diff -uNrbB antville-1.1/code/Root/renderFunctions.js apps/antville/Root/renderFunctions.js
--- antville-1.1/code/Root/renderFunctions.js	Wed Aug  4 13:29:30 2004
+++ apps/antville/Root/renderFunctions.js	Mon Nov 22 09:27:09 2004
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
    res.push();
    while (cnt < limit && idx < size) {
       var s = collection.get(idx++);
-      if (!s.blocked && s.online) {
+      if (!s.blocked && !s.hidden && s.online) {
          s.renderSkin("preview");
          cnt++;
       }
diff -uNrbB antville-1.1/code/Root/robots.txt.hac apps/antville/Root/robots.txt.hac
--- antville-1.1/code/Root/robots.txt.hac	Thu Jan  1 01:00:00 1970
+++ apps/antville/Root/robots.txt.hac	Wed Apr 13 09:38:25 2005
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+/* robots.txt support for Helma/Antville
+
+   Based on http://blogs.23.nu/c0re/stories/213/
+   --md@hudora.de 2004
+*/
+ 
+res.contentType = "text/plain";
+
+var param = new Object();
+
+param = new Object();
+res.write("User-agent: *\n");
+ 
+var size = root.size();
+for (var i=0;i<size;i++) {
+    var s = root.get(i);
+    if (s.hidden) {
+        res.write("Disallow: " + s.href() + "\n");
+        res.write("Disallow: /" + s.alias + "/\n");
+  }
+}
+/* XXX dirty hack */
+res.write("Disallow: http://blogs.23.nu/projektmanagement\n");
+res.write("Disallow: /projektmanagement\n");
diff -uNrbB antville-1.1/code/Root/sysmgr_macros.js apps/antville/Root/sysmgr_macros.js
--- antville-1.1/code/Root/sysmgr_macros.js	Wed Aug  4 13:29:30 2004
+++ apps/antville/Root/sysmgr_macros.js	Mon Nov 22 10:01:35 2004
@@ -42,6 +42,24 @@
 }
 
 /**
+ * macro rendering allowHiding-flag
+ */
+
+function sys_allowHiding_macro(param) {
+   // this macro is allowed just for sysadmins
+   if (!session.user.sysadmin)
+      return;
+   if (param.as == "editor") {
+      var inputParam = this.createCheckBoxParam("sys_allowHiding", param);
+      if (req.data.save && !req.data.sys_allowHiding)
+         delete inputParam.checked;
+      Html.checkBox(inputParam);
+   } else
+      res.write(this.sys_allowHiding ? getMessage("generic.yes") : getMessage("generic.no"));
+   return;
+}
+
+/**
  * macro rendering allowFiles-flag
  */
 
diff -uNrbB antville-1.1/code/Site/edit.skin apps/antville/Site/edit.skin
--- antville-1.1/code/Site/edit.skin	Wed Aug  4 13:29:30 2004
+++ apps/antville/Site/edit.skin	Mon Nov 22 10:19:56 2004
@@ -36,6 +36,12 @@
 <td nowrap="nowrap"><% site.online as="editor" %></td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
+<td></td>
+<td><span class="small">Public sites can be accessed by everyone, non-public 
+sites can be accessed only by registered subscribers of this site.</span></td>
+</tr>
+<% site.hiding %>
+<tr>
 <td class="small" nowrap="nowrap">Allow comments:</td>
 <td nowrap="nowrap"><% site.hasdiscussions as="editor" %></td>
 </tr>
diff -uNrbB antville-1.1/code/Site/hiding.skin apps/antville/Site/hiding.skin
--- antville-1.1/code/Site/hiding.skin	Thu Jan  1 01:00:00 1970
+++ apps/antville/Site/hiding.skin	Mon Nov 22 10:18:04 2004
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<tr>
+<td class="small" nowrap="nowrap">Hide site:</td>
+<td nowrap="nowrap"><% site.hide as="editor" %><td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td></td>
+<td><span class="small">Hidden sites do not appear on the global index and are added to the robots.txt files to bar searchengines from accessing it.</span></td>
+</tr>
diff -uNrbB antville-1.1/code/Site/macros.js apps/antville/Site/macros.js
--- antville-1.1/code/Site/macros.js	Wed Aug  4 13:29:30 2004
+++ apps/antville/Site/macros.js	Mon Nov 22 10:09:30 2004
@@ -569,6 +569,34 @@
 
