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Tuesday, December 7, 1999 01:28 p.m.

Here is a page that totally mystified me.

Then I followed some of the links -- and was further puzzled. Click this picture for the Vikki-Cam:

Seems to have something to do with animation and cartoons, or perhaps Thingmaker toys and TV series? I must be out of it -- I know this is cool, but I don't understand any of it. At least she lives in a treehouse. Click here for a Virtual Vikki treehouse cartoon strip.

Monday, December 6, 1999 02:23 p.m.

I found a solution to the TEXTAREA that ate my Pitas template.

I saved the changemaintemplate.pl file as a local html file, edited it to remove the offending TEXTAREA field, and inserted 'http://www.pitas.com/' at the start of the Form Action value.

Then I opened the html file in my browser and clicked on the 'change template' button.

Sunday, December 5, 1999 08:45 p.m.

You can put a FORM on your Pitas weblog, but do NOT include a TEXTAREA field in it!

Since the template editor also uses a TEXTAREA, your template will end at the end-TEXTAREA tag. In fact, I couldn't even describe this problem in a Pitas item without wrecking my page, since an encoded lessthan-TEXTAREA-greaterthan turns into a real TEXTAREA tag after you edit the item!

I think the server might be able to alleviate the problem by encoding any TEXTAREA tags that it sends to a TEXTAREA on the edit forms.

Sunday, December 5, 1999 07:31 p.m.

"There is something refreshingly antisocial about treehouses. They are rustic, purposefully secluded, intended as places of escape. Boys retreat to them to avoid chores and parents and to play with matches. They equip them with rope ladders and deck them out with signs reading "OFF LIMITS" and "NO GIRLS ALLOWED."

"I am suddenly overwhelmed by the urge to build my own treehouse -- a simple, cozy perch where I can read and look at nature. I would furnish it with a couple of rocking chairs, a sisal mat, and a shelf for my books and binoculars. No phone, no e-mail, no TV. Nothing else. Except maybe a cooler -- one of those footlocker-sized metal Colemans -- for beers and ham sandwiches. And a hammock, definitely a hammock. "

Sunday, December 5, 1999 07:28 p.m.

Build a tiny model treehouse - instructional video - realvideo sample.

Sunday, December 5, 1999 07:25 p.m.

Samantha Hightower, grade 1, wrote this story about building a treehouse.

Saturday, December 4, 1999 07:06 p.m.

Look inside their treehouse and go to the treehouse wedding.

Friday, December 3, 1999 01:02 p.m.

An Irish site with lots of details and sketches and pictures of treehouse construction.

Click all the links and read about his break-in, his attempt to make the new treehouse impregnable, and his second break-in.

Friday, December 3, 1999 12:58 p.m.

The basic reason for search is as a courtesy for visitors.

But there is another reason: to help yourself as the site gets larger. One feature that distinguishes a class web site is cross-reference linking within the site. Once you have defined some topic, you should link to it each time you mention it in later pages. How do you find topics that you wrote 6 months ago? Use your own search engine!

I use a free web service called Atomz to provide the Treehouse search feature. The only cost is that you end up with an Atomz logo on your search results page (not your main page); don't try to remove it, they just put it back!

So far I have been very impressed with this service. They allow you to customize the results page extensively (look at mine; it looks just like my regular pages, but is hosted on a completely different server). If you are customzing Atomz for a Pitas site like Treehouse, here are some tips:

• Tell Atomz to look at your archive.html page using the URL Entrypoints option.
• Edit the Template: drop the <SEARCH-TITLE> as your item link - it is the same on every page. Instead, I used the string "Treehouse Search Result #xx" where the number is the <SEARCH-INDEX>.