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Web Site Maestro Changelog

What's new in Web Site Maestro 8.7.6

Oct 15, 2013
  • Fixed an error in customizing the File Extensions listing

New in Web Site Maestro 8.7.5 (Sep 2, 2013)

  • Improved overall performance

New in Web Site Maestro 8.7.4 (Mar 20, 2013)

  • Fixed an error in optimizing script code.

New in Web Site Maestro 8.7.3 (Nov 16, 2012)

  • Changed Advanced Settings under the Sync tab of Options. 'Verifying the FTP server time offset' is now a standard option.
  • Downloading files from your website now works without a false error message.

New in Web Site Maestro 8.7.2 (Oct 22, 2012)

  • Updated the Manual

New in Web Site Maestro 8.7 (Aug 20, 2012)

  • Fixed some minor issues.
  • Reduced the sales price with USD 7.

New in Web Site Maestro 8.6.8 (Jun 7, 2012)

  • Removed some innocent alert messages

New in Web Site Maestro 8.6.7 (Feb 1, 2012)

  • When applying the "Restore Local Web Folder" command from the Transfer menu, parent folder names are now also displayed while downloading files.
  • Fixed a bug that could stall the upload process when an 'image' to be uploaded contains 0 bytes.
  • The end tags and are no longer removed when "Removing optional end tags" is activated.

New in Web Site Maestro 8.6.6 (Jan 16, 2012)

  • If the JPEG Image Quality Index is set to 100%, PNG images can now still be optimized.
  • Fixed an error that could unintentionally set the JPEG Image Quality index to 40%.

New in Web Site Maestro 8.6.5 (Dec 12, 2011)

  • Updated some dialog windows.
  • Fixed some minor bugs occurring in rare situations.

New in Web Site Maestro 8.6.4 (Nov 1, 2011)

  • Fixed a bug that could corrupt certain JavaScript widgets.

New in Web Site Maestro 8.6.1 (Aug 23, 2011)

  • Improved optimizing FluxBB code.
  • Corrected the error message when trying to upload a file to a directory without permission.
  • Updated some dialog windows.

New in Web Site Maestro 8.6 (Jul 31, 2011)

  • Added the option to put Google Analytics code just before the tag of each optimized file, for each web folder separately.
  • Added to the Transfer tab of Options the advanced option to select a secure connection type.
  • Changed "Font Size of Lists, Logs and Manual" under the Extra tab of Options to "Font Size of Main Window Logs".
  • "File Extensions" under the Filters tab of Options is no longer an advanced setting.

New in Web Site Maestro 8.5.4 (Jun 20, 2011)

  • Fixed some minor bugs.

New in Web Site Maestro 8.5.1 (May 7, 2011)

  • Fixed a bug that caused endless resuming uploading to a slow-responding server.

New in Web Site Maestro 8.5 (Apr 29, 2011)

  • The upload process will now resume from where it left off when a short internet service outage has occurred.
  • Improved checking for broken links.
  • Removed the "Add..." button from the Filters tab in Options.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause in rare cases that a changed original file doesn't overwrite the duplicate file.
  • Fixed a bug that disabled FTPS uploading while synchronizing your website.
  • The "Qualify URLs" option no longer corrupts Google Analytics code.

New in Web Site Maestro 8.4.2 (Feb 21, 2011)

  • When optimizing only JPEG and PNG images the non-optimized web pages and libraries are now listed with the annotation "(cancelled)".

New in Web Site Maestro 8.4.1 (Feb 17, 2011)

  • The "Optimize only JPEG and PNG images" checkbox is now unchecked when opening Web Site Maestro for the first time after having used version 8.3.2 or earlier.
  • The "Restore Local Web Folder" command from the Transfer menu is now also available for the WebDAV protocol.

New in Web Site Maestro 8.4 (Feb 9, 2011)

  • Added a setting to optimize only JPEG and PNG images.
  • Improved the "Check (and Complete) Tags" function.
  • Improved the "Check for Broken Links" function.
  • Added a menu command to the Edit menu to select only JPEGs and PNGs for uploading.

New in Web Site Maestro 8.3.2 (Jan 17, 2011)

  • Fixed a bug that corrupted WishList Member plugins for Wordpress.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause in rare cases that not all remote files are downloaded when restoring a lost web folder.

