Pending Updates:

• Main Site Updates:

  • Rewrite the "Privacy Policy" page to account for cookie use by multiple applications (The Forum, Display Settings, SquirrelMail).
  • Update the meta-tag content variables.
  • Rewrite the "About Us" page.
  • Add a Display Settings manual page.
  • Solve the reload independency problem between the PHP loader and the forum's inline frame.
  • Write code to clear form fields on click.
  • Finish coding the mailing forms and their associated PERL scripts.
  • Reconfigure the PERL script for the chess games.
  • Link to a new DSL speed test on the tools page.
  • Test execution of the forum PERL script with a PHP call.
  
  

• Forum Updates:

  • Streamline the style sheet for the forum.
  • Reconfigure the colors in the forum warning tables.
  • Remove "Online User" table from the top of forum message pages.
  • Remove double horizontal rules at the bottom of various forum forms.
  
  

• Email Updates:

  • Increase the width of the text fields on the login panel.
  • Open up the default spam filters in SquirrelMail.
  • Associate user generated themes to usernames.
  • Configure the SpamFilters_YourHop variable in SquirrelMail.

Completed Updates:

• Main Site Updates:

  • 2010

    • 08/27/10 - Uploaded Web of Trust addon version 20100823 for Firefox.
    • 08/26/10 - Uploaded McAfee SiteAdvisor version 3.1.0.175.
    • 06/29/10 - Uploaded Avast! Free Antivirus version 5.0.594.
    • 06/26/10 - Uploaded ZoneAlarm Free Firewall version 9.2.057.000.
    • 06/25/10 - Added a page button for Our Hero and created the Mighty Mouse page.
    • 06/10/10 - Added a dedicated local page for the VI/VIM Cheat Sheet and a page button for it under Computers|Linux/UNIX|VI/VIM Editors.
    • 06/09/10 - Installed the Ubuntu Server Guide for version 8.04 LTS into an inline frame on a dedicated local page and added a page button for it under Computers|Linux/UNIX|Operating Systems|Ubuntu.
    • 05/27/10 - Redesigned the left navigation menu to eliminate the link button by grouping all resources by topic. Within each topic, links to other websites are listed under an External Links heading.
    • 05/08/10 - Modified the main site loader and the main style sheet to load CSS code for the Awards pages, the picture frame, and the fixed color display buttons only when needed.
    • 05/07/10 - Removed the broken links from the old web awards.
    • 05/06/10 - Rewrote the coding for the top buttons on all pages to require the topbutton PHP file.
    • 05/06/10 - Edited the freeware pages to accommodate the downloadable file name changes made earlier.
    • 05/06/10 - Renamed all downloadable freeware to include version numbers in their file names.
    • 04/18/10 - Added a page and a navigation button for Golden Web Awards.
    • 04/17/10 - Added pages for Award Sites! levels 3.5 and 3.0, and Honorary Awards.
    • 04/17/10 - Modified the site loader to require CSS code for the award pages only when needed.
    • 04/16/10 - Added Springbok's Editorials, an archive page linking to them, and a page about Springbok.
    • 04/16/10 - Added dynamic functionality to the top navigation menu by writing the underlying PHP code that drives it.
    • 04/14/10 - Added dynamic functionality to the left navigation menu by writing the underlying PHP code that drives it.
    • 03/30/10 - Added custom CSS properties for heading tags to the main style sheet to force rendering consistency in Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers.
    • 03/28/10 - Redesigned the layout for page titles and modified code to make them render correctly in both Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers.
    • 03/25/10 - Added top button functionality for Firefox browsers.
    • 03/24/10 - Modified the main style sheet to render the site correctly in Firefox browsers.
      
      

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  • 2008

    • 10/03/08 - Modified the site update shell script to exclude date stats in the forum directories.
    • 10/02/08 - Wrote a shell script to find files.
    • 10/02/08 - Wrote a shell script to remove a list of files.
    • 10/01/08 - Corrected the mixed color assignment in the picture frame.
    • 09/30/08 - Fixed the "Top" button display problem in IE7.
    • 09/29/08 - Corrected the border colors when the color settings buttons are in the down state.
    • 09/29/08 - Modified the site update shell script to exclude date stats in the SquirrelMail directory.
    • 09/28/08 - Added lighter shades to all color style sheet feeders.
    • 09/24/08 - Moved all Email features and functions up to the main domain.
    • 09/24/08 - Modified loader, forum style sheet builder, and email style sheet builder to require light colors style sheet feeder.
    • 09/24/08 - Wrote PHP code for light colors style sheet feeder.
    • 09/24/08 - Stripped out light colors from color style sheets feeders.
    • 09/23/08 - Set up a sub-domain for developmental testing.
    • 09/20/08 - Scheduled the site update script as a cron job.
    • 09/19/08 - Created an Email page and its navigation button.
    • 09/19/08 - Changed the default time zone for all date stamps to US/Pacific.
    • 09/17/08 - Moved website to a new server.
    • 09/16/08 - Reconfigured the display settings menu and added color options for borders, text, background, and the frame.
    • 09/15/08 - Tested writing the PHP output buffer for the main CSS style sheet to an external file. This resulted in requiring a browser refresh before display settings would take effect. Consequently, the main CSS code will be PHP generated and dynamically written into pages as internal content.
    • 09/14/08 - Modified the site update UNIX shell script to exclude dynamically generated style sheets.
    • 09/14/08 - Reconfigured the bottom banner bar to enable variable border widths.
    • 09/14/08 - Reconfigured the left side navigation buttons.
  