 
 /**
+ * macro rendering hiding
+ */
+function hide_macro(param) {
+   if (param.as == "editor") {
+      var inputParam = this.createCheckBoxParam("hidden", param);
+      if (req.data.save && !req.data.hidden)
+         delete inputParam.checked;
+      Html.checkBox(inputParam);
+   } else if (this.hidden)
+      res.write(param.yes ? param.yes : getMessage("generic.yes"));
+   else
+      res.write(param.no ? param.no : getMessage("generic.no"));
+   return;
+}
+
+
+
+/**
+ * macro rendering hiding settings if enabled
+ */
+function hiding_macro(param) {
+   if (this.isHidingEnabled())
+      this.renderSkin("hiding");
+   return;
+}
+
+
+/**
  * render generic preference editor or value
  */
 function preferences_macro(param) {
diff -uNrbB antville-1.1/code/Site/objectFunctions.js apps/antville/Site/objectFunctions.js
--- antville-1.1/code/Site/objectFunctions.js	Wed Aug  4 13:29:30 2004
+++ apps/antville/Site/objectFunctions.js	Mon Nov 29 01:24:56 2004
@@ -10,10 +10,11 @@
    this.creator = creator;
    this.createtime = this.lastoffline = new Date();
    this.email = creator.email;
-   this.online = 0;
+   this.online = 1;
    this.blocked = 0;
+   this.hidden = 0;
    this.trusted = creator.trusted;
-   this.enableping = 0;
+   this.enableping = 1;
 
    // create initial preferences
    var prefs = new HopObject();
@@ -21,14 +22,14 @@
    prefs.discussions = 1;
    prefs.usercontrib = 0;
    prefs.archive = 1;
-   prefs.days = 3;
+   prefs.days = 5;
    // retrieve locale-object from root
    var loc = root.getLocale();
    prefs.language = loc.getLanguage();
    prefs.country = loc.getCountry();
    prefs.timezone = root.getTimeZone().getID();
    prefs.longdateformat = "EEEE, dd. MMMM yyyy, h:mm a";
-   prefs.shortdateformat = "yyyy.MM.dd, HH:mm";
+   prefs.shortdateformat = "yyyy-MM-dd, HH:mm";
    this.preferences_xml = Xml.writeToString(prefs);
    return this;
 }
@@ -61,6 +62,7 @@
    prefs.usercontrib = param.preferences_usercontrib ? 1 : 0;
    prefs.archive = param.preferences_archive ? 1 : 0;
    // store selected locale
+   app.debug(param.locale);
    if (param.locale) {
       var loc = param.locale.split("_");
       prefs.language = loc[0];
@@ -169,11 +171,28 @@
  */
 
 function ping() {
+    // see http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2004/11/21/a-list-of-rpc-and-rpc2-to-ping/
+    var pingers = [ 
+           "http://rpc.pingomatic.com/",         // http://pingomatic.com/about/
+           "http://ping.blo.gs/",                //  http://blo.gs/ping.php
+        // "http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping", // http://www.technorati.com/developers/ping.html
+           "http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2",        // http://www.xmlrpc.com/weblogsCom
+        // "http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2",       // http://my.yahoo.com/s/publishers.html#latepost
+        // "http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/",  
+        // "http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/", // http://www.blogrolling.com/docs_ping.phtml
+        // "http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/",            // http://blogg.de/extras.php
+        // "http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php", // http://www.syndic8.com/~jeff/blog/index.php?p=5
+        // "http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2",
+        // "http://api.feedster.com/ping",       // http://developers.feedster.com/index.php/FeedsterPingServer
+           ];
+
    var title = this.title ? this.title : this.alias;
 
+   for (var i in pingers) {
    // we're doing it the xml-rpc way
    // (specs at http://newhome.weblogs.com/directory/11)
-   var xr = new Remote("http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2");
+        app.log("Pinging " + pingers[i] + " with " + title + ", " + this.href());
+        var xr = new Remote(pingers[i]);
    var ping = xr.weblogUpdates.ping(title, this.href());
    if (!ping.result)
       return;
@@ -182,11 +201,14 @@
    result.message = ping.result.message;
 
    if (result.error)
-      app.log("Error when notifying weblogs.com for updated site \"" + this.alias + "\": " + result.message);
+           app.log("Error when notifying " + pingers[i] + " for updated site \"" + this.alias + "\": " + result.message);
 
