Welcome to WeaselTech 3.1.2
Welcome to WeaselTech. My forum name is AllWeasel, and this place
is my on-going contribution to the Amazon Basin community. I hope
you will read the text on the WeaselTech pages because it may
contain useful information.
I hope that WeaselTech's elegant design and minimalist approach
will appeal to you. I happen to think that it's a nice break from
the typical flash-infested eye pollution (being pawned off as
creative web design lately).
Hover your mouse over everything on the WeaselPages; some of the
WeaselFeatures are very subtle and may go unnoticed if you're not
actually looking for something. The mouse-over dates (found all
over the site) are a good example of this.
I've spent hundreds (okay, so it's thousands), of hours working
on (or reworking) the eleven thousand-ish lines of php code found
in the sixty-ish pages that comprise WeaselTech (now in it's 3rd
major version). Unfortunately, you have to be a guild member (or
an administrator) to see most of those pages. In fact, there are
probably only a half dozen or so people that can see all
of the WeaselTools.
Most people think that WeaselTech is just a glorified Diablo II
password page. What those people don't see, is the twenty
three other WeaselPages that allow the D2 guild members to
selflessly volunteer thousands of people-hours policing the games
for everyone else. Those guild members are the unsung heros. They
make sure that the basinly players have access to the
game passwords at all times; a safe, pleasant, place to game with
basin friends, and not have to be bothered by griefers.
Use the WeaselMenu (that blue thing on the left) to navigate the
various areas of WeaselTech and/or the Amazon Basin. Generally
speaking, if you don't have permission to use a particular
WeaselTech page, then you won't see it's link in the WeaselMenu.
This means that the WeaselMenu looks different to different
people at different times. Remember that - when you try to tell
someone that "the link is right there..." and they appear to be
clueless (as well as blind). To return to this index page later,
you can click on the link (on the WeaselMenu).
At the top left of every WeaselPage you'll see your current
default guild. The default guild choice is used where a single
WeaselTech page can use more than one source of data, but can
only display one guild at a time (the guild member page is a good example). For
guild-specific pages, your guild-specific permissions are used
and your current default guild selection does not matter.
To log onto WeaselTech, you must have one or more Basin forum
accounts. To get a choice of default guilds, you must have a
forum account in that guild. So, if you aren't logged-on or you
only belong to one basin forum, then you won't have many choices
in the guild selector pulldown menu. Click the current default to
change it.
The basin administrators ask that you use the same name,
password, and email address for all of the basin forums that you
join. WeaselTech offers a Global Name Tool to set your name, password, and
email address for all of the forums at once. You are strongly
urged to use the WeaselTech tool to synchronize your forum
accounts. Did you notice the different color of this text? This
tells you that the text is written (or approved) by the amazon
basin administrators, so you should pay attention and believe
it. Not that you should ever ignore or disbelieve me, of course.
Clicking on 
will
expand menus and clicking on 
will collapse them - duh. The menus will
remember the new settings, even after you log off or delete your
cookies. You can view your logon status, see your personal WT
permissions, and other useless geeky information on the My Settings page.
Colors found on this site (and why it matters):
Text in this color, indicates something important, urgent or
otherwise needs immediate attention. Usually, this means you did
something wrong or *could* do something wrong if you're not
careful.
Text in this hideous color, wants you to notice it (ie; you have
a PM waiting). Different from the above text only because it
stands out so badly that it's not possible to miss it.
Text in this color, is a required form field or similar mandatory
item. Sometimes I just use it because it's pretty and it stands
out a bit.
Text in this color, was written (or approved) by the basin
administrators, so pay close attention and read it with the voice
of authority.
Text in this color, is visible only to guild members. In
addition, many WeaselTech pages have extra fields and extra
options visible only to guild members; those fields use this
color also.
Wt_Pop: When you click on links in this color they will
display that page in the separate browser window called "WT_Pop"
(opening a single new browser window if necessary). The idea is
to preserve the WeaselTech browser window so you can close the
"launched" browser and return back to WT right where you left it.
Some people use a tabbed browser (gogo, Firefox) or they simply
dislike having more than one browser open. You can disable the
"pop" behavior on the My Settings
page.
When you see links in this color they are official WeaselTech
pages which all come equipped with the integrated WeaselMenu as
you see at the left side of this page. Note: if you disable the
WT_Pop behavior, then all of the menus will appear in this color
(because none of them will be pop links anymore).
WeaselTech requires cookies (for security and performance
reasons), but it uses only "session" cookies. This means that all
WeaselTech cookies expire when you close your browser. This is
the first WeaselTech version that requires javascript (for many
of the advanced pages). I figured that the forum software leans
so heavily on javascript, that virtually everyone would already
be using it.
Please report even the smallest bugs, problems or any silly thing
that could be improved to: AllWeasel.
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