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Features In Greymatter 1.2
For anyone interested in creating an online weblog or journal, Greymatter offers a new level of power and control. Take a look at the features that Greymatter offers:
- Runs On Your Account—Greymatter runs completely on your own server at all times, and is always under your full control; you're never dependent on the reliability (or privacy reassurances) of any outside source whatsoever.
- Comment Posting—Make your weblog/journal come alive with the built-in ability for your users to add comments directly to your entries (no PHP/SQL database required); every aspect of Greymatter's comments are completely customisable and controllable.
- One-Click Bookmarklets (Internet Explorer users only)—Now you can add a new entry to your Greymatter site from anywhere on the web, instantly linking to any other site with one click.
- Built-In Searching—Greymatter now lets you add searching to your site to allow visitors to search through your entries (with fully-customisable output, of course), as well as the ability to perform internal searching from within Greymatter—authorised authors can even easily search and replace text across all entries.
- Built-In File Uploading & Easy Image Handling—Not only can you now upload files and images to your account right from within Greymatter, you can also instantly create new entries with the files or images already linked to or displayed in your new entries. You can even have Greymatter make fully-customisable instant popup windows out of the images you upload; what before would take several minutes and a lot of hassle (creating complicated code, making an HTML page for each window, uploading the files to FTP, and so on) can now literally be done in about three clicks of the mouse.
- Template-Based System—Greymatter builds your weblog/journal with the templates that you create and customise. Using dozens of template elements, Greymatter lets you easily customise every single aspect of the format and layout of your site, from the tiniest detail to the most sweeping design overhaul; if you're a control freak, you simply won't find a more extensive or customisable system than Greymatter.
- Large Variable Selection—Greymatter offers over a hundred variables for you to fully customise your templates with as precisely as you wish, right down to the level of whether you want your AM/PM's to appear with or without dots, and in upper or lower case (or, of course, not at all).
- Powerful Archive Options—Greymatter supports a huge variety of options for dealing with archives, including archiving by the month or the week, variables that allow you to place fully-customisable, automatically-updated lists of links to your entries (lists which can themselves be tailored in almost any possible way you could wish) anywhere on your site, and more.
- Support For Multiple Authors—There's no limit to how many people you can register with Greymatter to be able to add entries to your weblog/journal, with fully customisable access levels for each individual author.
- Headers, Footers & More—Greymatter includes templates for headers, footers, sidebars *and* ten other custom templates that you can use any way you wish.
- Karma Voting—You can allow your visitors to rate your entries, if you wish, with instant plus-or-minus "karma" votes. Plus, you can specifically control which entries to allow karma voting or comment posting to, if you want to allow it for some entries but not others.
- Censoring and IP Banning—For family-oriented sites, Greymatter offers the ability to censor any words or phrases you wish, as well as the ability to ban malicious visitors from voting or posting comments on your site.
- Customisable Calendars—Greymatter can make monthly or weekly calendars linking to all your entries—every single part of which is fully customisable, of course.
- Full Editing Capabilities—Instantly revise any entry (or even visitors' comments) at any time.
- Fully Configurable—Literally dozens of configuration options allow you to instantly tweak how any aspect of your weblog/journal operates.
- Connectibility—If you wish, you can connect a theoretically-unlimited number of other files on your account to have Greymatter keep them updated with your weblog/journal information.
- Polished Interface—Greymatter sports a clean, carefully organised interface designed both to be easy on the eyes and to provide the best working environment possible.
- Built-In Diagnostics—Greymatter offers a built-in Diagnostics & Repair function to check that your files are working and your paths are correct.
- And It's Completely Free!—Self-explanatory. =) Donations are always welcome and dearly appreciated, but they aren't required. And unlike some programs, there are no hidden strings whatsoever: you're not even required to display a icon, banner ads, or any other mandatory bit on your site.
Requirements
- An FTP client such as CuteFTP
- A web account which offers full support for Perl 5 software
- A modest comfort level with HTML code (to customise the templates)
- An imagination to make it all happen
If Greymatter sounds right for you—if you'd like to try the software that allows power, flexibility and control over your weblog/journal like never before—then download Greymatter today!
Copyright ©2000-2001 Noah Grey. All rights reserved.
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