Pixelpost version 1.7.1

SVN file version:
$Id: ReadMe.txt 545 2008-01-27 00:29:08Z piotr.galas $

Welcome to the Pixelpost version 1.7!

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Pixelpost www:    http://www.pixelpost.org/
Pixelpost wiki:   http://wiki.pixelpost.org/ 
Pixelpost forum:   http://forum.pixelpost.org

Version 1.7:
Development Team:
Ramin Mehran, Will Duncan, Joseph Spurling,
Piotr "GeoS" Galas, Dennis Mooibroek, Karin Uhlig, Jay Williams, David Kozikowski

Former members of the Development Team:
Connie Mueller-Goedecke
Version 1.1 to Version 1.3: Linus <http://www.shapestyle.se>

Contact: thecrew (at) pixelpost (dot) org
Copyright 2007 Pixelpost.org <http://www.pixelpost.org>

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License: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
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INFORMATION
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To find information about Pixelpost, the installation and
configuration, read the files in the directory: /doc !!!!!!

There you will find all information:

  Entrance and Overview:       ./doc/index.html
  Installation:               ./doc/install.html
  Upgrading:                   ./doc/upgrade.html
  Changelog:                  ./doc/changelog.html
  All Pixelpost-Tags:         ./doc/tags.html
  How to write admin-addons:  ./doc/creating_admin_addons/admin_addons_Instruction.htm
  GNU license information:     ./docs/license.txt

Do read the ReadMe-Files!!  

You may also find information here: 

Pixelpost wiki:   http://wiki.pixelpost.org/ 
Pixelpost forum:   http://forum.pixelpost.org

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PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
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These are the requirements for Pixelpost:
- sufficient Webspace: not for Pixelpost (around 400 KB), but for your images ;=)
- Apache Webserver or Windows IIS
- PHP, version 4.3.0 or higher
- PHP with GD-lib (with JPG-support), required for thumbnailing
- MySQL version 3.24.58 or higher
- a MySQL database already working. If you have no MySQL Database running, create
  a database first (or ask your hoster to do it for you)

To install Pixelpost, you will need  the following MySQL-database-informations
before you start to install:

- name of the database-host, often "localhost"
- database username
- database user password
- database name

If you don't have this information, contact your web host.

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FIRST INSTALL
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Please read the file "install.html" in the directory /doc

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UPGRADE
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Please read the file "upgrade.html" in the directory /doc

Please note that Pixelpost now does not use anymore CSS-classes with "_",
so check your templates and change "_" to "-"
more information on that is found in the upgrade.html

Please note as well that Pixelpost is fully UTF-compliant, so you might change
your CSS-codepage-meta information as well.
More information on that is found in the upgrade.html