LexiConn – February 2007 Newsletter

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LexiConn – February 2007 Newsletter
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In this month’s issue:
* New LexiConn Website Launched!
* Internet Explorer – version 7
* Featured Client – ptotoday.com
* phpBB2 forum software upgraded to latest version 2.0.22

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New LexiConn Website Launched…

We are pleased to announce that we launched a newly designed website at the turn of the new year. If you have not visited our site since then, we invite you to do so at:

http://www.lexiconn.com/

We hope that you enjoy the new look and find the site both appealing and easy to navigate!

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Internet Explorer – version 7…

Version 7 of Internet Explorer (IE7) was released last year by Microsoft, and, according to Net Applications, it now accounts for nearly 20% of all browsers in use. Several changes are apparent in the new browser, including tabbed browsing, the display of favicons in the address bar, and the secure padlock being displayed at the top of the screen when browsing secure pages.

A favicon, which stands for favorite icon, is a small icon that is displayed in the address bar, next to the URL. With prior versions of Internet Explorer, the favicon was only visible when looking at your list of favorites. Now that it is displayed more prominently in IE7, it may be beneficial for your website to have one for use as a branding tool and to aid in site recognition.

Here are some useful links for creating a favicon:

http://www.chami.com/HTML-KIT/services/favicon/
http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials/jennifer/favicon.html
http://www.2createawebsite.com/enhance/create-favicon.html

In order to improve security, IE7 blocks navigation to secure (https) sites that have security certificates containing errors, including expired certificates. A blank white screen will appear, as opposed to a browser warning, which is how IE6 handled these sorts of issues. Hence, if you have your own SSL certificate, you will want to take extra care to ensure that it does not expire, as IE7 users won’t even see a certificate error anymore, as they will just be routed to a blank white page.

For a complete list of all of the new features associated with IE7, reference:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/features.mspx

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Featured Client – ptotoday.com…

This month’s featured client is PTOToday.com. PTO Today is the leading offline and online media resource for America’s 80,000 school parent-teacher groups. Their print magazine is supplemented by an active web resource and online community of parent group leaders sharing ideas from all across the country.

http://www.ptotoday.com/

For more detailed information on this month’s featured client, please go to:

http://support.lexiconn.com/news/viewforum.php?f=4

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phpBB2 forum software upgraded to latest version 2.0.22

The phpBB2 forum software that can be easily installed from the LexiConn Account Manager has been upgraded to the latest version, 2.0.22. Bug fixes include:

- Check for user’s existence prior to showing email form
- New members of moderator groups should always become moderators (Bug #382)
- Proper message when replying to non-existent topics (Bug #459)
- Changed column type of search_array to store more ids (Bug #4058)
- Fixed annoyance with font-size selector (Bug #4612)
- Fix optimize line in database updater (Bug #6186)
- Check for the avatar upload directory reinforced
- Changes to the criteria for “bad” redirection targets – kellanved
- Fixed a non-persistent XSS issue in private messaging
- Fixing possible negative start parameter – SpiderZ.
- Added session checks to various forms – kellanved

If you have a previously installed forum and wish to upgrade, you will need to upgrade it manually. All new installations from the Account Manager will install the latest version.

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