We have introduced a new Advance Filter in the Admin Console for our Website clients that will allow clients to see all of their Entries that need attention.

Ensure that your photos, descriptions and details are the correct ones, giving your website visitors the best possible information.

A very useful tool when it comes to:

• search engine optimisation - fresh content is highly valuable
• seeing which Entries have recently been updated by yourself or your clients

Under the "Entries" tab in the Admin Console, the Advanced Filter allows the narrowing down of Entries.

From 22nd February 2012 we will no longer support the use of Internet Explorer 7 within our Admin Console.  

This will effect less than 2% of our users.

We will also stop checking client websites in IE7 as a matter of course.

Why can't we support it forever? 

Technologies and browsers move on, and we want to take adantage of them.

IE7 has limited support for HTML 5 and other web technologies that we want to use and give our users the best possible experience.

Internet Explorer 7 was released in October 2006 so it has had it's time.

Interested in watching IE7 use slowly vanish - check out theie7countdown.com.

We have made a big change to how Listings are controlled within our Websites.

Tribalogic Websites allow the listing and searching of Entries

Why?

There are lots of good reasons for us to make this change, even if it would appear to be more confusing than useful for some of our longer term clients.

Client relationship

The Service / Subscription model is better for representing your relationship to your client.

You can bundle multiple Entries together to reflect their relationship to your client.

Upgrade and downgrade

We can provide one great interface in the Admin Console for up/down grading Entries for both Listing and Booking services.

Automatically expiring Subscriptions

You can set an expiration date on a listing Subscription that will remind you to charge for a renewal or turn off the listing.

Future: charging for listings

In the future, we will be able to allow our clients to directly charge for Listings on their Websites.

Example: a typical holiday letting website

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

We have updated the Booking page in the Admin Console to assist with usability.

Old booking page

New booking page

So why did we change?

The old booking page did not distinguish between the different elements on the page very well so it was difficult to read and take in at a glance.

Also, recent changes to our Platform made changes easier to carry out.

What did we do?

We had a look at all of the information that was on a booking page and tried to arrange it in order of importance to our Admin Console users.

We then moved the important information to more prominent areas and distinguished the areas from each other. It is now easier to take in a booking quickly without having to scan down the page.

In order to hide the information that is not often required, we have hidden it under expandable regions.

Caravan Parkfinder NZ update!

We have updated Caravan Parkfinder NZ with a new look and feel.

We have taken the updates that we applied to Caravan Parkfinder AU and brought them to our New Zealand directory of campsites and caravan parks.

We are continually working on updates so keep your eye out for more improvements.

What has changed?

• Joomla! template - general look and feel
• scaled, responsive design - looks great on on mobiles and tablets (iPhones etc.)
• branding - new logo and colours
• free text location search on the home page
• updated full info pages

Take a look for yourself at www.caravan-parkfinder.co.nz

We have implemented a mobile version of The Edinburgh Address holiday apartments website.

To see it you will need to navigate to www.theedinburghaddress.com on your smartphone (iPhone, Android, Blackberry).

How did we do it?

So how did we go about showing mobile users a completely different interface?

• the mobile device is detected using a Joomla! plugin which switches to a Joomla! template designed specifically for mobile devices
• the mobile friendly interface is then achieved using the jQuery Mobile framework
• we created some specific Tribalogic Platform pages to output mobile specific HTML and smaller image sizes

Which devices will it look good on?

It should look great on iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch), Android, Windows Phone 7, Blackberry and many more... the list of jQuery Mobile supported platforms is impressive.

Want a mobile version of your Tribalogic website?

Mobile is a rapidly growing sector, quickly becoming difficult to ignore.

We can give any of our websites a mobile interface.

Simply ask.

• Product: Bookster Rooms
• Website: www.destinationedinburgh.uk.com
• Web design by: Bleep

Destination Edinburgh manage and maintain 18 gorgeous holiday apartments at three central and desirable locations in Edinburgh.

Bleep design studio provide the design for their website, also supply Destination Edinburgh ongoing maintenance and hosting.

Robin and all the staff at Tribalogic have been great to work with. Their software and the support is terrific and I would be happy to recommend them to future clients

Steven Horne - Bleep Design Studio

On the Destination Edinburgh website Bleep have incorporated Bookster Rooms availability calendars (e.g. destinationedinburgh.uk.com/luxury.html) to provide visitors availability and instantaneous online booking.

The booking screens are also branded to give customers more confidence in the booking process.

Bookster Rooms allows our team take bookings over the phone while visitors to the website can book easily and securely. The Sagepay integration has worked great for us too - with deposit payments going directly to our account.

Tribalogic have worked closely with our web designer to improve the effectiveness of our website and been on hand for advice when needed.

Andy Campbell - Destination Edinburgh

Destination Edinburgh staff all have individual access to bookings and apartment rates set up via the Admin Console. The Admin Console also allows staff to place bookings that have been taken over the phone or through channels other than via destinationedinburgh.uk.com.

We have updated the Entry Image Uploader in our Directory.

User interface

• slicker user experience
• better requesting of copyright permission

Under the hood

We have made some fundamental changes to the way we deal with images in the directory, making it possible to do lots more in future.

• now store original cropped images
• can resize images on the fly for use within directories
• static HTML cache of images code is now served when there are no changes
• new types of images are easier to define for Directory Entry Types

See release notes from v2.102

Caravan Parkfinder AU update!

We have updated Caravan Parkfinder AU with a brand new look and feel.

We let Laura loose on the tired old design and she has come up with some brilliant updates.

We are still working on various bits and bobs so keep your eye out for more updates.

What has changed?

• Joomla! template - general look and feel
• scaled, responsive design - looks great on on mobiles and tablets (iPhones etc.)
• branding - new logo and colours
• free text location search on the home page
• updated full info pages

Take a look for yourself at www.caravan-parkfinder.com.au

Auto responders in our Email Marketing Suite make it easy to stay in touch with your subscribers without lifting a finger.

Quickly build and schedule automated date-based campaigns. Send single emails or a sequence over time.

I have outlined some examples of how you can schedule Auto-responders to work with our Platform.

Example 1 - Keeping in touch after a holiday cottage booking

12th Jan [booking]

John Smith books Holly Cottage, arriving 10th July through www.brilliant-holiday-lets.com (a Property Portfolio website)

 9th Jul [auto-responder]

It is the day before John and his family are due to arrive at Holly Cottage - the auto-responder kicks in - he is sent an email to remind him of his booking and explaining how to pick up the keys

20th Jul [auto-responder]

A week after John departs, he is asked about his stay.  An email containing a link to a simple survey form made using Form Stack

12th Dec [auto-responder]

It is 11 months since he booked so John is sent an email reminding him that he booked his holiday cottage and asking him if he would like to book with Brilliant Holiday Lets Inc. again

Example 2 - How did we do email

20th Oct [enquiry]

Oliver Markham sends an enquiry to a camp site on www.caravan-parkfinder.com.au

27th Oct [auto-reponder]

Seven days after he sent his enquiry, an email is sent to Oliver asking if he found the information he was looking for and was there anything else we could do to help?