babo, what can u expect! THANKS!!!!!
Comment posted on August 27th, 2003 at 10:39 PM
by default, all tabulas functions that refer to "friends only" refers to people YOU list as friends. people who list you as a friend have no special powers =)

so setting a journal entry in "friends only" will allow anyone who YOU list as a friend to read it, but no one else.

private is just for yourself.

MacDaddyTatsu (guest)

Comment posted on August 27th, 2003 at 07:42 PM
I want to have a paid account. How do I do that? I want more space and what have you, but I am a lazy bastard and want a quick fix to tell me how to get paid service.
Comment posted on August 27th, 2003 at 10:39 PM
more space for ... you have 6 images!

MacDaddyTatsu (guest)

Comment posted on August 28th, 2003 at 01:42 AM
yes and I have 67 more that I want to upload and cant decide which to cut. (Mostly of me and my honey for the family in Okinawa)
Comment posted on August 28th, 2003 at 11:14 AM
but for you i'll give you 500 space for images if you want :P

MacDaddyTatsu (guest)

Comment posted on August 29th, 2003 at 12:13 AM
Your too cool, Roy!
Comment posted on August 28th, 2003 at 11:14 AM
http://www.tabulas.com/?paid
Comment posted on August 26th, 2003 at 08:45 PM
heyy how do i delete pictures off my site?
Comment posted on August 26th, 2003 at 09:08 PM
hit the little red trash can button next to your pictures in your gallery admin panel.
Comment posted on August 25th, 2003 at 10:35 AM
A weird problem with my Gallery. Whenever I upload any image, it gets uploaded twice. Quite weird to see doubles of images floating everywhere
Comment posted on August 26th, 2003 at 09:08 PM
doubles? weird.
Comment posted on August 26th, 2003 at 11:05 AM
Oh, and a request. Can we have the ability to reorder our Links? Right now my links are rather messy and I'd like some way to organize them. Thanks!
Comment posted on August 22nd, 2003 at 05:58 AM
Why does the entry format thingy dont work? i created my own format and when I enabled it, it doesnt show up... even the existing ones dont show up...
Comment posted on August 22nd, 2003 at 01:06 PM
Why don't you read the last two sentences of this post ;)
Comment posted on August 22nd, 2003 at 09:29 PM
lol..sorry
Comment posted on August 21st, 2003 at 09:21 PM
on the "manage friend page", when you click on the page icon to get to the user's site, you get a 404 error to the old http://www.tabulas.com/users/username address.

also, i wasn't quite sure what that icon meant until now. maybe something more specific, or the letters www might be clearer? not sure.
Comment posted on August 21st, 2003 at 12:20 PM
my blogring command doesnt work on custom templates, is it just me?
Comment posted on August 21st, 2003 at 12:31 PM
<!--sharedjournals-->
Comment posted on August 21st, 2003 at 04:53 PM
Ah thank you roy! :D
Comment posted on August 20th, 2003 at 08:04 AM
is it possible for hit logging to work in such a way that it doesn't count my visiting my own site in?

eg.. I'm logged in, then I visit my own site. hit logging recognises that I'm visiting own site, so it doesn't count.

Is it possible? That way I can have a better gauge of the number of people who visit my site.

And yeah, thanks for preventing search engine robots from crawling into my site! :-D
Comment posted on August 20th, 2003 at 04:10 PM
Great idea! It's been implemented.
Comment posted on August 20th, 2003 at 02:14 AM
Another bug! The last comment captured some of the previous one, although it wasn't in the entry box.
Comment posted on August 20th, 2003 at 02:13 AM
Oops! That list was supposed to be nicely numbered, but the tags didn't work.
Comment posted on August 20th, 2003 at 02:11 AM
Problems with tabulas
The web site you enter on the profile page gets truncated (in my case after 36 characters), so the link doesn't work.
The "links" require a description. Some links are self-explanatory and the description just takes up valuable screen space. Besides, you can give the link any text you want.
You have the "hit logging" tab even when it's not available to free subscribers, but you don't tell us that.
The autolink page says that you need to be case-sensitive, but regardless of the case you enter, the program changes to the case of the link, so you can't avoid the link by deliberately changing the case. This means you can't use the word in another context without getting the link.
The "expand" feature (i.e. clicking on the ellipse) doesn't work in the Edit Entries screen. You get an HTTP404 error. An example of the url is:
http://www.tabulas.com/entries_ext.php?user=arnie_flangehead&expand=9604
If I use an hr tag, the editor puts in /hr tags at the end of post even though no such tag exists!
Anonymous people who leave comments have their e-mail address shown in the e-mail sent to the site-holder.
If you reply to an anonymous commenter, the text above the comment box changes to, for instance:
You are currently replying to comment #11466 by
Reply to no one
Would it be possible to have the name the person entered displayed?
If you go to the feedback log, then click on 'View in entry context', then click on 'Reply to this comment', you get an HTTP040 error. An example of the url is: http://www.tabulas.com/~/reply9466_11466.html
However the same function works from other screens.

Wish List
It would be great to have a "preview" function for the post, since quite a lot of HTML needs to be put in to get formatting effects/links, etc.
There's no place to put an e-mail address (so people can contact you). Ideally the address itself would be shielded so the sender wouldn't know what it is. They would just click on a link and enter their text in a box.
When you post the entry, it's a bit pointless to go to a screen that gives you a link to edit it if you made any mistakes. How could you possibly know until you see the result? I would prefer to be taken automatically to 'Your Site'.
Comment posted on August 21st, 2003 at 11:55 AM
phew. ok. let me try to go down this list one by one.

the website length should now be 100 characters instead of 25.

autolinking has been switched back to case sensitive.

phew. was that it?
description in links is no longer required (yeah, this was something i had meant to fix, it's annoying for me too :X)

the hr tag problem has been fixed. it was a problem with our HTML cleaner.

hit logging for free users is partially enabled (the AIM logging portion only ... and it's the only one that is displayed)

the 'expand feature' under edit entries was fixed.

replying to anonymous username has been fixed.

the "reply to" link should be fixed under 'feedback log &gt; context &gt; reply"

as for the automatic redirecting to your site upon entry addition, it makes sense ... i'll look into adding it as an optional option in the near future (will notify you when i do).

will also look into hidden e-mail option.
Comment posted on August 22nd, 2003 at 05:04 AM
What about the HTML previewer before posting? ;)