The Review features of storyteller?

OK thanks for those answers. I will wait for 2.x hopefully you don't end up rewriting it a 5th time.

The Review features of storyteller?

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

1. When will the 2.x version be released? Until I can get the multiple template ability there is no point for me to continue modifying this current version.

I don't know but hope in a few weeks. Please bear in mind that 2.0 is a full rewrite and using a complete different codebase

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

2. I wanted to make sure I understood how the multiple templates would work in 2.x too. On my demo page ( http://ownt.com/ownage/review.php?id=7 ) where I have the section entitled "Product Specs" it will be possible to have that changed on each template is that correct? So that on a hardware review I'm not mention things like "Developer" and "Publisher", "Genre", etc. but instead things like "Manufacturer", "Where to Buy", "Speed", etc.?

Yes.

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

3. If you don't mind, could you mention any other features (has it been mentioned somewhere else on this site?) that will be included in the first 2.x release? (the one that will support multiple templates) Mainly in areas dealing with article writing (reviews, previews, interviews, articles), in downloads features (line queuing, multiple mirrors, registration required for some downloads, anything else), and how both of those interact with the frontpage (automated posting of article summaries on frontpage with thumbnail and link to full artcile, review, etc. / automated posting of latest downloads, top 10 downloaded, 10 latest, 10 biggest, 10 smallest, etc. downloads)

I can't post more details because features may change. The current 2.0 codebase is already my fourth attempt.

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

4. Do you know if the way Storyteller url links are formed are search engine friendly? I've heard a lot of about those dynamic urls not liking Google, or Google not liking the dynamic urls. Will Google still index my articles and/or downloads section?

Yes, Google has no problem with the Storyteller URLs because there are no session hashes.

The Review features of storyteller?

1. When will the 2.x version be released? Until I can get the multiple template ability there is no point for me to continue modifying this current version.

2. I wanted to make sure I understood how the multiple templates would work in 2.x too. On my demo page ( http://ownt.com/ownage/review.php?id=7 ) where I have the section entitled "Product Specs" it will be possible to have that changed on each template is that correct? So that on a hardware review I'm not mention things like "Developer" and "Publisher", "Genre", etc. but instead things like "Manufacturer", "Where to Buy", "Speed", etc.?

3. If you don't mind, could you mention any other features (has it been mentioned somewhere else on this site?) that will be included in the first 2.x release? (the one that will support multiple templates) Mainly in areas dealing with article writing (reviews, previews, interviews, articles), in downloads features (line queuing, multiple mirrors, registration required for some downloads, anything else), and how both of those interact with the frontpage (automated posting of article summaries on frontpage with thumbnail and link to full artcile, review, etc. / automated posting of latest downloads, top 10 downloaded, 10 latest, 10 biggest, 10 smallest, etc. downloads)

4. Do you know if the way Storyteller url links are formed are search engine friendly? I've heard a lot of about those dynamic urls not liking Google, or Google not liking the dynamic urls. Will Google still index my articles and/or downloads section?

I removed the "powered by" and was working on putting it into the footer so that I had more control over where it was placed and the text and link color... that is until I found out the problem with using the include command within the site.

My main worry though is the multiple templates with a site. I am interested in purchasing the full version of Storyteller once the 2.x version is released, but I'd like to know if that release fits into my designing schedule or if I need to begin looking into other portal software that supports multiple templates and the other features I am looking for.

Thanks for all your help!

The Review features of storyteller?

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

1. I'm still trying to get the news block working from my forums. In the news block section of the admin CP, how does it want the file inserted into the field? In the dropdown menu I selected "Use custom block file", but what type of text is it looking for in the field? I tried just the filename, I tried the pull path to the file as in  http://www.mydomain.com/storyteller/news_bbwrapper.php but it isn't loading it into the section on the pages. What do I need to do?

You need to selected "BB Wrapper" from the dropdown menu. This option becomes available after you copy the bbwrapper.php to your Storyteller root directory.

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

2. As a response to my previous question 3 in the above reply, I noticed that the bbwrapper is for 2.2/2.3 vb forums. I have an older version. I suppose that is the problem. Do you know if it's possible to get storyteller to work with my older version? I can PM you the version, but I don't like to publicly state it.

