Consider this your fair warning...

As some of you know, we are still rewriting the control panel and most of Tabulas for the 2.0 release.

However, in order to switch our templating system over to the newly planned system, we will have to break almost all old stylesheets and templates.

This means that if you're using a special stylesheet for Tabulas, you will lose it.

If you have a custom template, we will make an effort to switch your template over to the new system, but there are absolutely no guarantees ...

We will try to update you when we get closer to the transition date for our new templating engine system.
Posted by tabulas on May 29, 2004 at 04:24 PM in General News | 67 Comments

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Comment posted on July 5th, 2004 at 07:47 AM
Hey. Is it possible to set my background as a picture? As in I don\'t want my background as a colour only, I want it to be a picture of a cartoon or something. Is it possible?

ishy (guest)

Comment posted on June 16th, 2004 at 11:04 PM
Hi.

The template in this one <a href=\"http://www.tabulas.com/~ishy/friends.html\">page</a> of my site screwed up a bit. Every other page is alright except for that one. I\'d appreciate the help. Thanks! :)

chinkychinky (guest)

Comment posted on June 16th, 2004 at 02:40 AM
how do i put music codes in my blog?
is this one of the paid features for the site?
Comment posted on June 16th, 2004 at 03:21 AM
You can put music in your blog by copy-pasting a mid file instead of a picture file to your img src.
Comment posted on July 26th, 2004 at 10:42 PM
hey I tryed everything to put a midi file in my site but I just can\'t i tryed uploading a midi file as an image and it still didn\'t work. What should I do?
Comment posted on June 14th, 2004 at 09:08 PM
I went through pay pals this past weekend in order to obtain the cool features that are available for the $28/yr. However, I keep getting restricted notices and so forth. My login is pjyoungb, and I\'ll let you email me in order to reply. I\'m assuming it\'s some sort of hang up between you and pay pals, but could you give some sort of indication of how long the process normally takes?
Thanks.
Comment posted on June 16th, 2004 at 12:22 AM
Soorry about the delay; I never received an e-mail from you regarding which account was yours (as was requested on the paid accounts page).

I would normally fire off an e-mail to get it to you, but I\'ve been without internet access for a bit.

In any case, your account is upgraded. Thanks so mcuh! 8)
Comment posted on June 13th, 2004 at 04:18 AM
hey :) i have a problem regarding the templating. i made a new template for my tabulas but the gallery part, profile and comment box seems not to be working. everyting looks really messed up whenever you go to any of this part. any tips on how i can \'fix\' this problem?
Comment posted on June 11th, 2004 at 08:48 PM
hi. i can\'t see my current entry in my site and I don\'t know why. It\'s written in my Control Panel but I can\'t see it in my site. help?
Comment posted on June 10th, 2004 at 11:33 PM
if you want us to pay this site delete me the reason why i joined tabulas is to write stories for free
and if you cant pay this site stop it
Comment posted on June 10th, 2004 at 03:05 AM
tabulas adds everyone.
Comment posted on June 9th, 2004 at 09:19 PM
u added me as a fren?
Comment posted on June 9th, 2004 at 05:54 PM
What do you do if you are starting an account and your e-mail was not received, so you can not access your site? I already have a site, but I am trying to help a friend. :);):)
Comment posted on June 9th, 2004 at 08:42 PM
Sign up with a new account, double-check the information, and wait for the e-mail.

In 30 days, the original name you wanted will have returned to the \"name pool.\" Once that happens, change your username to the original.
Comment posted on June 9th, 2004 at 05:40 PM
aaawww...

Anonymous (guest)

Comment posted on June 9th, 2004 at 04:31 PM
24.189.105.134 US UNITED STATES NEW YORK MEDFORD OPTIMUM ONLINE (CABLEVISION SYSTEMS) You\'re the one who posted that on my site mr. bigshot! Nice job mr. NY! I see your legal practices now!
Comment posted on June 9th, 2004 at 10:17 AM
you know towards the top right side corner of the tabulas journal page, there\'ll be the home, gallery link etc...how do i add more links to that? like my friendster link etc?
Comment posted on June 9th, 2004 at 04:26 PM
Edit your template.