New in Web Site Maestro 8.3 (Nov 17, 2010)

  • Improved compatibility with Windows NT servers for uploading files and creating folders.
  • Smart Handling in File Size mode now also works the very first time you use this method.

New in Web Site Maestro 8.25 (Oct 23, 2010)

  • Fixed a bug that could stall uploading in rare cases.

New in Web Site Maestro 8.24 (Oct 6, 2010)

  • Fixed a bug that could cause an infinite loop when getting a remote directory listing or when synchronizing your site.

New in Web Site Maestro 8.23 (Sep 14, 2010)

  • PNGs with a useless mask are much better optimized.
  • Changed the minimum JPEG Image Quality Index to 40%.
  • The "PNG Compression Level" in Options is now a general setting instead of an advanced setting.

New in Web Site Maestro 8.22 (Aug 9, 2010)

  • Average load and display time of your site after optimizing has been improved, based on new statistics
  • Corrected "The View Page Button" chapter in the Manual

New in Web Site Maestro 7.8.1 (Jun 8, 2010)

  • Fixed a bug that could cause in rare cases that synchronizing your website resulted in uploading files which did not need to be uploaded.

New in Web Site Maestro 7.8 (May 27, 2010)

  • Changed the advanced setting 'PNG Compression Level' in Options.
  • Optimizing PNG images with a mask works noticeably faster with large web folders.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause that the 'Total Size' number of your web folder is not correct.
  • Fixed a bug that - when checking for broken links - prevented the detection of a missing target in a file when the target is specified in a link to that file.

New in Web Site Maestro 7.7 (Mar 5, 2010)

  • Improved the optimizer engine.
  • Removing unneeded quotation marks works more reliable.
  • Changed some text in the Manual.
  • The trial version also shows skipped files in the optimizer log.

New in Web Site Maestro 7.6.9 (Jan 25, 2010)

  • Fixed some minor bugs.

New in Web Site Maestro 7.6.7 (Dec 7, 2009)

  • JPEGs with a leading underscore in their name are now permitted, even if the option to skip files whose name starts with an underscore is selected.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause that non-optimized files are not uploaded correctly in Smart Handling mode.

New in Web Site Maestro 7.6.6 (Nov 24, 2009)

  • JPEGs with a leading underscore in their name are now permitted, even if the option to skip files whose name starts with an underscore is selected.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause that non-optimized files are not uploaded correctly in Smart Handling mode.

New in Web Site Maestro 7.6.5 (Nov 15, 2009)

  • Fixed some minor bugs

New in Web Site Maestro 7.6.4 (Oct 29, 2009)

  • Simplified the method to add Google Analytics code to each HTML file.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause a false dialog when pressing the Cancel button in Options.

New in Web Site Maestro 7.6.3 (Oct 12, 2009)

  • Some dialog texts have been rewritten.

New in Web Site Maestro 7.6.2 (Sep 16, 2009)

  • Fixed a bug that caused that a missing remote directory could not be created automatically if the Initial Path in Transfer Settings is blank.

New in Web Site Maestro 7.6.1 (Sep 1, 2009)

  • Added the option to convert PNGs without masks to JPEGs when optimizing images.
  • If you uncheck "Optimize JPEG Images" and/or "Optimize PNG Images", optimized images are now reverted to their original state while optimizing.

New in Web Site Maestro 7.6 (Aug 12, 2009)

  • The directory structure of the duplicate web folder is automatically monitored and updated, each time you use the program. This makes the program more user-friendly.
  • Most windows are now drop-down type windows connected to the Main Window.
  • Resolved some minor issues of the "List Non-Optimized Files" window.
  • Fixed a bug that, since version 7.5, prevented the "Same Again" button from working.
  • Fixed a bug that, since version 7.3, changed your serial number in the "About Web Site Maestro" window to dots.

New in Web Site Maestro 7.5.3 (Jul 27, 2009)

  • Fixed a new FTP bug that originated in version 7.5.2.
  • Added the option to the "List Non-Optimized Files" window to specify a custom date for the 'Since date' Smart Handling mode.

New in Web Site Maestro 7.5.2 (Jul 18, 2009)

  • Added a window "List Non-Optimized Files" that will make it easier for you to use Smart Handling when uploading non-optimized files.
  • Fixed a bug that, in very rare cases, disabled FTP uploading while synchronizing your website.

