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I have not quite completed the second of the three stages of rebuilding the site which I started in late 2010 but the rest of those changes will now happen alongside the third and biggest stage in the site redesign that will be ongoing over the next year or so.

Stage 1 was to rewrite the back end of all the web pages to make updating the overall design easier. Stage 2 was to make corrections to the page layout, to update some of the JavaScript that the site is using, and to make sure that all pages are using the code blocks I started using in 2006. Stage 3 will be to go through all of the pages and where necessary to update the content to provide up to date information. Where the current information is out of date I will either replace it or keep it below the replacement content as an historical reference.

Prices on two of my most popular scripts have now been significantly reduced. My site search script has been reduced from $40 to $29 and my advanced form2mail script has been reduced from $17 to $12.

As you can see if you have visited the site before, I am currently making minor changes to the way the site looks. The links at the bottom of the page have been rearranged to fit a smaller space, ads have been moved around, and even the navigation menu has been reorganised to take up less space when you are not using it. The entire navigation menu us still there except that it now only has a single link showing when it is closed instead of an entire menu bar.

After almost seven years of providing JavaScript content for About.com I have decided that it is time to move on. You can expect to see a lot more JavaScript content on this site in the future as a result.

The way that the exchange rate has moved over the past couple of months has meant that I have now repriced all of my scripts for sale so that the US dollar prices are now the same as the Australian dollar prices. The Australian dollar prices still include GST while the exchange rate means that converting the US dollard into Australian dollars will result in a similar reduction in the Australian dollar amount that I will actually receive.

While it may not look like it, my site has just undergone stage one of the biggest redesign that I have ever given it. Why it doesn't look like it is because all the changes so far have been on the back end in how the pages are constructed rather than in how they look.

If I have made any mistakes in how I have made the change then there's a slight possibility that something may not function correctly. If you discover something that isn't working, please let me know.

I have been receiving quire a few emails claiming to be from Adobe, Skype etc which claim to be advising me of the new 2011 versions of their software. In each case the domain redirects to one not associated with the company the email claims to be from and the product offered for download is an alternative product on offer from Russia. Since the software being offered is not from the company the email claims I advise that you NOT download the offered software and instead use your browser to go to the correct web site to download the real upgrade version from there.

There is just two weeks to go until Father's Day. As a special offer for two weeks only commencing this Sunday and ending on Father's Day you can purchase my advanced form2mail script at half price simply by entering the discount code father when you make your purchase. That's USD7.20 instead of USD14.45 or AUD8.50 instead of AUD17.00. Hurry and buy it now before Father's Day on 5th September.

I have made minor changes to both my email and search scripts to plug some security holes that I discovered in them. In neither case is there any evidence of anyone managing to find and exploit these holes but with the patches in place those security holes are no longer there to be found.

I have now put the "Tell A Friend" form back on the site with additional security features incorporated.

Someone has been misusing the "Tell a Friend" option on this site to send spam. I have therefore temporarily removed that page while I consider what additional security options to implement in the page in order to prevent its misuse.

Also since the forum that I set up in association with this site has received very few legitimate posts and vast quantities of spam, I have decided to remove the forum complately. You can still ask questions and have them posted on my site for others to answer using the "Ask Felgall" link and checking the box granting permission for the question to be listed.

What changes does this draft proposal suggest for the future of HTML. Here's what I think of some of the HTML 5 proposals.

The IE bug was of such critical importance that Microsoft have released the patch for it immediately rther than waiting for their regular update schedule. If you are running Windows then you should install the IE update now if you haven't already done so.

The major security hole recently discovered in Internet Explorer means that Microsoft is recommending that all IE users make sure that they upgrade immediately to IE8. They also suggest that who can't upgrade from IE6 change the internet zone security setting to High. Some security companies are recommending abandoning Internet Explorer completely.

Both versions of my form2mail script and also my Guestmap script are now available with support for four languages - English, Dutch, French, and German.

In order to streamline the purchase process for people purchasing my scripts and ebooks I have removed the intermediate step that requests for a confirmation that the person intended to make the purchase before sending them the file. The purchased file will now be sent immediately that Paypal confirms the transaction (note that echeck transactions still take several days to clear).

I have been reviewing a lot of the prices that I have listed on this site for the various scripts that I sell and other work that I offer to do. For those located outside of Australia there is good news. While just about all of my Australian Dollar prices have increased slightly the change in the exchange rates has meant that many of the US dollar prices for those same items are now less.

The one type of security software that you need to be most careful about when attempting to locate the most suitable software to use on your computer is anti-spam software. Even legitimate security software providers who produce excellent software for all your other security needs may be lacking in this area. A lot of so called "anti-spam" software is actually responsible for generating a significant fraction of spam emails be sending out its own spam supposedly to "authenticate" the sender. Unfortunately since most spam spoofs the sender email address this results in your generating spam to send to an innocent third party whenever you receive spam. Help stop the spread of spam by NOT using such a program. Many people will have their anti-spam program set to automatically discard such authentication spam and so the end result of using such a program will be that you don't receive spam, you don't receive legitimate emails, and the only effect your having an email address at all is as a relay for spammers to further clog the email system with spam.

The new version two of my Password Protection Toolkit is now available. It doesn't include all that I had originally planned to add to version two and so is still more of a toolkit than a complete solution. The table in the database now has four extra fields to record when a member first joined and the IP address they joined from, when they last logged in, and an option for an administrator to set up different home pages for different members.

The new version has at least included all the code for the new fields I wanted to add to the table. Hopefully the remainder of the functionality that I had hoped to add will be added in version 2.1 within the next few months.

A number of people using my form2mail script with the optional file upload module are having problems wih a server upgrade to PHP5. This relates to a PHP field called register_long_arrays being turned off.

There are two ways you can fix this - the easy way if you are still within 12 months of when you purchased the script is to download the latest version which has the fixes applied. The hard way if you are outside of that period is to change all the references to $HTTP_POST_FILES in efopt.php to $_FILES and remove the global statement. Some versions of the script also have a typo in efunc1.php which references $x_FILES instead of $_FILES.