Star (guest)

Comment posted on June 8th, 2004 at 09:45 PM
Okay so are you guys going to do anything about this <a href="http://www.tabulas.com/~minzywee">http://www.tabulas.com/~minzywee</a> or not because I want it off this site now! It\'s eating up my bandwidth & I will press charges if you don\'t do anything about it. I think you should re-write your conditions for your site & have a better way of contacting you, this is redicolous to leave a message in this stupid journal! I want it down now & to have a response asap!

Star,

<a href="http://www.star-dom.com">http://www.star-dom.com</a>

Star (guest)

Comment posted on June 10th, 2004 at 10:10 PM
Everything has been straightened out now. I worded the darn post wrong, I apologized to Roy about it & it seems to be all good now.

I am not a wicked bitch (so it might seem sometimes from the crap I have written, I was just pissed off). I have it all explained on my site, if you would care to go read it. It\'s just something stupid that went way to far & I apoplexy to everyone.

I am not on the computer to make enemies. I have never had any problems with anyone before, I don\'t enjoy flying off the handle. I think everything was just a huge misunderstanding.

As I said everything is explained more deeply on my blog, I will go post this to Roys journal too, just to let everyone know, thanks.

Anonymous (guest)

Comment posted on June 10th, 2004 at 10:11 PM
I meant apologize not apoplexy, ahahaha, damn spell checker, hehehe. Doh!
Comment posted on June 9th, 2004 at 01:01 AM
Your whiny little rant isn\'t going to solve any problems.

Suggestions: Talk to the person and resolve the issue privately. I have 20,000 people, and I\"m currently travelling in Korea. I don\'t have time to resolve every little dispute from every little webmaster that is getting ripped off by someone who is using my services.

If the person refuses to solve the issue privately, forward all relevant emails to roy-at-no-spam-neopages-com and I will take further action against the users.

Waving a \"legal\" flag where you threaten to \"press charges\" if i don\'t do anything doesn\'t scare me; I\'m quite aware of the legal position this site holds, so perhaps your little legal rant should be held towards more ignorant webmasters.

If you want to immediately solve teh bandwidth problem, use a .htaccess to deny outside accessers of your images. It\'s as simple as that.

If you would like to continue this conversation more civilly, you can email me at the address above. You will find me more accomodating to your requests if you don\'t go around calling this journal \"stupid.\"

Star (guest)

Comment posted on June 9th, 2004 at 03:43 PM
Roy,

Excuse me, but you could have written to me earlier & I wouldn\'t have needed
to call anything stupid. Why not post your e-mail to begin with. And if your
site is so porfessional why don\'t you have proper staff & a proper way to
contact you then? I was frustrated because I did try to contact the person
by leaving a comment on her journal, thank you very much, other then that I
have no clue as to who this person is, as I am sure you do,since you have
all her information. You my friend, can do something about it as you are a
so called not ignorent webmaster. If you\'re not so ignorent then why is this
even happening then? You could have taken the site down to begin with, as
you could see I gave the person a chance to take it down & have had no
contact from them. You can delete the account & ban her IP yourself. I am
too aware of the internet laws thank you very much, I will not stand to be
ignored & put aside when someone is stealing my stuff & posting it on your
servers. You should be a little bit more concerned about this & actually
post it in your Terms of Service?

As a member of Tabulas, you agree to the following rules:

1.) Multiple accounts may not be registered for the sole purpose of
garnering more gallery space
2.) No illegal images will be posted to Tabulas gallery (includes but is not
exclusive to child pornography)
3.) No spamming of members\' journals (either via tagboard, comments, or
simply contacting the user).
4.) No attempts to use your Tabulas journal to push pop-ups on your others
journals (via Friends/Friends Of) or to force the download of unwanted
applications.
5.) No attempts are made in hiding OR moving the top navigational grey bar
from its location at the top of the page.
6.) Acceptance of any policy changes to this TOS at any time in the future.

Tabulas reserves the right to pull any journal and any content at any time
with no notice.