New in Web Site Maestro 7.5.1 (Jul 10, 2009)

  • Fixed a bug that could stall the upload process when a file's parent directory was missing on the server.
  • Fixed a bug that caused that FTP uploading to a Windows server did not work (most servers are Unix though).

New in Web Site Maestro 7.5 (Jun 24, 2009)

  • FTP Uploading works much faster. The code has been totally rewritten.
  • WebDAV and FTP transfer works now also with non-ASCII characters in file names or folder names.
  • File names are shown with their folder name while being uploaded.
  • Non-optimized files can be listed and uploaded using Smart Handling.
  • The function "Upload Non-Optimized Files" has been removed from the Function drop down menu on the Main Window. It has been replaced by "List Non-Optimized Files for Uploading" in the Transfer menu.
  • The settings under the Transfer tab of Options have been made easier.
  • Added a menu command to the Configure menu to move your web folders in the Web Folder Drop Down menu to another position.
  • Improved feedback to the user while synchronizing a website with the duplicate web folder.
  • Fixed a bug that caused that very large websites could not be synchronized.

New in Web Site Maestro 7.3.2 (May 27, 2009)

  • Fixed a bug that caused that the Refresh/Sync Log could not be saved.
  • Fixed some minor bugs.

New in Web Site Maestro 7.3.1 (May 15, 2009)

  • The first two commands from the Manage menu and the checkbox "Check Duplicate Web Folder Integrity" in Options have been removed. Their actions are now automated.
  • Fixed an FTP timeout issue.
  • Fixed a bug that caused a false alert when optimizing certain php code.
  • Fixed a new bug that caused that the "Perform Test Run" option for synchronizing your website did not work.

New in Web Site Maestro 7.3 (Apr 17, 2009)

  • Added the option to put custom Site Analytics code just before the tag of each optimized file, for each web folder separately.
  • Improved reliability and speed of FTP and FTPS uploading.
  • Fixed a bug that could inadvertently change the Smart Handling mode.

New in Web Site Maestro 7.2.4 (Mar 29, 2009)

  • Fixed a bug in the previous version that caused an error when getting the FTP server time offset.
  • Substantially decreased the amount of time required to get a directory listing or synchronizing a website in case that the FTP server truncates the output to 2000 matches (or any other number).

New in Web Site Maestro 7.2.2 (Mar 12, 2009)

  • Fixed a bug introduced in version 7.2.1 that prevented some files from being uploaded when synchronizing your website with your web folder.

New in Web Site Maestro 7.2.1 (Mar 11, 2009)

  • Fixed a bug that could cause a connection error and/or a transfer error in rare cases.

New in Web Site Maestro 7.2 (Mar 6, 2009)

  • Improved synchronizing your website with your web folder in the case that the FTP server does not support recursive directory listing and/or that your web folder has subfolders whose name contains one or more space characters. The same improvement applies to getting a directory listing.
  • Improved optimizing web pages.

New in Web Site Maestro 7.1.3 (Feb 18, 2009)

  • Optimizing small PNG images works now better and faster.

New in Web Site Maestro 7.1.2 (Feb 6, 2009)

  • Fixed a bug that could cause a sudden drop in optimizing JPEG images.
  • Fixed some minor bugs

New in Web Site Maestro 7.1 (Jan 29, 2009)

  • Smart Handling can now also be used with web folders created in an HTML Editor that updates the modification dates of all files even if only one file was changed. For this purpose the mode "File Size" has been added to the existing three modes.
  • The Options Window has a new checkbox named "Show Advanced Options", to enable you to hide or show advanced controls.
  • You can drag your web folder or its sub-folder(s) or its file(s) to the Drop Spot if your web folder is listed in the Web Folder drop down menu.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause a wrong style of all your web pages.
  • Changed the default JPEG Quality Index to 69.

New in Web Site Maestro 7.0 (Jan 6, 2009)

  • PNG images with a mask are now also optimized.
  • Added the option to remove unneeded quotation marks from attributes and hyperlink strings.
  • Added a contextual menu to the Log.
  • Added a command "List Non-Optimized Files" to the Transfer menu.
  • Improved optimizing css code.
  • After optimizing your entire site the Log displays the average load time and display time speed up percentage.
  • The Log indicates "Cancelled" when either a JPEG or a PNG image has not been optimized because either "Optimize JPEG Images" or Optimize PNG Images" has been turned off in Preferences.
  • Added a warning for file names with one or more non-ASCII characters.
  • Selecting all optimizer log lines from a very large web folder (more than 1000 files) shows no delay any more.
  • Fixed some minor bugs.