    // lastping is always set to now to prevent blogs
    // hanging in the scheduler if a fatal error occurs
    this.lastping = new Date();
+   }
+
+   // we return the result of the last pinged service - somewhat cruel but ...
    return result;
 }
 
@@ -211,6 +233,17 @@
  */
 function isNotificationEnabled() {
    if (root.sys_allowEmails == 1 || root.sys_allowEmails == 2 && this.trusted)
+      return true;
+   return false;
+}
+
+/**
+ * basic check if hiding is enabled for a site
+ * @param Obj site object
+ * @return Boolean true if notification is enabled, false otherwise
+ */
+function isHidingEnabled() {
+   if (root.sys_allowHiding == 1 && this.trusted)
       return true;
    return false;
 }
diff -uNrbB antville-1.1/code/Site/page.skin apps/antville/Site/page.skin
--- antville-1.1/code/Site/page.skin	Wed Aug  4 13:29:30 2004
+++ apps/antville/Site/page.skin	Sun Nov 21 20:31:15 2004
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html" />
 <meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE" />
 <link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" title="XML" href="<% site.url %>rss" />
+<link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" title="RSD" href="<% site.url %>rsd.xml" />
 <script type="text/javascript" src="<% site.url %>main.js"></script>
 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" title="CSS Stylesheet" href="<% site.url %>main.css" />
 </head>
diff -uNrbB antville-1.1/code/Site/rsd.xml.hac apps/antville/Site/rsd.xml.hac
--- antville-1.1/code/Site/rsd.xml.hac	Thu Jan  1 01:00:00 1970
+++ apps/antville/Site/rsd.xml.hac	Sun Nov 21 20:26:00 2004
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+/* This is a first attempt at implementing RSD for Antville.
+   See http://archipelago.phrasewise.com/rsd for further 
+   enlightenment.
+ 
+   There are still is a difficult Problem: how do I find out if 
+   XML-RPC is enabled and where it is running?
+
+  --md@hudora.de
+
+*/
+
+res.contentType = "text/xml";
+
+// try to get hostname from the root
+param = new Object();
+pattern = "http://([^:/]+).*";
+exp = new RegExp(pattern, "i");
+param.host = root.getUrl().replace(exp, "$1");
+
+this.renderSkin("rsd.xml", param);
+  
diff -uNrbB antville-1.1/code/Site/rsd.xml.skin apps/antville/Site/rsd.xml.skin
--- antville-1.1/code/Site/rsd.xml.skin	Thu Jan  1 01:00:00 1970
+++ apps/antville/Site/rsd.xml.skin	Sun Nov 21 20:28:18 2004
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" ?> 
+<rsd version="1.0" xmlns="http://archipelago.phrasewise.com/rsd">
+  <service>
+    <engineName>Antville / Helma Object Publisher</engineName> 
+    <engineLink>http://project.antville.org/</engineLink>
+    <homePageLink><% site.url %></homePageLink>
+    <apis>
+      <api name="MetaWeblog" preferred="true" apiLink="http://<% param.host %>:8081" blogID="<% site.alias %>" />
+      <api name="Blogger" preferred="false" apiLink="http://<% param.host %>:8081" blogID="<% site.alias %>" />
+      <api name="MovableType" preferred="false" apiLink="http://<% param.host %>:8081" blogID="<% site.alias %>" />
+    </apis>
+  </service>
+</rsd>
diff -uNrbB antville-1.1/code/Site/rss10.skin apps/antville/Site/rss10.skin
--- antville-1.1/code/Site/rss10.skin	Thu Jan  1 01:00:00 1970
+++ apps/antville/Site/rss10.skin	Wed Nov 24 12:29:17 2004
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" standalone="yes"?>
+
+<rdf:RDF 
+  xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" 
+  xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
+  xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
+  xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/"
+> 
+
+  <channel rdf:about="<% site.url %>">
+    <title><% site.title encoding="xml" %><% param.subtitle prefix=" (" suffix=")" %></title>
+    <link><% site.url %></link>
+    <description><% site.tagline encoding="xml" %></description>
+    <dc:publisher><% param.title encoding="xml" %></dc:publisher>
+    <dc:creator><% param.creator encoding="xml" %><% param.email encoding="xml" prefix=" (mailto:" suffix=")" %></dc:creator>
+    <dc:date><% param.lastupdate %></dc:date>
+    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
+    <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
+    <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
+    <sy:updateBase>2000-01-01T00:00:00Z</sy:updateBase>
+    <items>
+      <rdf:Seq>
+<% param.resources %>
+         <textinput rdf:resource="<% site.url %>search" />
+      </rdf:Seq>
+    </items>
+  </channel>
+
+<% param.items %>
+
+   <textinput rdf:about="<% site.url %>search">
+      <title>find</title>
+      <description>Search this site:</description>
+      <name>q</name>
+      <link><% site.url action="search" %></link>
+   </textinput>
+</rdf:RDF>
diff -uNrbB antville-1.1/code/Site/sysmgr_macros.js apps/antville/Site/sysmgr_macros.js
--- antville-1.1/code/Site/sysmgr_macros.js	Wed Aug  4 13:29:30 2004
+++ apps/antville/Site/sysmgr_macros.js	Mon Nov 22 10:29:17 2004
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@
       return;
    if (this.trusted)
       res.write("<span class=\"flagDark\" style=\"background-color:#009900;\">TRUSTED</span>");
+   if (this.hidden)
+      res.write("<span class=\"flagDark\" style=\"background-color:#DDAA00;\">HIDDEN</span>");
    if (!this.online)
       res.write("<span class=\"flagDark\" style=\"background-color:#CC0000;\">PRIVATE</span>");
    else
diff -uNrbB antville-1.1/code/Site/type.properties apps/antville/Site/type.properties
--- antville-1.1/code/Site/type.properties	Wed Aug  4 13:29:30 2004
+++ apps/antville/Site/type.properties	Mon Nov 22 09:16:26 2004
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 diskusage      = SITE_DISKUSAGE
 blocked        = SITE_ISBLOCKED
 trusted        = SITE_ISTRUSTED
+hidden         = SITE_ISHIDDEN
 createtime     = SITE_CREATETIME
 modifytime     = SITE_MODIFYTIME
 
