TriptychBlog v.8.3 Beta

TriptychBlog v.8.3 Readme
TriptychBlog is open source source under the Apache License.

1. Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.x-6.x must be installed, or equivalent.
2. The Microsoft ASP.net 2.0 Framework is required in order to run TriptychBlog. The neccesary files can be downloaded here.
3. Administrator Permissions.
4. Knowledge of IIS functionality.

1. Copy all files within the folder "Release .v.8.3" to your desired directory (root).
2. Open IIS and create an application for the root directory; name this application "TriptychBlog_v83" or TriptychBlog will not function. Also create an application for the directory "Admin" which is found within the root directory name this application "Admin".
3. Open "web.donfig" (Loacted in the root directory). Locate the line <user name="root" password="root"/> and change the name and password characterisitc to your desired login information.
4. Right-Click on NewsData.mdb (Located in the root directory) and go to properties. Select the "Security" tab. Then select the user profile "Users", enusre that the read and write premissions are checked.
5. Installation is now complete! Navigate to your installation directory and ensure that TriptychBlog loads.

Troubleshooting

1. If you navigate to your installation directory and recieve the error: "Operation must use an updateable query."; Newsdata.mdb does not have the correct permissions.

1. All design related information is located in styles.css. All images are located in "images" Everything is fully customizable.
2. If you desire to use the raw source files you will need to add src="XXXX.cs" to each page, where XXXX is the name of the source file; either deafult.cs, or admin.cs.
3. To change the title of each page you will need to open deafault.aspx and comments.aspx within the root directory and change <title>TripychStudios</title> to <title>XXXXXXXXX</title>.
4. TriptychBlog.master is the template page which can be fully edited as long as the asp:contentplaceholder...></...> tags remain in place.
5. To edit your blogroll you must open "blogroll.xml" and add another <item> section for each link.
6. To edit the categories you must open "category.xml" and add another <item> section for each category.
7. To change the message displayed when comments are locked or protected open "comments.aspx" and find <asp:Panel> tag with an id of either protected or locked and edit the text within that tag.
8. To add links to the top of TriptychBlog open "TriptychBlog.master" and locate the div with an id of Nav. Simply add another <li> tag with your link inside it.
9. The Archives section does NOT function. It is located in "TriptychBlog.master" and can easily be deleted with no harm.

Change Log

1. Addnews.aspx, EditArticle.aspx, cat.aspx, and TriptychBlog.master now reads from category.xml.
2. TriptychBlog.master now reads from blogrool.xml.
3. New Skin, CSS file and Layout.
4. Cat.aspx has been added to display only results from a given category.
5. The database has NOT changed which means you can continue using your version .8.2 database, but none before that.
6. Added support for protected, and locked comments which can be edited in the admin panel.

Copyright (c) TriptychStudios 2006. All rights reserved.
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0; you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.