OK, version 1.3 of the news script is available now. I've just updated the FAQ related to it as well.

If you want to enable search-engine friendly URLs, follow the instruction in the "htaccess.txt" file included. Hope it isn't too hard for anyone not familiar with mod_rewrite. I'll write a script to generate the ".htaccess" file automatically later as I'm too sleepy right now.

Well, have you noticed any changes on my website? Yeah, the news script can now output friendly URLs as well. Have a look at the demo page for more examples. The script's control panel is also pretty much complete. You may expect version 1.3 to be available some time next week.

Yesterday, my host went through some crazy mode, gah..

I've been working on version 1.3 of the news script. For anyone who expected to have a multi-user system as I wrote in its roadmap before, too bad, I lied. I'll be focused on making it for personal use only.

Some new features which have been implemented so far are locking posts and custom publishing date. The spell checker is work in progress, though. The final bit I want to implement is making the links search engine friendly, e.g. "2006/7/my-post/" instead of "?post=1234".

Also I've found this spell checker, but for some reasons, I don't like it.

While waiting for Firefox 2 with a built-in spell checker, I've decided to make my own one. It uses the good old PSpell library. If the checker works well, I'll implement it in the new version of the news script.

Feedback for Opera and Safari is welcome 'cause I don't use them.