diff -uNrbB antville-1.1/code/Story/securityFunctions.js apps/antville/Story/securityFunctions.js
--- antville-1.1/code/Story/securityFunctions.js	Wed Aug  4 13:29:31 2004
+++ apps/antville/Story/securityFunctions.js	Tue Dec  7 11:20:42 2004
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
    try {
       switch (action) {
          case "main" :
+            // temporary fix!
+            // return;
             this.checkView(usr, level);
             break;
          case "edit" :
diff -uNrbB antville-1.1/code/SysMgr/objectFunctions.js apps/antville/SysMgr/objectFunctions.js
--- antville-1.1/code/SysMgr/objectFunctions.js	Wed Aug  4 13:29:31 2004
+++ apps/antville/SysMgr/objectFunctions.js	Mon Nov 22 09:54:58 2004
@@ -228,6 +228,8 @@
    root.longdateformat = param.longdateformat ? param.longdateformat : null;
    // short dateformat
    root.shortdateformat = param.shortdateformat ? param.shortdateformat : null;
+   // allow hiding
+   root.sys_allowHiding = param.sys_allowHiding ? true : false;
    // allow file
    root.sys_allowFiles = param.sys_allowFiles ? true : false;
    // disk quota
diff -uNrbB antville-1.1/code/SysMgr/setup.skin apps/antville/SysMgr/setup.skin
--- antville-1.1/code/SysMgr/setup.skin	Wed Aug  4 13:29:31 2004
+++ apps/antville/SysMgr/setup.skin	Mon Nov 22 10:12:16 2004
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@
 <td nowrap="nowrap"><% root.shortdateformat as="chooser" width="20" %></td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
+<td valign="top" nowrap="nowrap">Allow hidden sites:</td>
+<td><% root.sys_allowHiding as="editor" %><br /><span class="small">This allows trusted sites to be set to 'hidden'. Hidden sites don't appear in the list of sites on the startpage and adds them to a robots.txt file.</span></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
 <td valign="top" nowrap="nowrap">Allow files:</td>
 <td><% root.sys_allowFiles as="editor" %><br /><span class="small">Enabling this means that users can upload files.</span></td>
 </tr>