Welcome to the WebCards project
Keep visitors returning to your site again and again with this powerful, efficient and easy to use e-card system.
Featuring a full administration centre with a simple interface, visitors will enjoy communicating with their friends, bringing you more and more visitors.
WebCards features a thumbnail generator, advanced banning controls, template editor, language manager, basic SQL manager and email log manager.
All of this combined with the flexibility of the open source licence and powered by the popular PHP scripting language.
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WebCards Blog 
Internet Explorer 8 Beta Released
Posted: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:09:26 +0000
Microsoft has released a beta version of Internet Explorer 8.
You can download it from the Internet Explorer 8 website.
Release notes are also available.
New WebCards Website Design
Posted: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:08:50 +0000
Today I unveil the new WebCards Website design. I hope you like it.
The site should be easier to navigate and the HTML is much more lightweight. The XHTML validates (mostly) to the XHTML Strict specification. Please let me know if you have any problems with the new design or experience any errors. Leave your ffedback over at the forums.
Why Linux Is Not Spreading
Posted: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:46:12 +0000
I came across an Article via Slashdot entitled Why Linux Doesn’t Spread - the Curse of Being Free. It is a very good read and tries to explain some of the reasons that Linux hasn’t taken off big time. Although my opinion is that Windows is dominant simply because every PC you buy comes installed with it, the main focus of the article is the fact that Linux is free.
He sums is up very well with this paragraph:
We don’t value things we can get easily. Yet we’d climb mountains, cross rivers and travel across deserts just to reach something we can’t easily get our hands on.
When you think about it, humans do tend to equate price with quality. More expensive must mean better quality. True in a lot of cases, yes, but not all the time.
My own experience however, is that I just prefer Windows. Sure it has many, many problems but I know how to use it and I am comfortable with it. I have tried using different versions of Linux in the past but I become frustrated with using it. I know with some persistence I will get the hang of it but I really don’t have the patience. And if I, an experienced computer user, can’t get the hang of it, how is the average inexperienced user going to get to grips with it.
Upcoming Feature: Bulk Upload
Posted: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:05:14 +0000
I just wanted to let people know about the latest feature coming in the next version of WebCards: bulk upload.
You simply upload all your chosen images to a specified folder (”import”) and refresh the page. All the images in the folder will be listed. You can choose which ones to upload and choose and name an category for each one. Thumbnails are automatically generated. There is no messing about with advanced options and it is a very quick way to add a lot of images.
The screnshot on the left shows what the bulk uploader looks like in the admin centre. As you can see, you don’t have to import all the images and you can choose which ones to upload.
I am keen to know what you think of this feature and anything you think needs adding or changing with it. Please post any suggestions you have on the forums.
How Popular is Firefox? Depends Which Statistics You Look At
Posted: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:10:46 +0000
French Internet traffic analysis company XiTi has released data showing that Firefox is slowly increasing its market share over Internet Explorer. Their results are based on compiled data from 2007.
XiTi Monitor reports a worldwide browser share of 66.1% for Internet Explorer and 28% for Firefox. Opera has a 3.3% share and Safari 2%. Firefox usage is as high as 45.4% in Finland. You can take a look at the full statistics over on Wired’s blog.
But are these statistics any more useful than any other statistics. Opera says no.
Interestingly, XiTi’s map misses out several European countries where Opera claim their browser is popular.
From Opera’s blog:
People may not be aware of this, but Opera is doing pretty well in Russia. In fact, some Russian stats suggest that Opera may have more users than Firefox… Whether this is the case or not is not that important (and as we know, browser stats are highly unreliable), but it is rather interesting that this particular country is left out, as if it wasn’t part of Europe at all!
The important thing to realise about browser statistics is where they come from. XiTi’s data can only come from a small set of websites that use their services. Most statistical data will be skewed in some direction or another.
Take this website for example. In 2007 32.7% of visitors used Firefox. But this is a website for webmasters. They tend to be more tech savvy and so I would expect this site to have a higher proportion of Firefox users than, say Google.
So whenever you are relying on web browser statistics, bear in mind that the data you are using is probably (as Opera says) “crappy.”