YakJive FAQ
Page contents
- Password Protected Sections
- Paste Plain Text into Text Editor
- Permissions: What if I don't want user X to do Y?
- Public interface toolbars
- RSS - Really Simply Syndication
- Search Engines: Do I have to verify my website for Google to see my sitemap?
- Search Engines: What's a sitemap?
- Searching articles on a site
- Storage: Why does my new site already use half a megabyte?
- test
- What do you mean by 'groupware?'
- What is this 'YakJive.com' name, anyway?
- What type of site could I build with YakJive.com?
- What's the point of YakJive.com?
- Who uses YakJive.com?
- Why did my uploaded image shrink?
- Yaks: What is this about yaks?
Sections of your site can now be designated as password protected so that you can limit who can access parts of your site. That means that you can now add users to your site who are readers of restricted sections, but who have no ability to edit or add articles to the newspages on those sections.
What can you do with password protected sections?
- Store private journal or diary information
- Use a password protected section as a staging area for articles before official publication
- Create client access pages
- Store research information
Some features of the password restricted sections are:
- Allow different users to view different sections
- Set a cookie so that you and your authorized readers don't have to log in on every access attempt
- Have multiple password restricted sections
- Set a site property that allows all restricted sections to appear as a single menu item on the menu with configurable text. For example, this condensed menu item might read "Client Access" or "Keep Out!"
Note that your homepage section cannot be password protected.
Disclaimer: Please note that while we are doing our best to safeguard your information. The password complexity that you and your users choose governs how secure we can be. Please be sure to choose passwords that include a variety of numbers, upper and lowercase characters, and special characters.
We've tried to do our best to give you the best, most function rich text editor out there, but even there you may sometimes encounter problems. Of the biggest problems seems to occur when pasting text copied from Word or an HTML page into the editor. Surprise... the text retains the fonts and styles from the original!
You may find in this case that it's really painful to try to reformat the text to match they style of your site. Try this instead:
The next time you are in the text editor and have some text copied to the 'clipboard,' look up to where the paste icons are. Click on the paste (clipboard) icon with the little 'T.' You should see the text pasted into the text box with the correct styles. How come? Well, you just pasted 'plain text.'
So try that and let us know if you still run into any problems. Another option is always to allow your users to turn off the text editor by toggling the property in the site properties, but then they'll have to start coding HTML to make anything look fancy!
How is this useful? Let's say you fancy yourself to be an indy publisher and were hoping to use YakJive to set up a newspaper online. You have a ton of friends who want to write articles, but none of them can spel good. As a result, you don't want their content to be blasted to the web before you review it. Simply delete all the rules that look something like "bozo.publish..." for each user and you'll be all set. Their articles will show up in the "edit newspage" list pre-pended with "Pending:" and in a different color.
Your generated public website now has a special feature that checks to see if you are currently logged into the site. If so, YakJive will check your permissions and show special toolbars on your website that will not appear to anyone on the web except you!
These toolbars will allow you to do some of the following things depending on the rules set for your logged-in user:
- Logout, clearing all authentication information
- Access the administration interface
- Publish the website
- Add articles to newspages
- Edit articles
- Hide articles
Here are some tips on using the toolbars:
- If you're on a public computer, be sure to log out by clicking the little doorway icon after you are finished.
- Note that on occasion, after hiding and adding articles, it's helpful to re-publish your website.
- There is a setting in the site properties that will allow you to automatically expire cookies after closing the browser. This is useful for those users who rarely use the same computer to access their site.
- On Internet Explorer, the toolbar occasionally disappears, however it can be recovered by going to the homepage.
On many pages of your YakJive site, you'll see either a link to "RSS 2.0" or a small icon that says "RSS @ YakJive." What is RSS?
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication (amongst other things) and is a simple technology used to advertise condensed versions of your site's latest content out to the world. There are many RSS readers that can allow people to subscribe to your RSS 'feed,' view the items in your RSS, and then link back to your website.
YakJive has implemented the RSS 2.0 standard. To that we've added the simple GeoRSS format so that we can add coordinates to RSS feeds when you've added them to your articles.
The YakJive FAQ RSS can be see here:
No. Google only requires that you verify your sitemap if you wish to see site statistics. We include your sitemap in our YakJive.com sitemap archive file that we submit to Google and you may separately submit your sitmap URL to Google and it will be crawled (indexed by Google) according to their rules.
In the near future, we hope to give you the ability to verify your website for Google so that you may view your site's statistics in their tool set. We'll let you know!
