Journal 10,000
I couldn't wait any more. It was at 9999 for like 5 minutes. I am so excited that the site has made it this far. I hope that in the near future we will expand it even further we some PR help from e:ladycroft and e:mike …
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I couldn't wait any more. It was at 9999 for like 5 minutes. I am so excited that the site has made it this far. I hope that in the near future we will expand it even further we some PR help from e:ladycroft and e:mike …
userpic maker http://www.elmwoodstrip.com/elmwood/edit_image/userpic_maker.php can be used to crop a user pic based on an image from the internet. Try finding one on google images. Simply input the image url and hit go!…
I have added categories to the site. Seeing as this is a community the categories are cross-user. That means, when you add a category, everyone else can use that category. It is ok if teh actegories are specific, we wil…
I have been debating and debating what to do with the site. I think I have decided not to go with the home connection for my $4000 superserver because I don't want the responsibility of keeping it up, seeing as I cannot…
I just added a new option for Here is a link to google, even whole sentences can be links now. I renders like this: Here is a link to google, even whole sentences can be links now. I also made it so that the e:name link…
In this case I am refering to the code running the site and not the site or community itself. I think after some time documenting and organzing I am going to make an e:strip lite that is totally open source and comes wi…
I took a break from writing to get some data. Here a made a little fun toy to play with http://www.elmwoodstrip.com/elmwood/archives/publish_data.php?u=southernyankee It turns each entry written by the user into a littl…
They at least work in Firefox and IE 6. The rest of you with win 98 aol browser, I have no idea. Here they are: You can hit ctrl +m from any journal to be taken to your publish box. Once at your publish box you can now …
You can now upload, store and manage multiple userpics. To select the one you want as your default userpic, just click on it. When it turns red around the border you are set to go. You can use this same gallery to delet…
I am going to be leaving for camping in tomorrow and just wanted to go over the updatees real quick before I go to bed. 1. The news journal is no longer a group journal. No one else was using it, and it just took longer…
I am getting ready for camping today. We are going to the adirondacks starting tomorrow and lasting for a week. We will be really far away from people. The campsite is on an island in the middle of a lake on state land.…
I deleted just about everyone who signed up over a couple months ago and had zero entries. It was time that I cut back the fat from the database and they were ready to go at this point. It was hard to decide on for a lo…
When you write a journal, the local temperature is appended to the entry. You can see the temperature in the date string at the top of any new entry that you write. >>Posted By: paul
whisper tag There is a new journal tag called whisper, it is written like this Here is something to whisper, you could include images or anything . He is a live example that only members can see Whenever you put anythin…
I "dried out" one year of estrip chat and turned it into an html file of the whole year. I might break it into installments later but for now it is on one page http://www.elmwoodstrip.com/elmwood/archives/chat.html Also…
Well, now that we found a topic journalist, the next most important thing is a server admin and/or a reliable local hosting facility. Here http://elmwoodstrip.org/elmwood/server.html is the link to the official request …
Everyone should try out fast mode, if you are using firefox or IE 6.0 - you can enable it in your prefs. It allows the journals to load really fast from the top twelve list using xmlHTTP so that it does not have to load…
We met the new topics author at spot today. I think that topic articles will make an interesting and exciting contribution to the site. Basically, the idea being that we start an online magazine of sorts with articles a…
I upgraded the comments system to include email alerts. This makes it easy to find out when someone posts comments on old journal entries. By default, when someone leaves you a comment, the comment plus a link to the jo…
I redid the send blog system that you can use to send the blogs to other people. If you would like to send an entry to another person via email, simply click on the envelope at the bottom of any entry and fill out the f…
At the request of e:shawnr the comment system has been activated. At the request of e:matthew an option has been created to turn it of for your own journal. Now everyone can be happy! Comments are enabled by default. On…
Profiles and UserSounds- The profiles have been restyled a bit. I will work on it more later. Usersounds have been moved to the user profiles. To get to your profile, click on the link in the user stats area under your …
There were a bunch of updates today, most of them won't be obvious on the surface but I will recap the ones that are. 1. New temporary look while I transition from one display code set to another. 2. p:labs Site Wide St…
You now can send post-it messages to mulitple members, making it easier to invite people to parties, announce things, etc. To use this feature, you must be logged in. Click on your post-it control panel and then click o…