It's been a while since I've done any work on this site. Mostly because I've been working on other sites. :P I've got a few things that I want to work on here... The news system will be one of them (I haven't forgotten it). New Today: Forums and Gallery are linked! That's right, one login for both systems. This will streamline using this board and gallery. It also allows family members to post in the forums using only the family login.

Webmail received a major update today. It now has a preview pane that is enabled by default. Check it out, to see what I mean. Meanwhile, I'm working on a news aggregator to replace the javascript feed on the Home Page. Work is moving slowly, but the end results will be fantastic.

It has been a long time since I have seen something that was revolutionary. I believe AJAX technology on the web is. Take for example the new weather code. Move the mouse over the days of the week. What do you think? That's AJAX. ;D The possibilities are endless.

Nothing major... Top level heading (with the shading) has been removed. A bit more available screen space now. Forums and Gallery had minor updates. WebMail has had a few updates. Small issues with the new code have been fixed. On the backend, security has been stepped up a bit. Required minor rewriting of the Links engine. Everything should be in good order.

In addition to many minor updates to WebMail, the big change is the elimination of HTML frames. The site has not lost this functionality, it is now managed by CSS code. Note the little lock icon in the title bar. The lock will "lock" the title bar at the top of the screen. If you are using IE 5 or IE 6... you won't see it. This new coding requires Safari, Firefox, Opera, or IE 7. I will continue working on adding new features to this site, it's just taking a bit longer than I had hoped. :-\

Weather is Ajaxified- adding an update indicator, auto-refresh, and other good stuff on the backend. I am using the script.aculo.us Ajax engine. Home page has improved CSS code for the columns. Minor updates to Gallery and Webmail have been completed. The Family page now has improved reliability when accessing the Gallery. If you log off the Gallery, visiting the family page will automatically log you back in.

With a bit of "blood, sweat, and tears" ;D I have re-written much of the weather code. I gutted what I wasn't using and optimized what I was. You should notice quite a difference in performance. CSS in place of a nested IFRAME fixed part of the problem. Then there was the cache cleaning code that did nothing. I'm sure I could do more. Perhaps another day...

The home page contents have been juggled around a bit. The weather code has had some slight changes as well. You may have noticed the Google ads are gone from the front page (if you didn't :D then you were blocking ads). I'm working on a new news aggregator, but it's slow coming. Other changes recently include minor updates to the Gallery and Webmail.

If you've got an email account here, you should check out the new webmail. RoundCube Webmail has made its debut. Logon using your email username and password. :D

For those using Brian's Webmail... hold on, webmail is about to get easier. I have selected RoundCube for the next generation of webmail at Brian's Corner. This product is still in development, but it already blows away the competition. It is that great! I am working on the site integration... soon.