February 20, 2004
Thumbnails here at last

The ability to put ability to put thumbnails into blog entries here at Ben's Friends. If you click the little photo to the left, you'll get a popup with a larger version of the same image.

Adding thumnails is as easy as uploading images directly into your blog entries. After you've clicked "Upload File" and uploaded your image, you'll see fields for creating a thumnail and setting its dimensions. It should be a very straightforward process.

Now, don't go too image crazy. We do have a limit on our space. We've been filling it up quite a bit recently. You're still welcome to upload images, just don't make them flag sized. :)

Enjoy.

Posted by TheIdeaMan at 10:44 PM
February 18, 2004
i18n via UTF-8

For those of you who like to blog in multiple languages or use "extra" characters, things are looking up. 8o)

Ben's Friends is now using UTF-8 (Unicode) on all blogs. Some of the blogs may still be rendering in ISO-8859-1 (the old encoding). If you notice any strange character renderings or '?' in various places on someone's blog, please send me the URL and I'll be glad to update that blogs templates.

Switching to Unicode *shouldn't* cause any problems, just give us more flexability.

Here are some things to help you on your way to i18n blogging.


  • Unipad - a unicode text editor

  • Other Keyboards for Unipad (include Deseret, Maltese, and Tsalagi{Cherokee})

Posted by TheIdeaMan at 11:46 AM