This should work with a few modifications. The main difference between 2.2/2.3 and 2.0 is that the passwords are stored on the old version in plaintext. I will take a look later.

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

3.To your answer on my previously asked #4 question. So I can't have white text in an article and have the print friendly version show the white text as black?

You need to do a small modificatin in template review_printer.

Add after global $insert;

$insert[review_text] = str_replace("rgb(255, 255, 255)","rgb(0, 0, 0)",$insert[review_text];

This should convert your white text to black

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

4. In reply to my previously asked question 5. What do you mean "Did you add the image on each review page"? It's in a extra field and that extra field is told to place at the top of the article.

Each review page have it's own extra fields.

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

It auto calls the image on all following pages, but I never added code in there for it to do that, it just did it once I added it to the first page. This the part of the code in the "review" template:

After global $insert ; add:

if ($insert[review_extra1]) $my_img = "<center><img src=$insert[review_extra1]></center>";

Then add $my_img to the HTML for the image line

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

5. When will 2.x version that supports multiple templates on the same website be released? Will the free version of that 2.x support multiple templates within the same website? Will the free version that supports that feature be released at the same time?

2.x will support multiple templates. The 2.x freeware version will most likely based on the same core script like the licensed version.

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

6. How difficult is it to run the multiple websites with different templates in the licensed versions? Would they all stay in the same directory or is it difficult to maintain all the sites to look similar and with the same menu, etc.?

Basically they are independent installations which only share the same database. You can login on any of the sites to publish news to all sites. You need to reupload your customized templates on each installation to have the same look and feel.

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

7. In reply to my previously asked 8. I have been entering the image numbers and letters exactly as they appear. I've even refresh to get different numbers, yet it gives that same error. Could this be a problem with tieing storyteller into a VBforum that is older than the 2.2 bbwrapper?

Maybe.

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

8. In reply to #9: http://www.ownt.com/ownage/review.php?id=7 that is the page. It seems that the frontpage of the installation lines up fine with that review page, but when you click the other links in the menu, it shifts over to the sides. I'm still baffled by what is truely causing it and how I can fix it. Perhaps you can give me some ideas to try or if you need me to post my code?

Seems to work fine here with Mozilla Firefox. Which browser are you using? Btw please re-add the "Powered by" notice

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

9. In reply to #10. OK, I added it to the news template and it changed it on the featured story on the frontpage, but all other news items below that aren't marked as the feature story are still the old readout. I changed it in the story template as well with no change

I see you are running the site with two column. You need to add the line at the news_col template as well.

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

I was also looking to get the date readout changed on reviews as well. Inserting that line in the review template gave no change either.

You need to replace $insert[story_date] with $insert[review_date] to get this working

The Review features of storyteller?

1. I'm still trying to get the news block working from my forums. In the news block section of the admin

CP, how does it want the file inserted into the field? In the dropdown menu I selected "Use custom block

file", but what type of text is it looking for in the field? I tried just the filename, I tried the pull

path to the file as in  http://www.mydomain.com/storyteller/news_bbwrapper.php but it isn't loading it

into the section on the pages. What do I need to do?

2. As a response to my previous question 3 in the above reply, I noticed that the bbwrapper is for

2.2/2.3 vb forums. I have an older version. I suppose that is the problem. Do you know if it's

possible to get storyteller to work with my older version? I can PM you the version, but I don't like to

publicly state it.

3.To your answer on my previously asked #4 question. So I can't have white text in an article and have

the print friendly version show the white text as black?

4. In reply to my previously asked question 5. What do you mean "Did you add the image on each review

page"? It's in a extra field and that extra field is told to place at the top of the article. It auto

calls the image on all following pages, but I never added code in there for it to do that, it just did

it once I added it to the first page. This the part of the code in the "review" template:

<center><img src=$insert[review_extra1]></center>



<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" border="0">

  <tbody><tr>

    <td>

      <table width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0" border="0" bgcolor="#686869">

        <tbody><tr> 

          <td bgcolor="#2b2b2c"> 

            <table width="100%" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="4" border="0">

              <tbody><tr> 

                <td>



$insert[review_text]



</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>

It continues to show the "[review_extra1]" on all the pages, but incorrectly. How can I fix that?