One of the many free features of your YakJive site is an autogenerated Google sitemap and a separate sitemap.txt file that can be used by some other search engines. Sitemaps are formatted text files that live in the root directory of your site (http://www.yakjive.com/yourdomain/). These files tell search engines which pages on your site to search.
The URL to your Google sitemap should look like:
http://www.yakjive.com/<yourdomain>/sitemap.xml
The URL to your sitemap.txt file is:
http://www.yakjive.com/<yourdomain>/urllist.txt
You can see our sitemaps here:
The coolest thing about YakJive-generated sitemaps is that you don't even have to register them with Google. We automatically include them in a sitemap archive file that Google uses to review all of the sites on YakJive. This saves you the effort of having to register and monitor your sitemap. If you use other search services that can use a Google-type sitemap, go ahead and point them at the URL to your sitemap. The URL to our sitemap archive file is:
Right now, we offer only the Google and TXT sitemap formatted files The urllist.txt file should work for Yahoo and some other services out there.
YakJive has it's own search capability that's pretty cool. Searching is based on simple word combinations and switches. For example, you can search for 'Santa Claus' and force the search to be case sensitive. In that case, an article with 'santa claus' will not be found.
As the number of articles in your site grows, your users will find the Search capability more and more useful. It does have some tricks to get the most out of it.
By default, the search tool will search your entire site... and it looks in titles, article contents, keywords, and author's pennames to find matches. So if you are Tom and someone searches for Tom Thumb on your site, leaving the switches on the search page in their default state, then they are likely to find a whole bunch of articles by 'Tom' and probably will not see the one that contains the term 'Tom Thumb.' On the other hand, if the user forces the search to look for the exact phrase 'Tom Thumb,' they'll only see the article that contains that text!
Your website and account at YakJive.com includes scripts, html, and database tables right from the start that allow you to start adding content and generating your website. Without those files, your site would not function.
As you add content, you'll see your space usage grow. Be aware that images can suck up a ton of space that you might prefer to use for content.
Have you wanted to create a blog, but not been sure that you would have the time or energy to add articles to the blog on a regular basis? The YakJive service is groupware. That means that after you sign up for an account, you can invite friends to use your account to add articles to your site! So even if you only add one article a month, if you can get five friends who share your interests to add one article each a month, by the end of the year that's 72 articles! Along the way, if your friends decide that they have some good ideas for expanding your site, go for it! Add sections or newspages just for them.
YakJive helps you out by giving you the ability to change the permissions that your friends have to modify your site. If one of your friends is really good at CSS, give them permission to design the site. If another is really good at editing, allow that friend to edit anyone elses articles. The options are endless.
However, if you don't want your site name to be something like www.yakjive.com/MySite, we are going to be making several domains available for your use, at least including the following list:
- www.newscommunity.org
- www.unpressedpress.com
- www.patchworkpages.com
...and possibly more if the fancy to buy more domain names strikes us.
If you have a vote on what the main website should be, let us know!
- Family website
- Small business website
- Non-profit Organization Newspaper
- Local Government Newspaper
- Personal Newspaper
- Online travellogs
- Club/Group/Hobby Site
- Local commentary site
- Family Reunion Site
- Art/Writing portfolio site
The YakJive.com administrative interface is designed to provide a webmaster the ability to create other columnists who can contribute to the site, add content, style the site, and review the site's contents.
We hope that some of the following types of users might find our service useful!
Families - Create a family newspaper to keep in touch across the miles!
Individuals - Create your own restaurant, movie, or book reviews, add photos, and style the site to fit your personality.
Clubs - Does your fencing club need a newletter? How about your gaming club? Why not list technical articles from your last gathering with other python programmers?
Municipalities - Need a smalltown municipal online newspaper to keep your public up to date? Look no further!
Professors - Teaching some college classes? Create a newspage for each class and upload attachments, allow students to comment on notes... and even give the teacher's pet a blog of their own!
Small businesses - Got a new business? Want to promote it? Set up a YakJive.com site and start writing articles that will draw people to you right away!
Non profit agencies - Web designers too expensive? Just want to write about your group? You can do that... and much more... here!
In some rare cases, some line art and other types of images may not look as good as the large size image. In those cases, it's preferable that you resize the image yourself, then upload the smaller image.
A Yak is Born
When I moved my wife to Denver, she moaned that I was moving her to yak-land, yak's ville, and the land of yaks. Typical West Coast girl, I guess. There were no yaks, but of course she continues to this day to insist that she has turned into a yak. Plus, market research indicated that "yak" is easier to spell than "yack." Who knew?
More Yak
Finally, over the years, the preponderance of yak terminology in the vocabulary from "the royal mounted yaks" and "fermented yak milk" (it's out there) overwhelmed us. So YakJive it is.
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