New in Web Site Maestro 6.7.4 (Dec 17, 2008)

  • After optimizing your entire web folder the Log displays "Original Total Bytes", Total Bytes Saved" and "Percentage Saved".
  • Links of the type a href="#link" can now be checked case sensitive.
  • A mirror site can now be synchronized with the parent site's web folder (only valid for the FTP protocol).
  • Selecting all optimizer log lines from a very large web folder (more than 1000 files) shows no delay any more, also when optimizing and uploading in one pass.
  • Fixed a bug that caused that coded links in JavaScript were reported as broken links.
  • Fixed a bug that caused that a mirror site was only synchronized correctly when it was synchronized the second time immediately after the first time (only valid for the FTP protocol).

New in Web Site Maestro 6.7.3 (Nov 8, 2008)

  • Improved external link checking.
  • Broken external links are now displayed in bold text. If you double-click such a link, the URL is copied to the clipboard.
  • Removed "Recount Files for Link Checking" from the Manage menu. It's no longer required.
  • If necessary the duplicate web folder directory is automatically updated before optimizing.

New in Web Site Maestro 6.7.2 (Oct 28, 2008)

  • Corrected an error in the menu bar of the Options Window

New in Web Site Maestro 6.7 (Oct 20, 2008)

  • The directory structure of your website is checked before uploading files, and updated if necessary. This will avoid an error message when uploading new files whose remote parent directory does not exist.
  • You can now also skip folders when synchronizing your website. The file/folder field under the Sync tab of Preferences has been improved.
  • Added a Quick Start section to the Help menu.
  • Fixed odd behavior when dragging transparent PNG images that did not belong to any of your web folders.
  • Fixed some minor bugs

New in Web Site Maestro 6.5.2 (Jul 19, 2008)

  • When synchronizing your web site, names of files being uploaded are shown before the upload is complete.
  • Added the sync option to skip cgi-bin folders. Until now they were always skipped when synchronizing a web site.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause an error when synchronizing your web site or getting a directory listing (FTP only).
  • Fixed a bug that corrupted your login data if the name of your web folder contained a period, slash or tilde.

New in Web Site Maestro 6.2 (Sep 13, 2007)

  • Extended the 'Skip Files Whose Name Starts/Ends With' options under the Sync Tab of Options.
  • Made the Tag Checking Options section under the Miscellaneous Tab user-friendlier in case that the 'Add missing...' optimization options have been checked.

New in Web Site Maestro 6.1 (Aug 6, 2007)

  • Changed the operating requirements (see above under �Required�)
  • Added the option to automatically verify the server time offset before synchronizing your web site. This is useful if the server clock is inaccurate.
  • If links are reported as broken while they are not, you will get a message how to prevent this.
  • Fixed a bug that corrupted Statcounter code.
  • Fixed a bug that caused on Windows Vista that the progress bar did not indicate the progress of files being uploaded.

New in Web Site Maestro 6.0.3 (Jul 6, 2007)

  • Improved optimizing web pages with unbalanced tags.
  • Adjusted the frame of the Image Viewer to minimize the use of scroll bars.

New in Web Site Maestro 6.0.2 (Jun 25, 2007)

  • Fixed a bug that could cause that the five JPEG extensions were not saved in the Extensions List in Options. Hence JPEG images were not optimized.

New in Web Site Maestro 6.0.1 (Jun 19, 2007)

  • Fixed a bug that could allocate a wrong creator type to images.
  • Fixed a bug that caused that changed JPEG images are not uploaded when synchronizing your web site if the option to optimize JPEG images has been turned off.
  • Removed the option to specify server time offset tolerance. It's no longer required.

New in Web Site Maestro 5.51 (May 12, 2007)

  • The program can now only be used on Mac OS 9.2.2. On earlier Mac OS 9 versions the program worked unreliable.

