Announcements of new/changed functionality, etc., with VWcms.

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Q&ASunday, 24 July 2011 21:15  (nearly 2 years ago)A question and answer challenge attempts to exclude automated spam generators by requiring additional input in the form of an answer to a question that is difficult for a machine to recognise as distinct from the other input and that often requires some domain knowledge or other understanding by a human.[read]

reCAPTCHAMonday, 18 July 2011 21:15  (nearly 2 years ago)A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You've probably seen them - colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of Web registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many websites to prevent abuse from "bots," or automated programs usually written to generate spam. VWcms now supports the Google reCAPTCHA service for its three methods of information submission, $$COMMENT$$, $$FEEDBACK$$ and $$FEEDBACK$$.[read]

Section EllipsisWednesday, 11 May 2011 19:45  (2 years ago)VWcms Edit by default now copies and removes a section and its subordinate sections. There have been other refinements and previous users should reread this section.[read]

Insert Here^Wednesday, 11 May 2011 19:30  (2 years ago)The VWcms Edit dialog now allows the name of a section to be inserted into the content ([Here^]) in addition to a link to a section ([Link^]).[read]

SubstitutionWednesday, 04 May 2011 01:47  (2 years ago)Substitution directives are now uniform between template and content (with a couple of notable exceptions). A single section covering substitution has been consolidated from earlier (largely redundant) subsections from template and HTML content descriptions.[read]

Website PackagesSunday, 10 April 2011 04:24  (2 years ago)There are many free and commercial packages constructed by professional graphic artists and designers that can provide a polished look and feel to a Web presence while saving a significant amount of effort for the site administrator. These are usually relatively straight-forward to adapt to VWcms usage.[read]

PMDF KludgeMonday, 28 February 2011 22:58  (2 years ago)PMDF is reported to have an issue with a mixed-case sender address passed directly via the VMS Callable Mail API. This does not occur if a suitable mail transport is used to wrap the address. The [PMDF-kludge] directive allows this to be provided. See Site Directives.[read]

Single-Button BloggingMonday, 28 February 2011 18:11  (2 years ago)The single-button blog entry! See Blogging.[read]

TaggingSunday, 11 April 2010 19:03  (3 years ago)A tag in a site or blog is a label that explicitly categorises site content. These can then be presented allowing a site user to select items of potential interest based on those categories. See Tagging.[read]

VWcms ConfigurationSunday, 04 April 2010 22:52  (3 years ago)BE WARNED! VWcms configuration has been radically altered. It has moved from the use of logical names to define sites and some site characteristics to being globally configured using file-based directives. See Global Configuration.[read]

Regular ExpressionsSunday, 04 April 2010 22:12  (3 years ago)VWcms conditional configuration and VWcms searching can now use regular expressions.[read]

Form ProcessingSunday, 27 December 2009 02:37  (over 3 years ago)The $$FORM$$ directive allows all of the familiar HTML form elements (text, radio and check boxes) to be used to solicit information from the reader and pass that back to the site via email, file or site-specific agent. Elementary data validation is performed before before submission. See Reader Form.[read]

Comment AbuseTuesday, 01 December 2009 22:28  (over 3 years ago)Abuse may be from humans being a nuisance or malicious, or from spambots creating unwanted activity and site pollution. Though a notoriously difficult issue to address other than through moderation there are some configurable mechanisms available that attempt to minimise the possibility of site abuse and DOS. All apply to Reader Comment and some to Reader Feedback. See more detail at Spam Abuse.[read]

Conditional OperatorsTuesday, 24 November 2009 22:32  (over 3 years ago)While deploying some conditional content (and bug-fixing) Tim Sneddon concluded that the keyword match was insufficiently functional. He then added code to provide string equality operators. Thios has been integrated into the baseline VWcms. These are now described in Conditional Content.[read]

RSS FeedSunday, 20 September 2009  (nearly 4 years ago)"Really Simple Syndication" or "RDF Site Summary" is a means of providing timely and concise summaries of site content specifically for subscribers to that information. The $$RSS$$ directive allows the equivalent of a $$SYNOPSIS$$ or $$BLOG$$ summary to be provided as an RSS Feed.[read]

Conditional ContentSaturday, 12 September 2009  (nearly 4 years ago)The $$IF$$ directive evaluates the request environment and then conditionally processes (and outputs) content between it and a matching $$ELSE$$ and/or $$ENDIF$$. Conditionals may be nested, and can be used in both the site template and content. Obviously it is intended to allow tailoring of that content. One example might be the inclusion of a coversheet with a printed version. See Conditional Content.[read]

Breadcrumb NavigationSunday, 06 September 2009  (nearly 4 years ago)The $$CRUMBS$$ directive provides a breadcumb style of navigation aid to compliment a CSS table of content.[read]

Example What's NewWednesday, 02 September 2009  (nearly 4 years ago)This entry is really just a place-holder for the $$NOTOC$$ example referenced from Table of Content.[read]

For complete list of modified documentation see What's Changed?.