Extra Preferences
<p>There are a number of options that have been included in a file called <code>prefs.asp</code> and then files named <code>prefsXXX.asp</code> where <code>XXX</code> is the version number of BlogWorks being used.
  The files are found in the <i>admin_dir</i> directory.<br>
  These files contain settings that weren't really worthy of their own settings page.</p>
<h3><code>prefs.asp</code></h3>
<p><b>Linebreak</b><br>
  For those interested in XHTML it is possible to change the default tag used 
  to convert textarea carriage returns to HTML linebreaks. You can use either 
  <code>&lt;br&gt;</code> or <code>&lt;br /&gt;</code><br>
  <i>linebreaktag = &quot;&lt;br&gt;&quot;</i><br>
  <br>
  <b>Bold</b><br>
  Use either <code>&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;</code> or <code>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;</code><br>
  <i>boldtag = "&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;"</i></p>
<p> <b>Italics</b><br>
  Use either <code>&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;</code> or <code>&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</code><br>
  <i>italictag = "&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;"</i></p>
<p> <b>Image tag</b><br>
  Another XHTML option. This sets how the end of the &lt;img&gt; tag is made. 
  Use either <code>&gt;</code> or <code>/&gt;</code><br>
  <i>imagetagend = " />"</i></p>
<p><b>Display default</b><br>
  The number of posts that will be displayed by default in the <a href="help.asp?page=bloglist">View 
  Posts</a> page.<br>
  <i>display_default = "5"</i></p>
<p><b>Toolbars</b><br />
If you just want to see the icons instead of icons and text - i.e. turn text off then you can do so here.<br />
Show text - show_toolbars = "text"<br />
Don't show text - show_toolbars = "no-text"
</p>
<p><b>XML Encoding</b><br />
Change the default encoding for your XML files. For most uses leave as set.<br />
Options are: ISO-8859-1 (default), UTF-8 or UTF-16
</p>
<p><b>Server Port</b><br />
If you need your users to be able to access your blog by any port other than the default then enter the number (with ":") here.
</p>
<p>
<b>TrackBack RDF</b><br />
Automatically comment out TrackBack RDF so that templates validate.<br />
Default is:<br />
comment_rdf = "yes"
</p>
<h3><code>prefs120.asp</code></h3>
<p><b>Run Flat</b><br>
Some hosts allow Read/Write/Delete access to only one directory - not normally a problem except some hosts also do not allow sub-directories to created and used under that one directory.<br />
To get round that version 1.2 introduces "Run Flat" - all files that need Read/Write/Delete access reside in one directory with no sub-directories being needed. It's not quite so neat but doesn't cause BlogWorks any problems.
To enable "Run Flat" set <code>runFlat = true</code></p>
<p><b>Admin Override</b><br>
  If admin_url doesn't point to a subdirectory of publish_url then edit this setting 
  to reflect the relative path between your publishing directory and your admin 
  directory. </p>
<p><b>Images Override</b><br>
  If images_url doesn't point to a subdirectory of publish_url then edit this 
  setting to reflect the relative path between your publishing directory and 
  your admin directory. </p>
<p> <b>BlogWorks Bar</b><br>
  Turn off the blue BlogWorks bar to give yourself more screen real-estate.</p>
<p><b>PingBack URLs</b><br>
  By default URLs in a post are PingBacked and the PingBack checkbox on the "New Post" page is checked. This setting simply affects whether the checkbox appears checked or not by default.</p>
<p><b>Event Logging</b><br>
It is possible to track certain BlogWorks events to see where errors may be happening.<br />
Setting <i>eventLogging = true</i> turns on this logging. <br />Don't enable it unless specifically told to by BlogWorks support as it will slow your system down slightly and generate a huge pile of files ;-).</p>