5. When will 2.x version that supports multiple templates on the same website be released? Will the free

version of that 2.x support multiple templates within the same website? Will the free version that

supports that feature be released at the same time?

6. How difficult is it to run the multiple websites with different templates in the licensed versions?

Would they all stay in the same directory or is it difficult to maintain all the sites to look similar

and with the same menu, etc.?

7. In reply to my previously asked 8. I have been entering the image numbers and letters exactly as they

appear. I've even refresh to get different numbers, yet it gives that same error. Could this be a

problem with tieing storyteller into a VBforum that is older than the 2.2 bbwrapper?

8. In reply to #9: http://www.ownt.com/ownage/review.php?id=7 that is the page. It seems that the

frontpage of the installation lines up fine with that review page, but when you click the other links in

the menu, it shifts over to the sides. I'm still baffled by what is truely causing it and how I can fix

it. Perhaps you can give me some ideas to try or if you need me to post my code?

9. In reply to #10. OK, I added it to the news template and it changed it on the featured story on the

frontpage, but all other news items below that aren't marked as the feature story are still the old

readout. I changed it in the story template as well with no change. I was also looking to get the date

readout changed on reviews as well. Inserting that line in the review template gave no change either.

Can you help?

Thanks for all your help. Please let me know on these questions.

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Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

1. Where do I find the code for news blocks at the top of all pages? I would like to make the font smaller on the pulled forum and review topics, but can't seem to find the code?

Template main_block_list

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

2. I like how the news blocks works and pulls titles from my forum. I was thinking of using it to pull news from my forum as well by copying the bbwrapper.php Will simply copying it and inserting its name into another news block work? Is there a way to change it so that instead of putting the forum IDs in for forums excluded on the wrapper to have it so that it's only the IDs included on the wrapper?

You need to change the following two lines in bbwrapper.php:

Find:

$asql .= "NOT(forumid = '$forums[$i]')";

and replace with:

$asql .= "forumid = '$forums[$i]'";

Find:

$asql = "WHERE NOT(forumid = '$forums')";

and replace with:

$asql = "WHERE forumid = '$forums')";

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

3. Is the bbwrapper file suppose to allow people to post comments if they are registered at my VB forum? I can't get it to work, but I wasn't sure if it was suppose to be a function of the bbwrapper or if it was only made to pull the thread topics from my forum. If not, is it possible to get it so that people that have registered at my VB forum, don't have to re-register at my site that's using Storyteller?

Which vBulletin version are you using? Did you installed the right bbwrapper script?

vb22 = for vBulletin 2.2.x/2.3.x only
vb3 = for vBulletin 3.0.x only

For example: You can't use the vb3 script with vb2

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

4. How can I have colored text in my reviews, but when the printer friendly version is displayed they are shown as black? I'm using white text as the suject title before I begin talking about that specific subject in the paragraphs to follow it, but when you click on the printer friendly version the text is still white and doesn't show up on the printer page. How can I fix this?

You could add in template review_printer after global $insert something like;

$insert[review_text] = str_replace("ffffff","000000",$insert[review_text];

This replace white (ffffff) with black (000000).

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

5. I'm using an image as one of my extra fields. This extra field is then called at the beginning of all reviews. So the image header has to do with the specific article. I tested it on multiple page articles and the image doesn't show up on the 2, 3, etc. pages of the article. Instead it shows a dead image. On the dead images it says that the image location url is the url of that page in the article. How can I fix this so that it either A. shows the header image on all the pages of the article, or B. only shows the header image on the first page, but doesn't show it on any of the following pages of that same article?

Did you add the image on each review page?

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

6. Is it possible to have different templates and/or different extra fields for reviews/previews/interviews/articles? If so, how do I go about creating them, I only see an overall single template that encompesses all. I was thinking that if need be I could take the extreme measure of installing multiple versions of the free version and use each installation for their different review templates, but each would be renamed so that I could have a seperate template for the following:

Game Reviews
Game Previews
Game Interviews
Hardware Reviews
Hardware Interviews
Misc. Article

Is there a module that could help me with this problem or a pricetag that I could have you/somebody could it for me?

Multiple templates within the same website are planned for the 2.x series. The licensed version comes with support for multiple websites (with different templates).


Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

7. What is the "Pages" link in the navigation for and what type of content goes onto it's page after clicking the link?

Pages/Content is primary for HTML pages such as terms of use or private policy.

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

8. I keep trying to register using the Storyteller registration system and it keeps saying Sorry, invalid security code. Did I do something wrong?

You need to enter the right security code (5 digits)

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

9. I seem to have encountered a bug I believe. It took me a while to track down what was causing but here it is. I noticed that my test review page was shifting over to the left as compared to the rest of the site. I went through a lot of stuff, but I tracked it down to if the content of the review has even just a little bit of text then it will shift over to the left, if I delete a single character it will stop doing it. If I add it, it will start shifting over to the left again. I tested this with not that much text. The text only fills about half the screen and it's causing this. Have you heard anything about this from anybody else or do you know how to fix it or things that I can try? I have troubleshooted the problem quite long and cannot figure out how else to remove the problem.

I never had this problem. Can you provide a link to your installation?

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

10. I tried inserting that line right where you said and it didn't affect the date readout. Do you have any other ideas that will work?

Please try it again. I just tried it on my test installation and it works fine.

The Review features of storyteller?

Here's some new questions that I have after messing with the software most of Saturday. If you can help me out with these new problems, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks

1. Where do I find the code for news blocks at the top of all pages? I would like to make the font smaller on the pulled forum and review topics, but can't seem to find the code?

2. I like how the news blocks works and pulls titles from my forum. I was thinking of using it to pull news from my forum as well by copying the bbwrapper.php Will simply copying it and inserting its name into another news block work? Is there a way to change it so that instead of putting the forum IDs in for forums excluded on the wrapper to have it so that it's only the IDs included on the wrapper?

3. Is the bbwrapper file suppose to allow people to post comments if they are registered at my VB forum? I can't get it to work, but I wasn't sure if it was suppose to be a function of the bbwrapper or if it was only made to pull the thread topics from my forum. If not, is it possible to get it so that people that have registered at my VB forum, don't have to re-register at my site that's using Storyteller?

4. How can I have colored text in my reviews, but when the printer friendly version is displayed they are shown as black? I'm using white text as the suject title before I begin talking about that specific subject in the paragraphs to follow it, but when you click on the printer friendly version the text is still white and doesn't show up on the printer page. How can I fix this?

5. I'm using an image as one of my extra fields. This extra field is then called at the beginning of all reviews. So the image header has to do with the specific article. I tested it on multiple page articles and the image doesn't show up on the 2, 3, etc. pages of the article. Instead it shows a dead image. On the dead images it says that the image location url is the url of that page in the article. How can I fix this so that it either A. shows the header image on all the pages of the article, or B. only shows the header image on the first page, but doesn't show it on any of the following pages of that same article?

6. Is it possible to have different templates and/or different extra fields for reviews/previews/interviews/articles? If so, how do I go about creating them, I only see an overall single template that encompesses all. I was thinking that if need be I could take the extreme measure of installing multiple versions of the free version and use each installation for their different review templates, but each would be renamed so that I could have a seperate template for the following:

Game Reviews
Game Previews
Game Interviews
Hardware Reviews
Hardware Interviews
Misc. Article

Is there a module that could help me with this problem or a pricetag that I could have you/somebody could it for me?

7. What is the "Pages" link in the navigation for and what type of content goes onto it's page after clicking the link?

8. I keep trying to register using the Storyteller registration system and it keeps saying Sorry, invalid security code. Did I do something wrong?

9. I seem to have encountered a bug I believe. It took me a while to track down what was causing but here it is. I noticed that my test review page was shifting over to the left as compared to the rest of the site. I went through a lot of stuff, but I tracked it down to if the content of the review has even just a little bit of text then it will shift over to the left, if I delete a single character it will stop doing it. If I add it, it will start shifting over to the left again. I tested this with not that much text. The text only fills about half the screen and it's causing this. Have you heard anything about this from anybody else or do you know how to fix it or things that I can try? I have troubleshooted the problem quite long and cannot figure out how else to remove the problem.

10. I tried inserting that line right where you said and it didn't affect the date readout. Do you have any other ideas that will work?

The Review features of storyteller?

