Category: VBScript
Admin Screenshots
Here are some screenshots of the admin area of the site.
Admin Home Page
The home page lists the same posts as the home page of the site. The pencil icon will take you to an edit post page, the lock icon with hold or publish the selected post (using a gifStream, no page refresh) and the delete icon will ask you if you're sure that's really what you want to do :). Under each post, you can see all the related comments. The block icon next to the IP allows you to ban that particular IP. The edit, hold/publish and delete icons work the same.
Posts
This is the post listing. You can perform a lot of the same actions as the home page, including hold and publishing posts directly from this page. Clicking the pencil icon takes you to the edit post page.
Edit Post
This page is pretty simply. Edit a post, hold/publish it, and view all of the comments. You can hold and publish comments and block/unblock IPs for comments from this page as well (gotta love that gifStream).
The comments and edit comments pages are essentially the same as the posts and edit posts pages. I have most of the user admin stuff done, and the banned IPs section is complete. Still working on options and RSS Config and such.
Got a calendar?
I'm trying to find a good (and hopefully free) ASP Calendar system I can adapt for my blog. I'm going to try and put something together that will let me filter by month/week/day by clicking appropriate links in the calendar. Looks like I'm going to be playing with lots of date manipulation.
If anyone has an idea of good solutions, feel free to leave a comment :)
A change in management...
Well I spent the last few days converting my blog from Blogger to my own server (nothing against blogger, but I'm a bright guy, and I can do it on my own :). So it's now all database driven with ASP VBScript. I got to play with datashaping more (the blog headers, contents and the accompanying comments are all shaped) and got to play with some advanced SQL to get my archive weeks worked out. Everything is also served from this one page now, including the permalinks.
Along with the revision I added the ability to add comments to entries. They're reviewed by me before posting, but feel free to add. I get an email confirmation so I can check up on them constantly.
Now I just have to build a management interface for the whole thing and I'll be done. This was all built inside Dreamweaver MX, although a lot of it is hand coded. This little app might eventually turn into something redistributable, but it will require some more advanced error handling, and a new less "programmer-like" admin interface :).
If anyone is interested in an app like this (so I know if it's worth my time), let me know by adding a comment or dropping me an email.