Has WebCards been particularly useful to you? Have you seen an increase in visitors since you installed WebCards? Why not give something back to WebCards?

Why not make a donation to help support the website running costs? I have recently revamped the donation page to make it easier to show your support for WebCards. Every penny you can donate counts.

Do you have a WebCards installation you are particularly proud of? Send the link and I will add it to the WebCards Gallery

I have added a new feature to the next WebCards release: HTML email notifications.

Through the admin centre you can choose to send your notification, reminder and acknowledgment emails in HTML or plain text format.

Many users had been requesting the ability to send HTML emails and making it optional gives you the best of both worlds.

You can test out the new email format over at the WebCards demo version.

Let me know if you have any comments or encounter any errors using HTML emails.

Just to let everybody know that the site has been moved to a new webhost. I apologise for any database errors you have been receiving over the last couple of days. These were related to moving over the data.

I was getting tired of the constant downtime and the final straw came when I received this email from the old webhost:

Monitored by two third party companies, ChargerTek’s Uptime has hit it’s 200th Day at 100%

Here’s to going the whole nine yards!

Stats can be seen on the ChargerTek Homepage.

An advantage of the new host is the availability of PHP5. I will be posting details of how PHP5 fits into the WebCards plan in the next week or so.

I am pleased to announce the availability of WebCards version 1.2 for immediate download.

As well as fixing many bugs this release includes a few new features, most notably the ability to click images themselves rather than the text underneath.

You can read full details in the change log.

Download WebCards 1.2 from the download page.

If you encounter problems please refer to the support pages or post on the forums.

I have installed a version of phpBB for users to post on. The forums hosted on sourceforge were getting spammed like crazy so I decided to move to a more useful forum that is easier to manage.

It is designed for bug reports, feature requests, language support and general help and support.
Users should register to post topics. Guests can post, but their posts must be approved before they become visible.

Please feel free to visit the forums and let me know what you think.

This is a feature that has been requested many, many times. Users can now click the image thumbnail to access the main form rather than having to click the text link below it.

This is a logical thing to do and you can see it now at the WebCards Demo.

Obviously this isn’t appropriate for java applets and Flash files so it can be defined on a macro-by-macro basis so it can be turned on and off. Let me know if you have any problems with it. I hope this goes to show that feature requests do make it into WebCards and I hope you will all keep your suggestions coming.

Welcome (back) to the WebCards Blog. I have recently re-installed this blog to keep you up to date with WebCards development.
I will post the latest updates to the demo WebCards version to let you know what has changed.

I may also post my thoughts on random topics as seems to be the fashion on the Internet. I will try to keep it updated regularly.

Subscribe to the feed if you want to be kept updated on the latest postings.

Feel free to post comments to any of my posts.

We have released a comprehensive manual on using the WebCards administration centre. It addresses each section of the administration centre as a seperate topic, explaining how each section works and how to overcome problems you may experience when using it. It feaures screenshots to guide you through each step too.

You can find it by clicking “Help & Docs” at the top of any page of the WebCards website or by visiting the URL http://www.mywebcards.net/support/docs

Please leave your feedback on what you think of the documentation and any improvements you think are needed to it.

Many users have reported problems with using the calendar when allowing users to send WebCards at a future date. I have fixed this bug by updating the calendar file.

I have fixed the calendar.php file in the /tools/ folder. Download the patch from the tracker (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1548022&group_id=71093&atid=530136) or re-download the main webcards archive to obtain the updated file.

Once you have uploaded the calendar.php file to the /tools/ folder you can delete the calendar.php file in the /source/modules/ folder.

Please feel free to post a comment or open a bug report if you have any problems or questions.

We are please to announce the release of language packs for WebCards 1.1. Currently Spanish and Dutch are available for download.
Visit the download page to get your copy.

Instructions for intalling the languages are on the download page.

We are also looking for people to translate WebCards to other languages. If you would be willing to help out please let me know, corbyboy@users.sourceforge.net