For the first time in over a year, Penweb has updated its proprietary database program, Self-Control™, the program that delivers your web pages of data. In addition to the previously announced upgrade that allows HTML generated by Self-Control™ to meet specs for handheld devices, it has 2 important new features that will make it easier for you to maintain your web site.
You will no longer have to be careful about pasting carriage returns, tabs or page breaks into text fields, which tells the program that this is the end of that record. Instead of using checks for this that require you end all paragraphs with a period, now all extra spaces and carriage returns are removed automatically by the database as you save the record.
This should make it much easier to enter data without worrying that you're going to make an error that will lose much of what you've entered.
Also, now instead of being your data being confined to one row for each record, you can instead have multiple columns of data on a web page. You can have 2, 3 or more items in each row, so the data appears in a table, instead of being just rows of data. For most of you this probably won't be of any value, but some of you may find it's a better layout for your pages of data.
If you'd like to upgrade to Self-Control™ v2.3, please let me know and I'll take care of it. This also would be a good time for those of you with older web sites to upgrade its outdated HTML into XHTML, which will display correctly on all browsers and most handheld devices for years to come.