on the entry's individual page, allowing users to customize the summary which appears on the main page of the blog. Greymatter is easy to customize and is open-source, allowing users to edit the HTML and/or Perl contained within. Many users have been known to edit the color scheme of the Greymatter user page (originally purple, yellow, and green). Greymatter contains many variables within double curly braces (i.e. displays the subject). These variables let users completely customize the way Greymatter displays entries and also the layout of the page. While some variables are predefined by Greymatter, the and variables can contain anything from HTML to Perl. Mods and edits Many users have edited Greymatter; this is possible because it is open-source. The best known mods are by Foshdawg for the 1.21 versions, and later by Pete Finnigan. The site also includes information on the set up of all of the cgi files Greymatter uses. Popular mods in early development of Greymatter have been made by flippedcracker and Linear. Hazelorb also implemented dynamic Perl pages and was at one time working on a Java version, showing that Greymatter is extendable. It has been suggested that Greymatter be rewritten in PHP using mySQL. Developers at the Greymatter Forums continue to create new mods and feature requests. Future As of February 2001, Greymatter is no longer being developed by Noah Grey, but is instead being maintained and occasionally updated by developers at the Greymatter Forums. Pete Finnigan and Coldstone have been maintaining some more recent versions. Though a core group had been attempting a rewrite as Greymatter 2 (which was set to include RSS/Atom support), a new version has not been released since 2008 and development is not extremely active. Greymatter is believed to be "dead." Noah Grey has no plans to resume involvement with Greymatter in any form. Originally he had said that future versions of Greymatter might not be free, and that he might eventually release a commercial "pro" version. Instead of a "pro" version, Grey had written an all-new PHP- and MySQL-based CMS, Greysight, which was licensed to commercial and private clients. References External links Greymatter Downloads: http://web.petefinnigan.com/greymatter.htm Greymatter Forums: http://greymatterforum.proboards.com/ Greymatter Mods: http://web.petefinnigan.com/greymatter_mods.htm Setting up Greymatter with RSS 1.0: https://web.archive.org/web/20100820132458/http://webword.com/moving/rss.html See also Weblog software Perl software Blog software