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Dear Users, Our website traffic has been growing tremendously these past few months. In order to accomodate the increased in traffic and to ensure that you have an enjoyable visit, we have improved the site performance:- 1. SERVER UPGRADE ================= We upgraded our server hardware by increasing the server's by adding more RAM to maximium capacity. 2. WEBSITE LAYOUT OPTIMISATION ============================== Having found that most users today use a browser that can support layer technology, we have just a few days ago introduced layering to majority of our web pages to greatly improve the layout and speed of the website. Users should noticed that most of the public…

" To be or not to be a member " Perhaps, we could ask `Sherlock Holmes' or Dr. Watson? 1. Often, the question comes to our mind: 2. Many sites in the Internet `requests' that you become a member. 3. Usually, this is `required' in order for us to post a question or use the tools available in the site. 4. Many of us are apprehensive of becoming `members' of so many sites. And each of us have our various concerns:- 4.1 How am I able to remember so many login accounts and passwords? 4.2 Will my information be safe? 5. What is the rationale for becoming a `member'. 5.1 Frankly, it is not so much of becoming a `member' that is important. 5.2 The main rationale is because, onl…

Dear Users, In our quest to make it an enjoyable experience to our website, we have added support for older versions of browsers that do not support new layering technology. 1. ADDED SUPPORT FOR OLD BROWSERS ================================= The new layer design makes surfing using newer versions of browser very much faster, but it will cause problems for older versions of browsers and even Netscape 4.x browsers. Therefore, if you still use an old version of a browser, you can serve effortlessly, all the resources even if your browser does not support layering. Later on, you might want to consider, upgrading to newer versions of your brower for both improved performance …

Dear Users, 1. Due to the growing amounts of e-mails, we receive daily, we were looking at ways and means to track and monitor all e-mails sent to us either for support or enquires. 2. We are pleased to inform you that, we now have a consolidated Message Centre. 3. This state-of-the-art message centre will allow us to keep track of all e-mails received, replied, KIV or unreplied messages that require one of our attention. 4. As usual, if you are seeking Free Advice, please post your message to this forum. 5. The following link serves as a guide on how you can post your message to us:- URL: http://www.geomancy.net/contact/contact.htm 6. Under this new advanced tracking s…

Dear Users, A while back, I had constructed two additional FAQs. We just published this two pages yesterday:- 1. Worry Free - International Off-site Package Visit this link to find out more about this relatively inexpensive service:- http://www.geomancy.net/consultation/consult-home/offsite-consultation.htm Many users have been constantly asking us if we have an International Off-site service. And the above resources will help you find more. 2. House Hunting: Can or Cannot Buy? 2.1 This is a hot topic, locally in my country. 2.2 I find some of the resources in this page is equally relevant for finding a good house in your country. Especially what to look out for if one w…

Dear Users, A. ADDED PAYPAL PAYMENT GATEWAY =============================== 1. Recently, several international users have feedback to us whether we support online Secure Credit Payment via PayPal.com. 2. We reviewed the feasiblity of a 2nd Payment Card Gateway and added PayPal as our alternative Secure Credit Card Payment gateway. 3. This will give international users an opportunity to make payment for our services via PayPal, particularly if you have an existing PayPal account. 4. In addition, this payment gateway allows payment for Visa / Mastercard / Discover / American Express. B. 15 MAY OFFERS EXTENDED FOR 1 WEEK ==================================== With this new gat…

Dear Users, One of our new initiatives was to convert some of our fixed resources into Mandarin (Chinese) - the native roots of Chinese Geomancy. We had previously converted a few of our pages in 1999 to Mandarin (Simplied and Traditional Mandarin). But at that time, Mandarin speaking users were few. With the emergence of China, (where Geomancy was banned during the communist era); today, more Chinese are surfing the net. Many Chinese nationality have a thrist for Geomancy and have written in us to consider having simplified Mandarin. We will be converting gradually, some of our resources into Simplied Mandarin first. As our site is pretty huge, we will be converting the…

Dear Users, There are many new updates at Geomancy.Net. FREE GEOMANCY NEWSLETTER ======================== We have updated & improved our newsletter subscription software. All you need to do is subscribe and unsubscribe to our Free Geomancy Newsletter, is to send an e-mail to newsletter@geomancy.net with the subject "Subscribe" or "Unsubscribe" or use our web-based subscription form located at our main page (http://www.geomancy.net). Our new Geomancy Issue will be sent out shortly to all users on a regular basis, and it will contain new site/resources updates, annoucements of Feng Shui Talks & Events, Special Offers and useful Feng Shui Tips/Learning Resources. …

