One old goal is now fact: I got the under 100K Alexa rating, eventually, not much sure what that means, but it should be noted… (I am not sure why I was waiting for this in the last 3 years, probably something in Alexa gave me this number as a “goal”, now, when I saw this for first time, I felt I must be happy, although I don’t even remember why ;))As you probably already noted, I was fixing the site in the last days. Broken links, bad behavior in small resolutions and so on. However, I think it is fixed now and the new look should be labelled as “ready” with the start of the new month… New month, new look, new luck ;-)Now, I am on my road to get several important decisions about the close future. Which tool must get the priority? the css menu generator? The shaker? The new sitemap generator or the good old screen ruler? … There are some important (for me) considerations: should I continue with the current codebase? Should I start with MS Visual Studio? Or why not Qt? Am I planning cross-platform versions? Should I “commercialize”  the site a little (in order to make it possible to move it to dedicated hosting and purchase some goods that will make the whole project better)… Well, I am pretty sure all these are not important for you, but I am writing in this blog not only for the visitors — as it was said once: verba volant, scripta manent, so — for my own future reference — let it be written…Ok, that’s all for now. Let us hope we will have more good news very soon.

I received, again, a note from user that Sitemap Generator includes Virus/Trojan. In the last years I saw this situation several times, and I didn’t even ask him which antivirus solution trigerred the false alarm (they call it “false positive”, but that phrase is ridiculous because there is nothing positive when you accuse someone that he put virus in his program). I know, already, that in 99% of the cases it is Kaspersky. I suppose it is great antivirus scanner, but I am little tired to repack and repack this toy with different setup compilers and compression just to get rid of their fake alerts… Anyway, I repacked the tool, again, with different version of the crawler component and with different compression level, and right at this moment it says everything is OK (I am testing all of my programs with virustotal, the link for this particular test is here) but no one could say how long it will take before Kaspersky start again to alarm you that there is a Trojan or Virus inside the setup. So, if/when that happens — please, let me know. I will try, again, to fix the setup to fit their algorithm. Meanwhile, I am starting to think — should I get a MS certificate for these tools? Could that help in such situations?…However, the quick fix I can (and will) do is to add CNET button to every download page — they (CNET) are saying that everything hosted on download.com is tested for viruses and spyware, so that could be additional level of security for these visitors who don’t know should they believe me or not.Finally, why on earth I am writing this post? My family, so far, is not “Kaspersky”, so, I should not get such thing so seriously… but because I already wrote the post, let me leave it here for future reference…

Finally I found the time in the last two days to play around and eventually change the good old wonderwebware template with something new. I know the black background isn’t the most loved background on earth, and I am not big fan of dark sites… however, it looks like I found a way to use black background without killing the readability of the template… Ok, let us hope you will not hate the new look…

Quick, very quick note: this site is now 3 years old. And one big, personal secret revealed: 15th of May is special day for me — it’s my mother’s birthday (and that makes this day more important than my own birth date). So, now, everyone knows why I selected this date to be the “official” birthday of this site… Happy birthday to everyone who was born today!

The new version of the tool is now avalable for download here:http://wonderwebware.com/screen-ruler/ 

All Sitemap Generator users: please, download the new version (0.96) as soon as possible — this is just a bug-fix release but will give better and more-compatible site maps…Sitemap Generator 0.96

Do you remember jpMaster77’s login script? This is one of the scripts I use often. Every time when a friend asks for some quick small system with login required, I use this base script as a startup point and build what is needed on top of this nice login system. Actually, I speak about the modified version of the system, published by Ivan Novak, who made some great improvements in the original code and published everything under open-source license. But with the time going I modified some of the code to best fit my needs (mainly, to make it faster to setup). And because I believe this is the spirit of the open source, I am now publishing my modifications here for anyone who may want to use them.Why new name? Why version 1.0?Well, as I see it, I must change the original project name to avoid any confusion with the original script. I don’t want someone to think that the Grand Master of Cpp (JPmaster77, who wrote the core system years ago) or Ivan Novak (who modified the original script) are responsible for any change I made in the code. So, that is why I changed the name to jpWare login system and restarted the version numbering.The system, exactly as the original, is licensed under GPL or MIT license — which one best fits your needs.

Hi, after all that time there is something new here: Text to HTML v.2 now available. The new feature: command line support, so now you can use this toy from other programs or scripts…

css Menu Generator Version 4.0 is now ready for download…

What’s new?

• The whole tool completely rewritten (based on TemplateShaker code, it now comes with far better functionality);
• The pull-down menu code rewritten, now the menu supports more sub-levels;
• Multi-level vertical menu added;
• Help info added;
• The long-waited “Save” functionality added
• Number of changes in the interface
• Many fixes and improvements

How to update?

Just visit the website and download the new version:http://wonderwebware.com/css-menu/

The new version of Template Shaker is finally here. It took really long time, mainly because I rewrote the whole tool twice in the last several months. No many new templates, but I finally added important new features…

Some of the news:

* CleanPage and UltraSimplicity templates rewritten. If you used these templates for your sites, you may want rebuild your site templates with the new versions to avoid the old menu code. In the old versions of these templates the pull-down menu was really ugly, with all these IE6 fixes. Now the menu uses other IE6 fix that doesn’t break the code.

* Menu Editor Added — Now you can edit the menus from the Shaker itself. This is the answer of the frequently asked question "how to edit menu structure"

* Two menu templates with bundled menu generator now added for "pro-version" customers only. This is the most useful "pro-version" improvement

* Several important fixes and improvements in the program itself (like open/save buttons, external IE preview…)

NOTE: Before installing the new version, please — uninstall the old version first! It should work if you just install the new version over the old one (at least it worked in my tests here), but it is always better to remove the old files first…

How to update?

If you are pro-version customer, just click "Get the new version" button to update your installation.

If you are using the free version — visit the product section of this site and get the new version from the download page: http://wonderwebware.com/templateshaker/