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INTERACTIVETOOLS.COM
An HTML version of this newsletter is available at:
http://www.interactivetools.com/news/
Issue #21 - December 2003
http://www.interactivetools.com/
info@interactivetools.com
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In this issue:
1) All Products Now Private Label
2) Holiday Wishes from interactivetools.com (Team Photo)
3) Take Our 1 Minute Article Manager Survey
4) Year in Review
5) Developers: How to Install IE 5.0, 5.5, and 6.0 on the Same Machine
6) Other News
7) interactivetools Team Donates 5 Computers to Local School
8) Free Software Updates Available
9) News from the Forum
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1. ALL PRODUCTS NOW PRIVATE LABEL
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We've just completed making all of our products Private Label, which means you can now market them under your own company or brand name.
By rebranding the product, you have total flexibility in charging your clients whatever you want - without worrying about competing with our prices. Your brand will make you the only point of origin for the products and services you offer.
Rebranding our products with your information is easy and can be completed in few simple steps. Click here for more info:
http://www.interactivetools.com/products/privatelabel/
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2. HOLIDAY WISHES FROM THE INTERACTIVETOOLS.COM TEAM
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At interactivetools.com we would like wish all of you a safe and Happy Holidays. I included a picture of the team standing in front of the holiday decorations in the lobby of our office building. You can view it by following the link below:
http://www.interactivetools.com/seasons_greetings.jpg
We'll be celebrating the holidays, so our offices will be closed on December 25th, December 26th, and January 1st. On all other days we'll be open during our regular business hours (9 am to 5 pm PST).
So I wish all of you a Happy Holidays and hope you have a wonderful time with family, friends, and anyone else special in your life. :)
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3. TAKE OUR 1 MINUTE ARTICLE MANAGER SURVEY
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We've put together a quick survey to help us better understand how everyone feels about Article Manager. If you could take a minute and fill it out we'd really appreciate it.
http://www.interactivetools.com/products/surveys/articlemanager.html
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4. YEAR IN REVIEW
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It's been a busy year at interactivetools.com. With all of the various product updates and new services we made available this year I thought it would be a good idea to go over some of the major milestones we achieved. Some of the ones that stand out for me are the release of Listings Manager, the launch of our Priority Consulting Service, the release of Private Label versions of all of our products, and that we now offer technical support 7 days a week.
Here's a month by month breakdown of what I feel are some of our biggest accomplishments this year:
JANUARY
- htmlArea 2.03 released with a new Open Source BSD-style license
- updated News Manager and Page Publisher to support htmlArea (our WYSIWYG editor)
FEBRUARY
- updated Page Publisher to support image and file uploading
- extended technical support to 7 days a week
- updated Job Manager and DocBuilder to support htmlArea
- released some major enhancements to Article Manager (XSS filter, search engine enhancements)
MARCH
- released htmlArea 3.0 beta (which includes support for Mozilla browsers)
APRIL
- moved to a new office on April 11th
- created a new beta testing program to get our customers more involved in the development process
MAY
- began offering our Priority Consulting service
- updated Realty Manager and Auto Manager to include image thumbnailing support, htmlArea, and hidden listings
JUNE
- released several recommended upgrades that provided new and better filelocking support
- updated Article Manager to include added ability for specifying category upload and publish directories
JULY
- released beta distribution of Listings Manager
AUGUST
- released beta distribution of Article Manager's SSI Parsing feature (this was later overhauled to be a comprehensive server side script parsing system, rather than just SSIs)
SEPTEMBER
- updated Article Manager to support added rendering of SSIs and server side script (PHP, ASP, etc.) in pages generated dynamically by the program
OCTOBER
- released a new product, Listings Manager, which incorporates both Auto Manager and Realty Manager
NOVEMBER
- released Private Label versions for all of our software products
- updated Page Publisher to support hyperlink and image attributes in PML tags
DECEMBER
- released upgrades for Article Manager that improve the Server Side Parsing feature
And we'll spend some time this month drinking egg nog and planning what we'll be doing in 2004! :)
AND IN 2004?
We have some really exciting things planned, including many new features, and a brand new top secret product that is unlike anything you've ever seen before. We can't tell you any more than that right now, but 2004 promises to be a very exciting year!
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5. DEVELOPERS: HOW TO INSTALL IE 5.0, 5.5, AND 6.0 ON THE SAME MACHINE
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Anyone who has had to test a website on different versions of Internet Explorer knows what a hassle it can be. On Windows it's always been nearly impossible to run different versions of IE on the same machine.
Well not anymore, some clever folks over at skyzyx.com have posted a great tutorial on how to do this by making use of some hidden "features" Microsoft never told anyone about.
