General Information
See also:
Frequently Asked Questions,
Introduction to AutoList.
AutoList Lite and AutoList21 are cut-down (but still powerful) versions of the toplist utility,
AutoList, written by Mike Stannett for
NoiseFactory. AutoList21 is provided freely
for use on ADULT SITES ONLY, subject to conditions explained at
AdultAudioVisual, and AutoList Lite
is similarly provided for NON-ADULT SITES ONLY subject to conditions at
NoiseFactory.
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This Administration system allows you to edit the layout of one page, and store the
edited version to another. Alternatively, you may decide to try out changes without
saving them at all. Simply tell us the (relative) URLs of the source and target
pages by completing the following entries.
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What is the (relative) URL of the page containing the list whose
properties you want to edit? Click here to use your default page:
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If you want the edited version of this page to be stored, enter the (relative) target URL here.
Click here to save changes to your default page:
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AutoList calculates various parameters for each list entry, and you can choose any of
these to score an entry's performance. AutoList will display all entries with scores
in the range you specify here. You can override these settings for individual
blocks - see the explanations below. |
What is the greatest score you want the list to
display? Enter * if you don't want to set any limit. |
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What is the lowest score you want the list to display? Enter
* if you don't want to set any limit. |
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Sometimes people may try to boost their scores artificially
by setting up a program that keeps calling your AutoList every few seconds.
To prevent them doing so, you can set a time limit. If two referrals to
the same entry in the AutoList arrive within the specified number of seconds
of one another the "Referrals Inward" count will not be incremented. If
you don't want to use this facility, set the time limit to 0. |
Minimum time delay between consecutive referrals? |
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If your list is being accessed frequently, you may wish to
reset the referral counts to zero at regular intervals. Specify the
delay between referrals here. If you don't want to use this facility, set the
referral time to 0. |
Reset all referral counts to zero every: |
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Global Layout
AutoList divides entries between one or more blocks, according to
the criteria you specify. In general the formatting of blocks can be specified
on an individual basis, but some features (basically those that are normally
specified in an HTML <table> tag) are common to all blocks.
You can override the background image and font settings for an individual
block by completing the appropriate entries later on in this form. Please
note that some settings, notably the "blink" setting for text, are only
effective for a limited number of browsers, and may have no visible effect
on your particular system.
Shared values: |
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Background Image: |
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Font Details: |
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Colours: |
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AutoList keeps a contnually updated record of various parameters for each list
entry, including the link (URL with descriptive text), referrals inward,
and referrals outward. It uses the parameter you choose to
rank the entries in order. You can tell AutoList to display any
or all of these values, and in what order. The parameters you select will
be displayed in columns (rows correspond to entries, with scores decreasing
down the page). The column headings and widths you specify are applied
to every entry shown in the list. If you don't want to display one or more
of the scores, assign them to column 0.
Notes
In the table below, "Link" refers to a displayed entry of the form
<a href=URL>DESCRIPTION</a>. If you
just want to show the URL or the Description, set their display details
accordingly.
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Block Layouts
Most commercial users arrange their AutoList entries is a number
of blocks. Typically, the first block might contain the five highest-ranked
entries, the second block would contain the next five, and so on. This
allows commercial adverts to be placed at convenient intervals within the
list. You may like to ensure that the higher an entry's position, the more
prominently it is displayed. You can define up to five blocks using
this basic version of AutoList. Please note that some settings,
notably the "blink" setting for text, are only effective for a limited
number of browsers, and may have no visible effect on your particular system.
By default, all blocks share the formatting you specified above, but
you can override this formatting for each individual block if you want
to. Any entry which is left blank here will have its value taken from the
default settings you specified above, with one important exception:
if you specify a new background image, you should also tell us whether
or not you want the image left at its original location.
There are two ways to specify block boundaries. The first is by rank.
For example you might say that block one contains entries one to
five. The second method is by value. For example, block one
might contain all entries which are associated with more than 50000 referrals
inward. In either case, the number associated with an entry is called its
score. |
What value do you want the entries to be ranked by? |
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What method do you want to use for splitting entries into blocks? |
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