  

• Forum Updates:

  • 2010

    • 04/16/10 - Fixed the broken redirect link to the Forum and deleted the special forum loader.
    
    

  • 2008

    • 10/02/08 - Added a page update footer to the main forum page.
    • 09/24/08 - Configured the forum software to make the the forum page dynamic and all pages dynamic.
    • 09/21/08 - Changed the configuration of the "Font attribute of the top message" on the "Forum Font Configuration" form to: face="verdana" style="font-weight: bold;"
    • 09/21/08 - Modified the forum source code to remove the "http://" text from the link fields on the posting forms.
    • 09/21/08 - The time stamp for posts to The Forum was set to Pacific time.
    • 09/20/08 - Installed forum software on new server.
    • 09/16/08 - Reconfigured the internal forum navigation menus.
    • 09/16/08 - Reconfigured the forum style sheet to import the values of the new display settings.
    • 09/16/08 - Added an "Edit" link to the right side of the internal bottom navigation menu on message pages to the left of the "Previous" link.
    • 09/16/08 - Removed the "Reload" link from the internal forum navigation menu to prevent loading of a dynamic style sheet configured by a user other than the one requesting a reload. Users needing to reload the forum should use their browser's refresh function.
    • 09/13/08 - Reconfigured the message list on the forum.
      
      

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• Email Updates:

  • 2010

    • 04/12/10 - Enabled the Autocomplete plugin for Internet Explorer browsers.
    • 04/12/10 - Installed the Autocomplete plugin for Internet Explorer browsers.
    • 04/12/10 - Uploaded the Autocomplete plugin for Internet Explorer browsers.
    • 04/12/10 - Enabled the Compatibility plugin.
    • 04/12/10 - Installed the Compatibility plugin.
    • 04/12/10 - Uploaded the Compatibility plugin.
    • 04/07/10 - Deployed the experimental installation.
    • 04/07/10 - Tested the modified experimental installation.
    • 04/07/10 - Modified the login panel to automatically insert the email domain string in the username field.
    • 04/07/10 - Ran the configuration test on the experimental installation and corrected all warnings.
    • 04/07/10 - Configured the experimental installation.
    • 04/07/10 - Modified the SquirrelMail theme builder to save the generated theme using the symlink to the current version of SquirrelMail.
    • 04/07/10 - Wrote the CSS code for a custom SquirrelMail style sheet.
    • 04/07/10 - Modified the Email page to access the login panel using the symlink to the current version of SquirrelMail.
    • 04/07/10 - Created a symlink to direct access to the current version of SquirrelMail.
    • 04/07/10 - Modified the experimental installation.
    • 04/07/10 - Implemented the Unsafe Image Rules plugin in the experimental SquirrelMail installation.
    • 04/07/10 - Implemented the HTML Mail plugin in the experimental SquirrelMail installation.
    • 04/07/10 - Installed the SquirrelMail release 1.4.20 in an experimental directory.
    • 04/07/10 - Enabled the Unsafe Image Rules plugin and the HTML Mail plugin.
    • 04/07/10 - Set the path to the server's ASspell binary in the HTML Mail plugin configuration file.
    • 04/07/10 - Custom configured the HTML Mail plugin.
    • 04/07/10 - Installed the HTML Mail plugin to the existing SquirrelMail installation.
    • 04/07/10 - Installed the Unsafe Image Rules plugin to the existing SquirrelMail installation.
    • 04/06/10 - Backed up the SquirrelMail data directory.
    • 04/06/10 - Backed up all email directories.
    • 04/06/10 - Backed up the existing installation of SquirrelMail.
    • 04/06/10 - Uploaded the Unsafe Image Rules plugin.
    • 04/06/10 - Uploaded the HTML Mail plugin.
    • 04/06/10 - Uploaded the SquirrelMail release 1.4.20.
    
    

  • 2008

    • 09/30/08 - Removed the white space on the right side of the left frame in the SquirrelMail code.
    • 09/29/08 - Reconfigured the SquirrelMail error page for a dropped connection by the IMAP server.
    • 09/28/08 - Wrote a custom PHP theme to dynamically reconfigure the SquirrelMail presentation with inherited display settings for border and text colors.
    • 09/28/08 - Modified the SquirrelMail source code for the sign out page.
    • 09/28/08 - Modified the SquirrelMail source code for the login error page.
    • 09/28/08 - Modified the SquirrelMail source code for the login page.
    • 09/28/08 - Configured SquirrelMail.
    • 09/23/08 - Changed permission levels on data and attachment directories used by SquirrelMail.
    • 09/22/08 - Installed SquirrelMail.
    • 09/22/08 - Uploaded SquirrelMail.