New in Web Site Maestro 5.5 (Mar 26, 2007)

  • FTPS (FTP over SSL / TLS) is now available for secure transfer of your username, password and files over the Internet. The server should support FTPS, of course.
  • osCommerce and Wordpress software is now supported.
  • Fixed a bug that could occur when relocating the WSM Output folder.

New in Web Site Maestro 5.42 (Mar 16, 2007)

  • Fixed a new bug that caused that mirror-uploading did not work.
  • Fixed a bug that could corrupt script code in rare cases.

New in Web Site Maestro 5.3.1 (Jan 20, 2007)

  • The 'case sensitive' setting in Sync Options now also applies to folder names.
  • When uploading large amounts of bytes, 'Bytes Sent' is no longer displayed in scientific notation.
  • Fixed a new bug in v.5.3 that caused that web sites hosted on servers that do not support recursive directory listings, could not be synchronized.

New in Web Site Maestro 5.3 (Jan 12, 2007)

  • Added the same options and features as currently present in the Mac OS X model.

New in Web Site Maestro 5.3 (Jan 12, 2007)

  • The program is now Vista-ready.
  • The FTP part of the program has been totally rewritten, resulting in reliable and fast uploading, downloading and synchronizing.
  • Added the option to not optimize and/or upload files whose name starts with an underscore.
  • The Timeout value in FTP Settings can now be set for each web folder individually.

New in Web Site Maestro 5.2.3 (Dec 5, 2006)

  • Fixed a bug that could cause wrong 'Failed to...' messages when synchronizing your web site.
  • Files in a restored web folder now get the right modification date.
  • Directory listings from servers that truncate the output are now handled well.
  • Added the option to remove ghost characters.

New in Web Site Maestro 5.2.2 (Sep 26, 2006)

  • Increased upload speed considerably when synchronizing your web site.
  • Upload progress is displayed during uploading when synchronizing.
  • Added 'Total Size' to the remote directory listings, enabling you for instance to detect the size of your web site if you had chosen 'All Directories'.
  • Added under the Filters and Sync tabs in Options a text box indicating the current web folder.
  • Skipping folders whose name starts with an underscore works now correctly when synchronizing.
  • Fixed a bug that could corrupt JavaScript code.
  • Fixed a bug that displayed text within multiple NOBR tags as one line.

New in Web Site Maestro 5.1.4 (Jul 20, 2006)

  • Corrected some text in the Manual.

New in Web Site Maestro X 5.1.4 (Jul 3, 2006)

  • When switching web folders while a server connection is live, the current connection is closed before the switch is made (when you have chosen in FTP Settings not to disconnect from the server after each action).
  • Where appropriate, the 'Process' indicator changes to 'Status' indicator or vice versa.
  • Added the option to skip an optimized file that could not be stored in its parent folder (because the duplicate web folder directory needs to be updated).

New in Web Site Maestro X 5.0.3 (May 15, 2006)

  • When removing redundant editor tags, Dreamweaver elements are now also removed.
  • Improved optimizing HTML code with a huge amount of superfluous white space characters.
  • It's no longer required having an index file in your web folder.
  • Added the option to skip folders whose name starts with an underscore while synchronizing your web site. Default is not skipping.
  • Fixed a bug that could corrupt files of the type "abc.htm_pqr_xyz.gif".
  • Fixed a bug that truncated long names of downloaded files to 31 characters.

New in Web Site Maestro 4.4.9 (May 15, 2006)

  • When removing redundant editor tags, Dreamweaver elements are now also removed.
  • Improved optimizing HTML code with a huge amount of superfluous white space characters.
  • It's no longer required having an index file in your web folder.
  • Fixed a bug that could corrupt files of the type "abc.htm_pqr_xyz.gif".

New in Web Site Maestro 5.0.3 (May 15, 2006)

  • When removing redundant editor tags, Dreamweaver elements are now also removed.
  • Improved optimizing HTML code with a huge amount of superfluous white space characters.
  • It's no longer required having an index file in your web folder.
  • Added the option to skip folders whose name starts with an underscore while synchronizing your web site. Default is not skipping.
  • Fixed a bug that could corrupt files of the type "abc.htm_pqr_xyz.gif".

New in Web Site Maestro 4.4.7 (Mar 6, 2006)

  • Fixed a bug that could make it necessary to press the Stop button after uploading has finished, in order to enable the menu bar and reset some controls in the Main Window.