Nowhere do I see this listed. So why not take the site down, she is
obviously not doing anything with it. Maybe for future little children that
sign up on your site, you should add it as a term of service.

And for your information, I am not a little webmaster, maybe you should open
your eyes & see that. Yes maybe I was a little harsh but why is it that
after I posted that 2nd comment you left a comment back & not before? I
tried to get your attention since you didn\'t seem to do anything about it in
the first place. And since there was no other way to contact anyone there. I
don\'t need to get in touch with this person since there is no way of doing
so other then leaving messages in her comment section, which I have already
done so, therefor it would be only prosedure for you to take the account
down.

Star.
Comment posted on June 9th, 2004 at 04:26 PM
Try to stop copying things from e-mails.

Anonymous (guest)

Comment posted on June 9th, 2004 at 06:18 PM
And you are???
Comment posted on June 9th, 2004 at 08:44 PM
An \"asshole\" and \"shithead,\" apparently.

Anonymous (guest)

Comment posted on June 9th, 2004 at 11:14 PM
Yeah apperantly so dude... and I guess copying from my own worded e-mail is somehow bad? But not stealing everything from someones site isn\'t? Wow you sure have your priorities straight dude :D

Anonymous (guest)

Comment posted on June 9th, 2004 at 11:14 PM
Yeah apperantly so dude... and I guess copying from my own worded e-mail is somehow bad? But not stealing everything from someones site isn\'t? Wow you sure have your priorities straight dude :D
Comment posted on June 8th, 2004 at 08:06 AM
I\'d like to make hit logging work. While i get hit counts, i don\'t get hit reports. It\'s complaining about there being no data, but that couldn\'t be because i _am_ getting hits.

This is the message when i click on hit reports:
No hit logging reports could be displayed because there is no data. Please ensure you have enabled hit logging.

I looked through your help documentation, and i do have hit logging enabled on my account.

Could you suggest anything? Thanks!
Comment posted on June 9th, 2004 at 12:58 AM
Ok, if you *have* enabled hit logging, then whenever a stranger visits your account, that data will be tracked. Currently the site automatically throws out any hits that are a result of when you are logged in. Try logging out of your account and visit your page; it will show upd ata.
Comment posted on June 9th, 2004 at 09:22 PM
Hi Roy,

That\'s strange -- i do have hit logging enabled (under the styles tab) and note that the hit counting does work. But hit reporting and the \"extended information about recent visitors\" are all blank -- despite having about 50 hits.. Is this a bug?

Thanks Roy
Comment posted on June 9th, 2004 at 11:19 PM
I will try to take a look at this in a few hours...
Comment posted on June 7th, 2004 at 12:52 AM
I can\'t download the default css files you have. It says the file wasn\'t found. Or maybe it\'s just my browser?
Comment posted on June 6th, 2004 at 02:20 AM
ok forget that, thank you :)
Comment posted on June 6th, 2004 at 02:19 AM
How do you back a template up? :S
Comment posted on June 5th, 2004 at 11:55 PM
Well, I\'ve got my blog running but when I add a new entry, it overlaps the other. Does anyone know how to fix it?

ikarimon (guest)

Comment posted on June 5th, 2004 at 04:41 PM
So do I just have to save the way my blog looks?
Comment posted on June 6th, 2004 at 12:57 AM
Save your template and entry style. Just copy and paste them into a new .htm or .html file.
Comment posted on June 5th, 2004 at 10:45 AM
Can I block some1 from my site? If so, how? :);):)
Comment posted on June 5th, 2004 at 01:14 PM
You can block either IP addresses or usernames. If you block a username, that user can view your blog if they sign in anonymously.

So, ask them their IP address, then block both that <em>and</em> the username.