We've tried it internally and it works great. If you're a web developer, you may find this very useful when testing to see if your or your client's website works in IE 5.01, IE 5.5, and IE 6.0.
You can find older downloads of IE and learn more about how to install multiple versions here:
http://www.skyzyx.com/archives/000094.php
According to stats from theCounter.com, as many as 34% of all web surfers still run Internet Explorer 5.x. It's well worth testing your websites with it.
http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2003/May/browser.php
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6. OTHER NEWS
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I've included in this section a couple of smaller items I felt were worth mentioning.
Pictures of us in the forum
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We've recently added our pictures to our forum posts, so now you can get a better idea of who's helping you. Here's a post with my picture:
http://www.interactivetools.com/iforum/P19481/
Sitting like this is pretty comfortable, but my productivity seems to suffer. ;)
Car crash on our front steps!
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The other day Dave (our senior programmer) was walking to work and noticed a lady had driven her car directly down the front steps outside of our office building. She later told us she thought it was an entrance to a parking lot!
Being that she was such a good sport, she let us take some pictures. It's not everyday that something this bizarre happens on your way to work! You can find links to the pictures here:
http://www.interactivetools.com/staff/luke/car/
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7. INTERACTIVETOOLS TEAM DONATES 5 COMPUTERS TO LOCAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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As part of our company mandate we have a philanthropic initiative where we make unsolicited contributions to groups and organizations that we feel can help make a difference.
As part of this initiative, we're proud to announce that we've been able to fund the purchase 5 new Apple eMac computers for William Watson Elementary, a local school in our community.
Many of us here, as life-long computer enthusiasts, have fond memories of working with computers in elementary school ourselves. As such, we're very pleased to be able to play a role in increasing access to computers and technology for today's kids.
We're all very pleased to be able to contribute and know that both the teachers and students will put the computers to good educational use!
At least until they figure out that WarCraft III runs on eMacs too! ;)
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8. FREE SOFTWARE UPDATES AVAILABLE
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ALL PRODUCTS - November 24, 2003
Private Label Versions
- software can now be fully rebranded
- no hardcoded references to the program name - modifying the Titlebar text in Setup Options will update all occurrences
- modifying vendor profile will display sublicense agreement (with vendor) instead of license agreement (with interactivetools.com) when installing
- "upgrade available" removed from Setup menu
- updated the Software License Agreement
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ARTICLE MANAGER
Version 1.36 - Released: December 8, 2003
Fixes:
- fixed Server Side Parsing errors on uncommon servers (including a "doubling" of linebreaks on some servers)
Version 1.35 - Released: November 27, 2003
Fixes:
- improved HTTP header forwarding behavior with search.cgi and view.cgi Server Side Parsing (fixes several search.cgi issues occurring with 1.34 on some servers)
- re-added 'version' info to setup options page (removed in 1.34)
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PAGE PUBLISHER (RECOMMENDED UPDATE)
Version 1.24 - Released: November 24, 2003
New Features
- added new image_select and file_select attributes
- modified image_select, file_select, image and link tags to preserve content attributes
- added alt tag field for image and image_select fields
- added support for UNC paths
Filelocking
- improved file system error checking when rewriting database files
- improved filelock handling
- filelock timeouts can be configurable via config.ini
Bug Fixes
- fixed problem where uploaded image/file couldn't be removed when script renamed
- fixed an issue where renaming pp.cgi would cause errors
Updates can be downloaded from our website here:
http://www.interactivetools.com/upgrade/
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9. NEWS FROM THE FORUM
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Search Engine - ranking your search results
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This post has been in our forum for some time now, but I believe it's great explanation of a feature that sometimes gets overlooked by Search Engine users. This post explains in detail how to best rank your search results.
http://www.interactivetools.com/iforum/P18719/
Article Manager - remove images from printer friendly pages
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Read this post if you want to know how to remove images from your articles' printer friendly pages.
http://www.interactivetools.com/iforum/P19537/
Article Manager - how to add an additional article field to the webfeed generator
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Looking to add an additional article field to your syndicated content. Donna explains how to do this in the following post. This one gets pretty technical, so watch out! :)
http://www.interactivetools.com/iforum/P20021/
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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The interactivetools.com newsletter is written by Luke Holzken (luke@interactivetools.com) and Chris Waddell (chris@interactivetools.com).
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ABOUT OUR COMPANY
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interactivetools.com creates world-class web software. Web developers use our software to provide their non-technical clients with an easy-to-use system for managing their websites.
You can visit our website at:
http://www.interactivetools.com/
or demo our products at:
http://demo1.interactivetools.com/
Call us at 1-800-752-0455 if you have any questions not addressed on our site.
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(c) Copyright 2003 interactivetools.com, Inc.
Luke Holzken
Product Development
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