LGF Technical Update
Charles Johnson
Fri Dec 1, 2006 at 12:57 pm PST • Views: 133
Behind the scenes, a lot is changing. I’ve converted all our code that emails people for any reason (registrations, emailing articles to friends, contact form, etc.) to use an authenticated SMTP account with a very nice PHP mailer class, instead of the ‘sendmail’ based system we used to have. What this means to you: if you use a spam filter, emails from our automated system will now be delivered more reliably and won’t be flagged as spam, unless your email provider is especially zealous.
I’ve also made a change to our main page template code, to simplify the display of our masthead—the banner at the top with our logo and search form. Here’s the new test page. It should look nearly identical to the current LGF home page; I’ve tested it with every Mac browser and it looks fine. If you see something amiss, please leave a comment. (The browser I’m concerned about is, of course, the Windows version of Internet Explorer, aka Satan’s web browser.)
Frank says: