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TastyLog is quite fond of the Silkscreen Font, created by Jason Kottke, for it's buttons, headers, menus, and other misc. text. If the title of this entry and the menu to the left is all capital letters, you have Silkscreen. If it's not, go download it and see TastyLog as it's meant to be seen. If you are a casual visitor, TastyLog does not share cookies with you.
If you are a member, and have fed your username and password to TastyLog any time during the past year, TastyLog has endowed you with a cookie containing delicious user information. If you wish to discard this cookie, simply log in incorrectly to the TastyLog Admin section, and it will be gone. TastyLog was written entirely by Pup in VBScript for ASP, with an MS Access 97 database in the background. The development machine is a P3-500 with 128MB of RAM running NT 4.0, Personal Web Server, and TextPad 4.0. This site features web-based facilities for performing all of the following:
Typical Members: - Adding Posts - Deleting Your Own Posts - Editing Your Own Posts - Editing Your Profile Admin Members: - All Typical Features - Undeleting Posts - Adding Members - Banning Members (Except Root) - Unbanning Members - Add FAQ Entries - Delete FAQ Entries - Edit FAQ Entries - Undeleting FAQ Entries Root Members: - All Admin Features - Granting Admin Access - Removing Admin Access TastyLog also makes use of the IOFilter script suite to accomplish the following: - HTML Stripping (Posts) - HTML Inclusion (FAQ Entries) - Link Parsing (Posts) - Email Parsing (Posts) - CRLF Parsing - Extraneous Space Stripping - DB Protection - Browser Protection Other misc features: - Marginally Robust Hit Counter - Linking To Individual Updates/Profiles/FAQ Entries - Cookie Utilization For Members - Database Paging For Updates/Profiles/FAQ Entries Site Navigation:
Main sections of the site may be accessed from the menu buttons to the left of the main content area. If the items in the content area span more than one page, you can move forward and backwards through them with the "Next" and "Previous" buttons at the top and bottom. If the items for the section you are in are few enough to fit all on one page, the "Next" and "Previous" buttons will be hidden. At any time, you may click the logo image to return to the front page. Title Bars: The title bar of each item in the main content area contains a "L" link, which stands for "Link". This link is used to isolate a specific item on a page by itself. This is handy for getting the URL of an individual item for use elsewhere or for bookmarking. If the item is owned by you, or if you are an Admin, the "L" link is followed by an "E" link and a "D" link. The "E" stands for "Edit", which will take you to that item's edit screen where you can make any desired changes. The "D" link stands for "Delete", which will remove the entry from being displayed. Clicking the "D" button will pop up a prompt window confirming that you actually want to continue with the deletion. Be sure if you want to delete an item or not, because only an Admin can recover it once it is gone. The About Page: The About page is where you can learn info about TastyLog, from viewing suggestions to operating instructions. The Members Page: The Members page is a list of the people that comprise TastyLog. Various information on each user is displayed. Admins can edit any user's profile, while normal members can only edit their own profile. Posting: For regular posts, the IOFilter suite is set to strip all HTML and parse links if they are found. This means that any HTML you embed will be rendered as text by the browser. To turn text into a link, it must meet the proper criteria to be parsed as such. Email addresses must follow the something syntax. For hyperlinks, the links must follow the http://www.somewhere.com/ syntax. Any valid URL (including other protocols and querystrings) should be parsed. If it isn't, contact me (http://www.tastylog.com/spacer.gif), and I'll try to find out why it didn't work. The same goes for any valid email address. However, the limitation of this method of parsing requires that a link be separated from the rest of your text by spaces, parentheses, or carriage returns. if you post a URL at the end of a sentence that ends with a period, the period will be included in the link. Same goes with any other character, other than the parentheses. Carriage returns within a post will be translated to break tags accordingly. Editing posts will result in an annotation of the date edited appearing at the bottom of the post. FAQ Entries: FAQ entries have HTML enabled, thus the link parsing functionality is missing. Any links within a FAQ entry must be made by hand. Carriage returns are parsed as break tags. Member Profiles: Email addresses automatically linked, as are URLs. The Bio parses links and addresses just as a regular post. The Admin Page: The Admin page is where you can set your login cookie and access the sites other features, depending on your access rights. From this page, Admins are able to create members, ban members, unban members, create FAQ entries, undelete FAQ entries, and undelete posts. Regular members will only be able to update TastyLog from this location. Undelete/Unban: For the undelte or unban screens (Admin only), the "L" link in the title bar is replaced with an "R" link, which stands for "Restore". Clicking this will undelete/unban the item. Page created in 0.16 seconds )
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