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Update: Accordion Menu

After the few many frequent updates recently to fix a few issues with the module and a few features, this new verision 0.8.3 of our Accordion Menu now can pass XHTML 1.0 Transitional validation by setting one of the modules parameters and copying the CSS file of the module into your sites template. So if your site requires to pass this validation it is now possible with our module, you can check out our test site validation.

Also included in this update is the ability to enable a single item top level menu  to automatically expand, rather than have to move the mouse over it if it is not to do with the menu or link opening the page the accordion menu is not located upon.

The latest version is available on the Accordion Menu page

Few Features and Update

New Customer Area

We have upgraded our current client area, now located at http://client.simplebydesign.co.uk.

The new system allows greater control of your account details, access to the services purchased and ability to add more to your account and easy to use. The following improvements to help us help you:

Our new Simple Control Panel Webmail is even easier to use, is faster to display messages and works in a wide range of web browsers with many advanced features. Some of the great new features include:

New Folder Support
Our updated Webmail system allows you to create as many folders as you need to easily store and organise your mail.

Email Storage
All mailboxes have now been upgraded from 50 MB to 100 MB.
WebMail storage has been upgraded from 100 MB to 250 MB.

Enhanced Calendar
This handy feature allows you to manage appointments (tasks) on a quarterly, annual, or daily basis.

Enhanced Address Book
Webmail's enhanced address book functionality allows you to import and export contacts from/to CSV (comma separated values) file format. You can also sync your Webmail account with your existing address-books.

Spell Checker
Spell check your email before sending it using the built in spell checker with a new and updated language database.

Mailbox Sorting & Searching
Messages contained in your Inbox can be sorted by subject, date, or email address. You can search your mailbox for keywords, allowing quick and easy access to your stored email.

Rich HTML Messages
Create eye-catching emails using different fonts and colours or by embedding pictures and sounds. Why not add your company logo or a customised signature? You can easily attach files to your emails to send to friends, family or colleagues.

Email Filters
Create rules to move specific messages or block unwanted senders altogether.

IMAP
Has been enabled on all mailboxes allowing you to connect to any of our mailservers using IMAP. With IMAP your mail is stored on the server, you can create folders and delete email and all these actions happen on the server. This means that you can use any IMAP compatible mail client such as Outlook Express, Windows Mail and Outlook on any computer connected to the Internet to read your email. Each mailbox can store up to 100 MB of email.

Simple Control Panel - Updates

Email Filter Logs have been updated so you can have the log emailed to you immediately.

Junk Mail Filters have been updated so you can choose to have the subject of an email that is suspected as SPAM changed to "***SPAM*** Original Subject". To enable this feature visit the Junk Mail Filters page in the Email Configuration area of Simple Control Panel.

Zencart upgraded to the latest version, you can install a new copy from the CGI/PHP Scripts area in Simple Control Panel.

Simple Control Panel- New Scripts to Install

RoundCube Webmail
RoundCube Webmail is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface. It provides full functionality you expect from an e-mail client, including MIME support, address book, folder manipulation, message searching and spell checking. Once installed you can use RoundCube to access any mailbox on our servers using IMAP.

Gallery
Share your pictures with others or view them over the internet. Upload your pictures while on holiday so you can take more. Create groups of people who can see different sets of pictures e.g. you might let your football team see pictures from matches.

MediaWiki
A collaborative technology for organizing information on Web sites. Work with others to maintain information. For example if you run a business you can share information with your colleagues at the same time as documenting it for yourself.

SugarCRM
A Customer Relationship Management application - This application lets a business keep track of its relationships with its customers. Users can manage customer accounts, contacts, sales leads, calls, meetings etc. A dashboard showing the most successful leads, the sales pipeline, and the month-by-month outcomes for opportunities in the pipeline can be displayed.

PHP 5 Update

You'll know PHP5 is now more popular than ever, many of you will know that to use PHP5 on our servers for your PHP file needs to end with .php5. We have now made a modification to our systems that are PHP5 enabled so you can set PHP5 to be the default version of PHP just for your website.

This means that you won't have to rename all your files to use PHP5. To set PHP5 as the default simply create a file within your public_html directory called .htaccess and place the following line in the file:-

SetEnv DEFAULT_PHP_VERSION 5

You can also still use the file extension .php5 if you want to run some files as PHP4 and some as PHP5.

PHP5 has also been upgraded to version 5.2.3

SOAP support has been added to PHP5 allowing PHP programmers to interact with SOAP based web services.

Web Server Updates

Ruby has been upgraded to 1.8.5 on all web servers.

Imagemagick and Ghostscript enabled and updated on all web servers.

Affiliate Scheme

We are pleased to announce we have just launched an Affiliate scheme. For each referral you will receive between 5 and 15% of the order placed and then earn 5% of every payment each customer you refer to us makes for the entire duration of their hosting account.

Tracking is instantaneous and you can check your account stats 24 hours a day, 7 days a week via our online reports. This way, you always know how much you're making. Once a month, we will Paypal your payment for the previous month's account activity (if you can't accept Paypal, then we will send you a cheque for a £2 processing fee) - based upon a minimum payout of £10.

For more information on our affiliate scheme click here, to sign up click here and login in with your account details.

SPAM WARNING: It is important that you do not spam. Don't send people unsolicited emails. Don't mass post on message boards.

Update: Accordion Menu

Its been a while since our last official update for the Accordion menu, though there have been a few intrim patches placed on our forums. Our thanks goes to all those who have let us know about any bugs or errors.

This new release now sees the accordion menu working on Joomla 1.5 in legacy mode, along with also working on IIS. For more information as to changes and download the new version visit the SBD Accordion Menus home page .

We have also added a few examples of CSS the menu uses to help customise the menu. 

Affiliate Program

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