Sandbox
Sandbox is a personal website package that lets you setup and run your own blog, photo gallery, downloads center, and general purpose website. In fact, you're looking at it now :)This page serves as a backup site for the official homepage. I was recently added as a member of the development team and do all of my own development work right here on this site. Sometimes I break it in the process. Sometimes not. I'm hoping with continued work and improvement, Sandbox will take its rightful place among "blogware" packages. Whatever place that may be.
Sandbox software downloads are available here: http://sandbox.kiasyn.com
Sandbox supports the following:
General Features
- Custom pages created on the fly, provided you know HTML.
- Skinning engine based on Quicksilver Forums code.
- Contact page to allow users to email you without exposing your address.
- XHTML 1.1/CSS standards compliant in the default skin.
- Ability to create multiple admins for family or group sites.
- Google Analytics support - Just input your Analytics ID.
- RSS feeds for blog, gallery, and downloads.
- Support for full and limited administrative users.
- IP banning with CIDR range support.
- Errors for missing or bad links send HTTP 404 error header to requesting agent.
- Error reporting emailed to the site owner.
- Support for friendly URLs controlled through .htaccess.
- Allows the site owner or any admins they may create to post blog entries.
- Supports BBCODE formatting in both posts and comments.
- Supports HTML formatting only in blog posts. Comment HTML is still considered too risky.
- Archive links.
- Post categories.
- Last 5 comments listing.
- Ability to auto-close posts after a specified time frame.
- Email notification on new comments. Optionally in HTML format.
- BBCode support in comment and posting forms.
- Blog signatures and posting icons for each user.
- Links for submitting blog entries to del.icio.us, Technorati, and Stumbleupon.
- Optional Technorati tags using the blog categories in each blog entry.
- Support for pinging blog update services with new blog posts.
- Search function for blog posts.
- Blogroll to add your favorite sites to.
- Thumbnail preview of images.
- Captions below the images.
- Detailed descriptions of images.
- Folders to help keep things more organized.
- Password protected folders for private images.
- Simple folder based file downloads.
- Allows brief description of the contents.
- Downloads counter.
- Optional password protected folders.