Dear Users, 1 June to 4 June 2002 ===================== We apologise if you had difficulty accessing Geomancy.net or tried to e-mail us between 1 June to 4 June 2002. We had a server OS problem during this period and had to re-install the OS and restore all our backup DATA by 4 June 2002. Given the choice, we would not have used this `buggy' OS. But, since there is a near monopoly with this `Giant'; unfortunately there is not much good alternative around, here:( As of today, the server is fully restored and we took the opportunity to improve the entire website. If you had tried to send us an e-mail but was rejected or not sure if we had received it, please re-sending them…

Dear Users, CERTIFICATE REQUEST & ACCOUNT E-MAIL UPON SIGN-UP ========================================= 1. We just discovered that there was a bug in the Member Area whereby e-mails has not been sent out for initial Member Signup, Forgot Password Request or even Certificate Request. We have resolved this problem. 2. For students who had requested for their certificate but somehow it has not been processed, please request it again so that we do not miss out in preparing your certificates. URL: http://login.geomancy.net LAYER DESIGN TEMPLATES UPDATES =============================== 3. Faster access to the Picture Resource website, Polls, Surveys, Search site etc...usin…

Dear Users, We are expanding our support to include Chinese language E-mail and Website support. This was a busy week as we were busy installing a Workstation to fully support Chinese e-mail and Chinese website development. Now we are able to better support e-mail correspondence in Chinese as well as to prepare us to better translate our website into Chinese (Simplied Characters first, Traditional Characters later). One of our workstation will always be running the Chinese system so as to allow us to correspond and work on our Chinese version of the website. Apologise if our e-mail/forum response have been a little delayed this week as we install this multi-language suppo…

Dear Users, 1. FASTER ACCESS TO WEB PAGES AT GEOMANCY.NET ============================================= We have optimised the webserver in many area to increase it's overall performance. In addition we are taking advantage of the HTTP 1.1 which is now supported by all major and new web browsers. HTTP 1.1 take advantage of the various technologies to speed up your web browsing pleasure. Users can expect to access our website much faster smoother for both dial-up modem / DSL / cable connections. 2. FIX UP SOME DOWNLOAD ERRORS ============================== Users trying to download some of the .EXE (self extracting files) would have some problems due to website protection fe…

Dear Users, Geomancy.Net is in a totally new era with Multimedia content. New Site Design =============== 1. Less Graphics for Common Site Header. 2. DHTML Menu Navigation re-added to make finding contents to key sections of site easy, without cluttering the key navigational links! 3. FLASH Contents for interactive Animation Contents & Learning Resources are being added. 97% of all internet browsers already support this plugin. So we are making use of this technology to make the site even better! 4. Audio/Visual Talking Commentaries & Learning Resources to be added. 5. Multimedia Streaming & Learning contents via Digital Video Capture/MPEG/Window Media Play. (…

Dear Users, We have improved the Auspicious Date for Month report. 1. Added the Day of week: i.e. 01 Jan 2003 (Wed) 2. Added Chinese Lunar Date for each day. 3. Added Major Events such as 1 day, 1st month is Chinese New Year etc. This will reduce the need to reference a calendar to determine what day of the week it is, also when the major dates such as Qing Ming, Chinese New Year etc. There are several new reports not yet launched to the general public. Will make it available once it is ready. Hope you enjoy the new update! Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Users, Several New Analysis Reports added to our existing range of analysis reports. Currently these reports are only available for us to add value to our Professional Services. It is written so that it does the same analysis which we would do by hand and formatted the same way as we would present to our clients, except that:- - No human errors/omission will occur - Fully detailed analysis in all areas - Very well formatted graphically enhanced reports - These reports reduces the calculation needed and allow us to focus on final personalised analysis. Results: Shorter response time, yet very Detailed We will consider later if we would release it to the general publi…

Dear Users, We have made some revision to the free reports as follows:- 1. Free Ba Zi / Personal Element ================================ URL: http://www.geomancy.net/sample/pod-free.htm - Revised layout for Ba Zi, Favourable & Unfavourable. - Addition of 10-yearly Big Luck & Analysis for 12 periods of 120 years. 2. Free Problem Finding Report ============================== URL: http://www.geomancy.net/sample/fs20-free.htm To better allow users to make use of this report, the 20-year chart is shown, with only PROBLEM stars being displayed so that we can better help users who needs helps to solve you problem you might be facing. This website constantly improve th…