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

1. After implementing the forum wrapper for a VB forum, how do I get the 10 latest forum posts on one of the pages?

You can show the last 10 forum thread in the news block

To activate the news blocks in cadmin:
Other/Websites => NEWS BLOCKS (HEADER) => Enable Block Row #1 => Yes

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

2. Where is says "there are 1 new stories and 0 forum topics" if using the wrapper is it possible to show how many forum topics there have been? I tried it and it didn't say.

The stats are not in real time and refresh hourly

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

3. How do you setup the extra fields so that they can be filled and then so they appear in reviews and articles?

News/Reviews => Edit fields

To use the fields in the templates: $insert[story_extra1] - $insert[story_extra20] or $insert[review_extra1] - $insert[review_extra20]

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

4. When I click on "View Sidebar" under "News Feeds" I get a page of links to my reviews. When I look at the url location of those reviews, it's incorrect It's looking at http://www.mydomain.com/story.php?id=1 but the software is installed in http://www.mydomain.com/subdirectory/story.php?id=1 How can I fix this problem?

Open the admin control panel and select Other/Config. Then add the full path including /subdirectory to Website URL.

Next select Other/website and add the path here also to Website URL.

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

5.After clicking on the "Mozilla Sidebar" and creating the bookmark in Mozilla. I click on the bookmark and it opens up a frame as a dead page. It says "Not Found The requested URL /sidebar.php was not found on this server." I think that it's trying to look for sidebar.php in the root of my site when I installed it into a subdirectory. Can you please tell me how to get this to look into the subdirectory I have the software installed?

See 4.

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

6. I want to use the software mainly for a site I can post reviews at. I was hoping there was a way to be able to have users to be able to
comment on reviews themselves and not on the news post from the frontpage that led them to the reviews. Is that possible and if so how do I set it up?

No, not in 1.x

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

7. How do I get it so that unregistered users can comment on articles/news posts?

I am afraid this is not supported in the 1.x series.

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

8. On my reviews, I want to have an image from the product at top before the text of the review starts. However, the problem is that I want the text that is below the image to be in a table with a border for the review to look nicer. The 1st problem in doing this is that when I'm inserting reviews, I have to insert that table html code into the review text field. If set it into the code permanently so I don't have to ever enter it, then the table begins for the review text before the image of the product I want to be at the top is even posted. 2nd when I do this and insert the code for each review, when I go to the print page, that table is in on the print page and has a dark background so that wont work for the print feature. Can you help me fix this problem?

I think I could fix the problem if I could create an extra field for the image that would be at the top, so I would always use that field to upload the header image for the review. Then I could hardcode the table that would go around the review text and it wouldn't appear in the print page. I tried to explain this as best as possible, but if you need a better description or a pic posted, I could provide one.

You may want to customize the print template review_printer

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

9. Is it possible to change the reported dates from the format of "2004-08-12" to "August 12th, 2004" and if so how do I do it so that it appears as that on all pages?

In news? You need to add the following after global $insert; in the story and news template

$insert[story_time] = date("F nS, Y h:i A",strtotime($insert[story_time]));

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

10. I seem to be having trouble getting include statements to work in the header and footer. Does the script have a problem with running the include command to grab content from my site and/or other sites that I run?

Your "include" scripts needs to output the HTML in a variable. Then you can use the variable in the template.

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

11. I have a test review called "Quake 4 Review" yet when I do a search in the reviews for "Quake" it brings up nothing. What gives? Also, is it possible to add in the option to search the entire site at a time and not have to pic each individual section of the site to search?

Is "Quake" also listed in the review text?

The Review features of storyteller?

Ownt.com review software questions

I installed the free version and am trying to get the following problems solved. Please help.

1. After implementing the forum wrapper for a VB forum, how do I get the 10 latest forum posts on one of the pages?

2. Where is says "there are 1 new stories and 0 forum topics" if using the wrapper is it possible to show how many forum topics there have been? I tried it and it didn't say.

3. How do you setup the extra fields so that they can be filled and then so they appear in reviews and articles?

4. When I click on "View Sidebar" under "News Feeds" I get a page of links to my reviews. When I look at the url location of those reviews, it's incorrect It's looking at http://www.mydomain.com/story.php?id=1 but the software is installed in http://www.mydomain.com/subdirectory/story.php?id=1 How can I fix this problem?

