Updates! Geomancy.Net website enhancements to-date

[Robert Lee]

Dear Users,

It has been a busy year for us in 2008. There has been many changes made to the website. Some changes should be noticed by users, while some are backend changes that may not be so easily noticed by users. We usually like to keep a record of changes to be added to our milestones.

1) One of the most popular changes would be the release of an updatedDaily Chinese Horoscope & Ba Zi Forecast:-

URL: http://daily.geomancy.net

We noticed many users bookmarking this forecast for your daily use

2) With the Daily Forecast, we also introduced an updated Yearly Forecast Layout for 2009 and upto 2013:-

URL: http://www.geomancy.net/resources/yearly-forecast/yearly-forecast.htm

Again, we noticed that users were extremely pleased with the improved layout and highly detailed breakdown for all the different horoscope

3) With the introduction of the forecast, we had also made backend improves to the many advanced reports (which is not accessable through our online member reports). We do have some improvements planned for the Ba Zi Premium users in time to come. So look out for more on this in future updates.

4) We even launched a new wiki.geomancy.net feature to make it easy for Cecil to collate all the useful resources into one single area.

URL: http://wiki.geomancy.net

5) Due to so many postings on the forum since 1996, we found that our default search sometimes cannot find the right resources asit sorts more by the date of the post. As such, we had replaced it with the Google SiteSearch which we find able to find the correct site resources that you are looking for.

This is possible because our website is extensively indexed by Google, and that makes finding the correct resources easier with the powerful search algorithm.

6) Access to our member area and personalised report area is now enabled torequire SSL encryption security. This is to provide additional security and privacy to our members.

Although, this feature was already available many years back. We did not enforce it as the report generate especially for complex report would slow downsignificantly. However, due to our recent dual harpertown server upgrade last year, we found that the reports would not slow down as much as it did in the past.As such, decided to enforcemake SSLlogin a requirement for all member area.

URL: https://www.geomancy.net/members/members-login/members-login-secure.htm

7) eNETS Credit Card Payment Gateway since Nov 2008, need to be upgraded. We had been working on it and the new and improved gateway should be made available by end Jan 2009. The live transaction is scheduled to be ready on 19 Jan 2009 but it will take us a few days to test and make sure the integration is 100% ready before we enable it back to users to make use.

For the time being, users could still make payment via paypal.com our alternative payment gateway.

8) Server Date and Time has been changed to GMT +0800 (Singapore Time), rather than the default US server time. This is so that we no longer need to apply GMT time changes to any of our online reports. Also, this will make forum/email date and time correspond more correctly to our local time, rather than to the local time of where our server is hosted.

9) Recently, we have been using Firefox/Google Chrome/Safari browser much more than we normally do. As we were using these alternative browsers, we detected some html page formatting differences when viewed in these browsers. As I see these formatting differences, I try to fix them so that they will be viewed as correctly as it would be when you use the Internet Explorer.

10) We also constantly upgrade our server software. This is to ensure we have the latest server technology to make sure the website can support the latest technology. We also constantly make sure our website is optimised properly so that it takes a little time for the server to generate the page. This will ensure that server can handle lots of traffic at any single moment. So far wehave yet to see the server slow down even with the increased traffic.

Although we have not posted much website announcements. There has been quite a lot of enhancements made overthe year. These are just some of the milestone upgrades that we want to keep track for the year.

Wishing all users a Happy and Prosperous Chinese New Year!

Warmest Regards
Robert Lee
GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research