Dear Users, Since a recent update to the Free Element / Ba Zi element. We have made an additional improvement to that report and several other reports. 1. FREE ELEMENT / BA ZI REPORT ============================== The report will still treat all analysis a weak element. This is because the full analysis requires lots of computing power and this computing power is reserved only for our paid users who help to pay for the hosting cost. The Big Luck Period will now give the same analysis of their true element strength. However, this is still limited only to the 12 big luck periods. However, this means that this portion of the analysis should produce the same big luck reading…

Dear Users, We have improved the Live Chat Customer Care Support for providing better online support for users. 1. Added a double check to check if our client is currently connected to the server if not do not allow for chat. (This is to avoid previous problem of delays which may cause our internet chat to be delayed etc). If our Internet Chat Client is temporarily not able to connect to the server, it will set the helper to unavailable so that you will not be able to page until we are available again. 2. Added a current time and Helper's last refresh time so that clients can see if the helper is still connected and presently available to help the clients. These two featu…

Dear Users, Since last week, we had published the new site design with some sections of the site still un-upgraded. However, as of today, all sections on our website is fully using the new site design and layout. - With the DHTML menu, access to all key areas of the site is much easier and faster. - In addition the new site design comprise of a 160x160 Interactive Site Content Update Box. This update box allows us to create many interesting flash animations about our site features, learning contents, free stuffs, some advertisements for our sponsors as well as interactive learning modules. It will be key feature in the site to make our site more interesting as well as to …

Dear Users, Our various online reports have seen many updates throughout the year, and many of the version number was not updated during the many updates made. This is update to update all the version number of the reports as nearly all reports have seen additional analysis modules, new & improved analysis features etc added. Some was to remove the BETA edition as most of the reports made available publicly is no longer a BETA. Some was to change the name of the module as the module was revised from another module etc. To summary, an update of the Name of the Module and Version number of the modules. Most notable change in Reports ============================== 1. Pi…

Dear Users, We have fixed the links problems to this section of the site, and have updated the entire template of the links directory site to create a uniform look on the website. This has been a useful link directory with collection of resources organised neatly into sections with a searchable database. We also updated our common navigational links to include this as a major part of the of Geomancy.Net. URL: http://mydirectory.geomancy.net Hope you enjoy the updates. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Users, We have decided to release the Ba Zi Overall Summary for all Pillars of Destiny Premium Users. We have revised the Ba Zi Pillars access to include this report for all paid users to enjoy. This report gives you a concise summary of the ba zi report in a brief single report. Answering most of the key questions that most users are looking for. Ba Zi Overall Summary ...................... http://www.geomancy.net/sample/pod-overall-summary.htm This is a very summarised report which summarises all the key information according to topics which we found that clients are looking for. The ideal is to give an overall summary focusing which areas are health related prob…

This is the link to the FAQ on our Free Feng Shui talks:- http://www.geomancy.net/../events/events.htm In general, there are three types of talks held by us:- Choice 1: Yearly Fortune Talk: Year of the Goat 2003 Timing: To fit your needs. Estimated duration: 1 talk Session: Lunch-time or evening talk Availability: Weekdays (Mon-Sat) or Weekends (Sun) This type of talk is usually held in the early months prior to Chinese New Year e.g. Year of the Goat 2003. This talk has a flavour of both what is in store for the new year as well as Feng Shui tips:- "Find out your fortune in the Year of the Water Sheep. Join Master Cecil Lee as he unfolds what lies ahead for each Chinese…

Dear Users, We have improved the site design for the Free Advice Forum. 1. Forum Messages are now easier to read with a cleaner layout. 2. Conference Listing's width is widen to give all the space necessary to list all the topics without letting the content wrap to the next line. Font size have also be increased so that the text can be read easily. 3. Common Navigation layout have been reduced so that more space is given to the conference listing and also improve the loading time for the topics list. 4. Fix up some links error to Member's Sign up and login (as it was pointed to an old url which is no longer used.) Hope that you enjoy the new changes to the forum! Warmest …

Dear Users, We have made some changes to the Free Advice Forum. 1. Rename of Newsgroup Topics Users accessing the forum via your Newsreader should reload the subscription topics and subscribe to the newly re-organised topics description. 2. Conference Name have also been clean up so that you can better tell which are Information Conferences and which are Discussion Topics. For example:- Info :: Photo Tours of Interest (with Pictures) Info :: Singapore Property Review These are conferences which are considered learning resournces that you can read messages but cannot post into it. It allows us to constantly post new learning resources easily through these Info conferences.…