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What's Global Moxie?

Global Moxie is the hypertext laboratory of Josh Clark, a designer, developer, and author who offers workshops and consulting for iPhone app design. He’s also creator of Big Medium, a web content management system. Josh spins words and code from multimedia studios in Providence, RI, and Paris, France.

What's Big Medium?

Big Medium is flexible, easy-to-use server software for creating and editing websites directly from your browser. Check out the features or download now.

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Books by Josh Clark

Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps

Best iPhone Apps: The Guide for Discriminating Downloaders

iWork ’09: The Mising Manual

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Big Medium 2.0b46: "Status Symbol"

Posted Apr 27, 2007

The “Status Symbol” beta update fixes a bug in Big Medium’s new “change status” feature, along with bugs in Big Medium’s site importer and directory builder. Specifically, this version:

  • Fixes a bug for Apache 2.0 servers that caused the edit menu’s “change status” button to reset the priority of selected content items to 0 when the publication status is also set to “no change.”

  • Fixes a crashing bug when Big Medium is building a directory and gets bad or inconsistent information about the parent directory status from the server.

  • Fixes a bug that caused the legacy site importer to give up when trying to import a site with a homepage or page directory that’s already taken by another site.

After installing

If you’re updating from a previous version... This update contains JavaScript updates that may not take effect until you clear your browser cache. After you install the update, please have all of your organization’s editors follow the browser update instructions.

Go get it!

Download the latest version of Big Medium here.

The download package includes complete installation instructions, including info for upgrading from previous versions of the Big Medium 2 beta. Shortcut instructions for upgrading from 2.0b45 or from 2.0b41, b42, b43 or b44 are provided below. (If you’re upgrading from versions earlier than 2.0b41, please follow the instructions in the download package’s installation guide.)

Upgrading from 2.0b45?

If you’re upgrading from v2.0b45, you can update to the new version by following the instructions below:

1. Set your FTP client to “plain text” or “ASCII” mode.

2. Upload files to moxiebin/Modules

Upload these files to the moxiebin/Modules directory, replacing the old files of the same names:

  • BigMed.pm
  • BigMed (directory and all contents)

3. Upload to bmadmin/js

Upload this file to the bmadmin/js directory:

  • bm-actionmenu.js

4. Run the updater

Browse to the bm-update.cgi file in your site’s moxiebin directory. For example:

http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/moxiebin/bm-update.cgi

5. Ask editors to clear browser cache

Please ask all of your site’s Big Medium editors to follow the browser update instructions.

This completes your upgrade from 2.0b45.

Upgrading from 2.0b41, b42, b43 or b44?

If you’re upgrading from v2.0b41 or later, you can update to the new version by following the instructions below:

1. Set your FTP client to “plain text” or “ASCII” mode.

2. Upload files to moxiebin/Modules

Upload these files to the moxiebin/Modules directory, replacing the old files of the same names:

  • BigMed.pm
  • BigMed (directory and all contents)

3. Upload files to moxiedata/templates/cp_templates

Upload these files to the moxiedata/templates/cp_templates directory:

  • screen_editor_copyxsite.tmpl
  • screen_editor_menu.tmpl

4. Upload files to moxiedata/templates/site_templates/HTML

Upload these files to the moxiedata/templates/site_templates/HTML directory. replacing the old files of the same name:

  • wi_comments_guts.tmpl
  • wi_comments_include.tmpl

5. Upload css and js files to bmadmin

Upload these files to the bmadmin directory:

  • css (directory and all contents)
  • js (directory and all contents)

6. Set your FTP client to “binary” or “automatic” mode.

7. Upload files to bmadmin/img

Upload these files to the bmadmin/img directory:

  • bmcp_change_sec.gif
  • bmcp_copy.gif
  • bmcp_xsitecopy.gif

8. Run the updater

Browse to the bm-update.cgi file in your site’s moxiebin directory. For example:

http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/moxiebin/bm-update.cgi

9. Ask editors to clear browser cache

Please ask all of your site’s Big Medium editors to follow the browser update instructions.

This completes the update from 2.0b41, b42, b43 or b44.

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Simple, Elegant, Effective

"Hats off to Josh. I always wanted someone to do a program like this. Simple, elegant and effective."
—Kevin Osborn

"There are people here in my office so impressed with your dedication and support of your product that they are convinced that you are not just one person but a small army."
—Paul McBroome

"Just a short note to say thank you for the many hours of hard work and dedication you have put into your product, Big Medium. We are extremely pleased with our purchase. It's not just that we needed a CMS and are relieved to be using one, it's that we found one that is easy to work with and which met all the requirements that we needed to take our websites to the next level. It's exhilarating just thinking of the possibilities we now have at our fingertips!"
—MaggiLu Tucker

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