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What is Manila? How do I get started? Where can I ask questions about Manila? Is there a list of Manila sites? How can I run Manila on my server? What macros I can use in my site? Why does my Home Page have yesterday's date? How can I include a picture I uploaded in a story? What's the difference between a story and a discussion group message? Why do all my pictures show up in the discussion group? Is there any way I can see stats or a log for my site? How can I have multiple days of news on my home page, the way www.scripting.com does? What's the XML format for the Site Structure feature? How come my style sheet doesn't work too well with browser X? Can I use suites.dg to edit my Manila site? Are there ways, other than through Frontier, to edit Manila sites in external editors? How do I keep Manila from handling quoted text as a Shortcut or Picture? How do I keep Manila from making Web and email links active? How do I keep Manila from evaluating macros? Why is my Top Level Topics page empty? Why can't I access my Prefs, Admin or Bulletins pages? What Search Engine Server can I use for Searching Prefs? Can I change the respond cowskull to some other text or graphic? How do I get a copy of my Manila site? How do I change my password? What if I make my site unviewable after a Template change? Where can I download a copy of the Manila User's Guide? What is Manila? From the About Manila site: "Manila is an Internet server application that allows groups of writers, designers and graphics people to manage full-featured, high performance web sites thru an easy-to-use browser interface. Manila is included with UserLand Frontier 8.0." Top How do I get started? See the QuickStart Guide. Top Where can I ask questions about Manila? The Manila-Newbies mail list is a place to ask questions about Manila and get help from UserLand and other Manila users. You can also ask questions on this website's discussion group. Top Is there a list of Manila sites? Many Manila sites - but not nearly all - are listed here. There's also a page ranking all UserLand-hosted Manila sites. Top How can I run Manila on my server? Manila is built on Frontier technology. Its all part of Manila. Top What macros I can use in my site? Have a look at http://macros.userland.com. Top Why does my Home Page have yesterday's date? This lets you flip your Home Page right away so you can save the introductory information and get started with your own material. Top How can I include a picture I uploaded in a story? See the Pictures section for instructions. Top What's the difference between a story and a discussion group vmessage? All stories are discussion group messages. A story is a special type of discussion group message. Marking a message as a story means you want it to be public. See Manila Overview: Messages, Stories And Pictures for more. Top Why do all my pictures show up in the discussion group? Manila site contents are all stored in the discussion group. Pictures are just discussion group messages that have a picture attached. See Manila Overview: Messages, Stories And Pictures for more. Top Is there any way I can see stats or a log for my site? You can see a ranking of most-read pages. It's at http://yourserver.com/yoursite/stats/mostReadMessages. Here's an example. Top How can I have multiple days of news on my home page, the way www.scripting.com does? See Multiple News Days for a HowTo for this feature. Top What's the XML format for the Site Structure feature? There's a HowTo and a reference guide that describe the format and how to use the feature. Top How come my style sheet doesn't work too well with browser X? Some things are beyond Manila's control. Different browsers support different features, and not all of them support style sheets that well. Have a look at style.webreview.com and Webmonkey's Stylesheets Guide for more information. Top Can I use suites.dg to edit my Manila site? Yes, unless your system administrator has disabled it. The server name is the domain name of your site, and the name of the discussion group is usually [siteName]Discuss, where [siteName] is the name of your site. For instance, the server for this site is weblogs.userland.com, and the discussion group name for this site is ManilaNewbiesDiscuss. If you have any questions about getting the right settings for your copy of suites.dg, ask your server administrator. Top Are there ways, other than through Frontier, to edit Manila sites in external editors? Yes, Radio Userland is a powerful outline based Manila site editing tool that uses the XML-RPC interface. XML-RPC can also be used to edit a Manila site from scripting languages such as AppleScript, Lingo, and Python. Top How do I keep Manila from handling quoted text as a Shortcut or Picture? Place the "\" character in front of the quotation marks, as in \"Discuss\". Top How do I keep Manila from making Web and email links active? Place the "\" character in front of the colon (:) in a Web address, as in http\ ://www.userland.com, or in front of the circa symbol (@) in an email address, as in Me\@KenDow.Com. Top How do I keep Manila from evaluating macros? Place the "\" character in front of the { and } characters, as in \{bodytext\}. Top Why is my Top Level Topics page empty? The Top Level Topics page only shows the current month, so it will be empty at the start of each new month. Top Why can't I access my Prefs, Admin or Bulletins pages? The login name and password are case-sensitive for these pages. You can log into your site using a different case and look at other pages, but you'll get an error if you try to view these. You must sign out and back in again with the correct case. Top What Search Engine Server can I use for Searching Prefs? The instructions for connecting to the Userland Search Engine Server are here.. As an alternative, you can also use third-party search tools like those from http://www.atomz.com or http://www.searchbutton.com. If you are interested in setting up your own Search Engine Server, there's a HowTo. Top Can I change the respond cowskull to some other text or graphic? Yes, there's an explanation here. Top How do I get a copy of my Manila site? You can download your root as explained here. Top How do I change my password? Log into your site as usual, then call up the Sign Up page at http://yoursite.com/member/signup, enter a different password and submit the form. Top What if I make my site unviewable after a Template change? Each site has a special page that doesn't use the Template, and from it you can restore the original site Template. It's at http://yourdomain.com/admin/restoreTemplate. Top Where can I download a copy of the Manila User's Guide? The Manila User's Guide is available as a 1 MB Acrobat document. Top

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