It can all be done from the <a href=\"http://www.tabulas.com/private/privacy.php\">User Banning</a> page.
Comment posted on June 5th, 2004 at 05:56 PM
Thank you very much! God Bless! :);-):)
Comment posted on June 5th, 2004 at 10:44 AM
Can I block some1 from my site? If so, how? :);):)
Comment posted on June 4th, 2004 at 08:17 AM
hi..i\'m new here :) i was just wondering why the entries that i posted using the advanced mode can\'t be displayed...help!
Comment posted on June 3rd, 2004 at 12:46 PM
is anyone else\'s page repeating and acting weird like mine?
Comment posted on June 3rd, 2004 at 08:03 PM
I don\'t see a problem...

What browser are you using?
Comment posted on June 3rd, 2004 at 10:14 AM
Thanks for the early warning... I knew I won\'t have any regrets for choosing Tabulas for my blog. :)
Comment posted on June 2nd, 2004 at 12:04 PM
hi!gud day! i just wanna ask some stuffs...
why can\'t i change my image background...i have read the tabulas documentation about it but i still can\'t do it...i followed the html codings but still, i can\'t change it. another question...how can i put an image at the very top of my page? pls...kindly reply...thanx a lot!
Comment posted on June 2nd, 2004 at 04:18 PM
There\'s an easy way and an advanced way to do this.

The easy way would be to do it with HTML.

First, go to Control Panel &gt; Styles &gt; Templating and click the link that says \"build your own template page.\"

Select your default template (which is Charmander) and click \"use my existing colour scheme.\"

The textbox will fill with code. Locate the tag that says &lt;body&gt; and replace it with this:

&lt;body background=\"http://www.ugh.com/yourbackground.jpg\"&gt;

Fill in the appropriate information. The URL for your image must be the full thing, otherwise the image will tend not to load.

* * *

Now, the image at the top of page. Called a \"header\", this is done quite simply. The default tabulas templates are based on tables, so all you have to do is replace that \"paper\" image at the top.

The default code looks like this:
&lt;table border=\"0\" width=\"750\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\"&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td width=\"100%\"&gt;&lt;table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\"&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;<strong>&lt;img src=\"/images/template6/topimg.gif\" width=\"125\" height=\"67\" alt=\"*\" /&gt;</strong>&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;span class=\"sitetitle\"&gt;&lt;!--title--&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;

What you want to do is replace the bold tags above with your own.

Replace what\'s bolded with your own image, so that the code looks like this:

&lt;table border=\"0\" width=\"750\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\"&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td width=\"100%\"&gt;&lt;table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\"&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;<strong>&lt;img src=\"http://www.ugh.com/yourimage.jpg\" width=\"125\" height=\"67\" alt=\"\" /&gt;</strong>&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;span class=\"sitetitle\"&gt;&lt;!--title--&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;

Now that paper image will be replaced with one of your own.
Comment posted on June 3rd, 2004 at 12:11 PM
hi exodus!thnx a lot! its such a big help! one more question if u dont mind...how can i change my mouse pointer? does it involve html codes? pls rply...thnx a lot! :)
Comment posted on June 3rd, 2004 at 08:01 PM
It depends what you want to change it to.

If you just want to change the default cursor to another Windows/Mac compatible one, <a href=\"http://www.echoecho.com/csscursors.htm\">this tutorial</a> can help.
Comment posted on June 1st, 2004 at 06:25 AM
ey..im having a problem with displaying MY Communities. the name of the community i joined doesnt display..:( (that\'s the list thingy under the tagboard) i already tried everything and i cant find a way anymore to make it show up..
Comment posted on June 2nd, 2004 at 07:22 AM
<a href=\"http://help.tabulas.com/?docid=11\">This Help Document</a> will help.

You have to put &lt;!--sharedjournals--&gt; below your tagboard in your custom template. This will automatically generate a list of your shared journals.

Shikura (guest)

Comment posted on May 31st, 2004 at 06:18 PM
Hi I was wondering how long does it take for the e-mail confurming my account to get here?
and also how many web sites can a free user make?
PLEASE answer my questions anyone I\'m desperate people *runs out crying*
Comment posted on May 31st, 2004 at 06:08 PM
I would love to know your policy on HTML & graphic theft on your servers? You see my website is located at <a href="http://www.star-dom.com">http://www.star-dom.com</a> & user minzywee stole my stuff off of my site! Her site is <a href="http://www.tabulas.com/~minzywee">http://www.tabulas.com/~minzywee</a> I would appreciate if this person got banned or have her site deleted since this has happened. I will not tolerate anyone who steals from my site.