5.After clicking on the "Mozilla Sidebar" and creating the bookmark in Mozilla. I click on the bookmark and it opens up a frame as a dead page. It says "Not Found The requested URL /sidebar.php was not found on this server." I think that it's trying to look for sidebar.php in the root of my site when I installed it into a subdirectory. Can you please tell me how to get this to look into the subdirectory I have the software installed?

6. I want to use the software mainly for a site I can post reviews at. I was hoping there was a way to be able to have users to be able to comment on reviews themselves and not on the news post from the frontpage that led them to the reviews. Is that possible and if so how do I set it up?

7. How do I get it so that unregistered users can comment on articles/news posts?

8. On my reviews, I want to have an image from the product at top before the text of the review starts. However, the problem is that I want the text that is below the image to be in a table with a border for the review to look nicer. The 1st problem in doing this is that when I'm inserting reviews, I have to insert that table html code into the review text field. If set it into the code permanently so I don't have to ever enter it, then the table begins for the review text before the image of the product I want to be at the top is even posted. 2nd when I do this and insert the code for each review, when I go to the print page, that table is in on the print page and has a dark background so that wont work for the print feature. Can you help me fix this problem?

I think I could fix the problem if I could create an extra field for the image that would be at the top, so I would always use that field to upload the header image for the review. Then I could hardcode the table that would go around the review text and it wouldn't appear in the print page. I tried to explain this as best as possible, but if you need a better description or a pic posted, I could provide one.

9. Is it possible to change the reported dates from the format of "2004-08-12" to "August 12th, 2004" and if so how do I do it so that it appears as that on all pages?

10. I seem to be having trouble getting include statements to work in the header and footer. Does the script have a problem with running the include command to grab content from my site and/or other sites that I run?

11. I have a test review called "Quake 4 Review" yet when I do a search in the reviews for "Quake" it brings up nothing. What gives? Also, is it possible to add in the option to search the entire site at a time and not have to pic each individual section of the site to search?

Thank you!

The Review features of storyteller?

The freeware version comes with ~66% of the features of the licensed version and is primary for evaluation and testing purpose. There are no restrictions except to keep the "Powered by" notice on each page.

Some of the limitations:
Features
Some modules such as downloads are not included. The licensed version allows also to manage up to 99 websites from the same admin panel. 3 website licenses are already included in the $99 package.

Support
Support for the freeware version is limited to the forum. Paid customers can also open a support ticket for extended support

Updates
There is no update path to upgrade to a newer version of the freeware version. However, an upgrade to the licensed version from the freeware version is supported.

The Review features of storyteller?

Is there a page that compares the free version to the purchasable version? I was looking for a side by side comparison that shows what options the free version is missing.

What don't you get with the free version?

The Review features of storyteller?

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

I checked out the online demo and I tried to post a test review but it wouldn't work. Even in the admin CP it wouldn't show what the review looked like. Is there a way it can be enabled so I can see how it works? I checked out the review sections of some of the sample sites that run storyteller, but I wanted to see what it looked like without any modification.

Fixed. The online demo is working again. The review module is also included in the freeware version.

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

1. Is it possible to allow mods or reviews acess to write articles/reviews without giving them full acess to the admin / Mod CP?

Yes

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

2. How exactly do you get images in reviews/articles? Does the storyteller software allow reviews to upload their own images and it auto creates a thumbnail linking to the full version? Will the full version continue to be in the site layout and feature a banner when showing the enlarged version or the thumbnail?

Yes, reviewers can upload their images in the admin control panel. Thumbnails are also support. The enlarged image page is using a separate template.

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

3. Is it possible for the storyteller software to link to images already on the web, but still create a thumbnail and/or a thumbnail on another site and that thumbnail links to the full version on the other site? (Would this be done through just html in the middle of the text of the review/article?

No, the CMS can only generate thumbnails of images that are stored in the /images directories

Originally posted by Johnny Doomo4:

4. I heard you talking about version two and that it may be done late summer. Is it possible to narrow that down any more? Perhaps to a specific month (roughly?) Can you talk about any features in version two OR can you tell me if version two will feature anything new as pertaining to how the software allows reviews to be posted?

Storyteller 2.0 is basically a complete new CMS. I will post more info as soon the first test sites are running the software.