ASP Simple Blog version 3.0

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Requirements:

	Microsoft IIS 4.0+ webserver
	IUSR write permission on "db" and "upload" directories


Features:

	- Very easy setup
	- Easy to use admin interface with multiple users/authors
	- FCKEditor with Image upload
	- Included comments system with emoticons, easily add/remove emoticons by adding or removing from "emoticons" dir. (added a little ajax as well, instead of popup)
	- settings are controlled through the control panel
	- archives links by month
	- calendar for navigating entries
	- rss support
		
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** The application is written in asp and requires write permission on the database file (access database) **
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Installing is very easy, relatively no coding knowledge is required, apart from some knowledge of HTML.
Default.asp is the template page and can be designed in any way through css, the only thing needed to activate
Simple Blog are the two include lines at the very top of the document, and some asp function calls.

Feel free to use the default.asp template and make changes to simpleblog.css, the style sheet document
that controls the look of the page.



Installation

1. Unzip contents to a directory on your webserver, make sure "db" and "upload" dirs have write access.

2. Make sure the two include lines are at the top of document (default.asp).

3. This line should be placed where you want the blogs to appear:
   <% Call getBlogs() %>
    
4. This line should be placed where you want the archives links to appear:
   <% call getArchives() %>
   
5. This line should be placed where you want your poll to appear, if you use polls on your site:
   <% call GetCurrentPoll() %>

6. Admin section
	
	2 configuration variables need to be accurate for the upload part of the FCK editor to work:

	admin\includes\FCKeditor\editor\filemanager\upload\asp\config.asp - line 27 
	(should normally be ConfigUserFilesPath = "/upload/")

	admin\includes\FCKeditor\editor\filemanager\browser\default\connectors\asp\config.asp - line 26 (same as above)



To access the admin interface, open http://www.yourwebserver.com/simpleblog/admin and login using admin/12345.
It is highly recommended that you then update the default admin user through settings -> users.


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known bugs: the ajax comments tend to screw up special characters, like
é and Ð, but works fine with regular english :)
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