Week of 12/13/04
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 | How to link to your gravatar? - If you create a new user profile and provide your e-mail address, YACS will automatically use your http://www.gravatar.com/, if one exists.
Or maybe your user profile has been defined some times ago, and you want to change it to benefit from your brand new gravatar?
Since YACS combines your gravatar with the library of avatar files at one single page, switching to a new avatar becomes as simple as clicking on an image.
» File uploaded on Aug. 28 2007 In Membership |
| | How to use the side panel? - The side panel is a convenient form featured at the left of the browsing window. It is aiming to let you prepare your next blog entry during a normal surfing session. » Page reviewed on Dec. 14 2004 In Authoring |
| | 18,750,552 gravatars served - http://www.gravatar.com/ seems to be quite successful » Commented on Dec. 14 2004 In Post your requirements here |
| | A few questions - After succesfully installing YACS I have some questions.. » Commented on Dec. 14 2004 In Installation support |
 | Dec-12, sidebar editor, gravatar, page locator and more - With this release we have added a handy feature for bloggers: a smart side panel form to post new articles. If you are using Firefox 1.0, Mozilla 7 or Internet Explorer 6, you can authenticate to your favorite YACS server, visit the Control Panel, and click to add a side panel to the browser window. Then browse as usual, and push some text in the side fields to develop your blog entry. When you are ready, click on the submit button to push the new page to your site.
With all these communities we are involved in today there is this common issue to register again and again. Some weeks ago we introduced the Drupal login RPC interface to allow for some centralisation of user profiles. Today we are moving forward with the support of gravatars. Simply stated, a gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is an 80×80 pixel avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog. If you provide an e-mail address to YACS, it will be checked against the http://www.gravatar.com/ to load any defined gravatar you can have. With gravatars, we do have a simple system to spread our visual appearance across web sites.
YACS now also has a page locator, which is aiming to streamline the usage of nick names. YACS is supporting nick names for a long-time for articles, categories, sections and also for user profiles. Nick names are good, except that you have to remember the kind of things they are referencing.
For example to view the user profile associated with the nick name 'foo' you have to use the URL '/yacs/users/view.php/foo'. But to view the category with the nick name 'bar' you would use '/yacs/categories/view.php/bar' instead.
The page locator will take care of nick names at a central place.
This means that to look for user 'foo' or for category 'bar' now you just have to submit nick names to the page locator with either '/yacs/go.php/foo' or '/yacs/go.php/bar'. » Page edited on Dec. 13 2004 In Releases |