Thank you very much.

Star[@]star-dom[dot]com

P.S. I have already put a warning up for her & have changed all my file names so that more of my bandwidth isn\'t stolen. But I still think this needs immediate attention.
Comment posted on June 9th, 2004 at 03:06 PM
I don\'t really see what it is your bitching about. From the looks of it there MAY be a few images that they are hot-linking... but Apache has wonderful features built in for blocking that... like roy said... .htaccess my friend.... it\'s a wonderful thing.

Quit bitching at Roy, he\'s not your problem your problem is \"minzywee\". Block hot-linking and you\'ll be good. Besides, other than bandwith you shouldn\'t really care, the site sucks ass... just look at it...

Star (guest)

Comment posted on June 9th, 2004 at 03:31 PM
Excuse me but I was not bitching at Roy! First of all, I don\'t want to block hotlinking form my site since I have a few images that need to be hot linked to. Second maybe you should have responded to the second comment I left not this one, as I see no bitching involved in this comment. And you keep saying to block it all off because it\'s just so easy & that I can see the site sucks, well duh!!!!!!!!!!! I can see that it sucks but I don\'t appreciate my information being posted & stuff on there, like my name & so fourth. If it\'s just so easy to do that from my part now why isn\'t it as easy for you people to delete the darn page, huh? As easy as it is for me to do the .htaccess thing, it\'s just as easy for you to delete her since the account isn\'t being used. Now tell me why this has to be my problem when you guys don\'t have sufficient rules posted???? Stop acting like I\'m being the bitch here when you\'re not even doing anything about it yourself. Be a real so called administrator & delete it. Any other real administrator would have done so by now, seeing as how this is theft. All my error pages load when you go to the damn thing so that is taking up my bandwidth. Stop being rude & trying to act all mocho on your journal here & e-mail me personally, is that too hard for you to do. I left comments here because you have no other way of contact listed. Stop acting like I\'m the bad person, I know minzywee is the culpret here but I have had no success with her, not it\'s your part to do something. I don\'t know who she is & you do, so go do something about it.
Comment posted on May 31st, 2004 at 02:09 PM
can you at least back up our old templates for us if you can\'t make them work?
Comment posted on May 31st, 2004 at 03:51 PM
Yep, that\'s what I\'m going to try to do...

ikey (guest)

Comment posted on May 30th, 2004 at 09:16 PM
When are y\'all actually going to release 2.0? It\'s taking forever. :|
Comment posted on May 30th, 2004 at 06:28 PM
*backs up templates* Thanks for the heads up. :)

phineyae (guest)

Comment posted on May 30th, 2004 at 07:53 AM
That will work for me.. :) Thanks for the warning.

nixie_bu (guest)

Comment posted on May 29th, 2004 at 10:55 PM
whohoo! tnx for the warning :D
Comment posted on May 29th, 2004 at 09:59 PM
Thanks for the warning ^^

I\'ve backed up my template...
Comment posted on May 29th, 2004 at 08:46 PM
hehehe.. warning has dark overtones.. let this be a notice..
Comment posted on May 29th, 2004 at 06:54 PM
When is 2.0 going to be released, do you think?

Liz (guest)

Comment posted on May 29th, 2004 at 04:32 PM
Hi there.
well, i\'m such a big clutz because while i was registering for my name i imputed the wrong email address. Instead of writing miakagrrl13@yahoo.com, i simply wrote miakagrrl@yahoo.com. Because of this, i can\'t get my registration information. Can you please switch it for me or delete the account passivargressiv so that i may sign up for it again with the correct email address.

thank you very much,
sorry for the inconveinance,

Liz
Comment posted on June 2nd, 2004 at 07:24 AM
Sign up for a new account with the correct email address. After a few weeks, the username you originally signed up for will go back into \"the pool.\"

Switch your username from there.