News from the world of Tribalogic, providing Joomla CMS hosting, hosted directories and hosted booking services. http://www.tribalogic.net Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:58:40 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.tribalogic.net/images/M_images/rss.png http://www.tribalogic.net News from the world of Tribalogic, providing Joomla CMS hosting, hosted directories and hosted booking services. http://www.tribalogic.net/content/view/152/33/ Goodbye Gerome, Hello John Last month saw a change in faces around the Tribalogic Lair, with the arrival of John and the departure of Gerome. Blog/News - General Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:57:24 +0100 http://www.tribalogic.net/content/view/151/33/ Coming soon... Bookster Rooms We have developed interfaces to our booking platform that are suitable for B Bs, Hostels and small Hotels. It will be called Bookster Rooms . Bookster Rooms will include: many of the features of Bookster Self Catering (http://www.booksterhq.com/); set up rates for multiple rooms; booking screens that allow the selection of multiple rooms; extras that apply to all or only one room type; Blog/News - General Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:35:50 +0100 http://www.tribalogic.net/content/view/150/33/ Launch of Apartments Glasgow Rental Reserve have launched their Apartments Glasgow self catering website, utilising the Tribalogic Property Agent Website (http://www.tribalogic.net/platform/property-agency-website/) in formidable combination with Bookster Self Catering (http://www.booksterhq.com/). Blog/News - Client Developments Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:26:15 +0100 http://www.tribalogic.net/content/view/149/33/ Why faster response times matter We are constantly looking at ways of improving the performance of our platform allowing it to respond more quickly to users - whether it is writing faster database queries or introducing various server side caching layers. Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox is a fantastic usability newsletter and as he points out (http://www.useit.com/alertbox/response-times.html) speed does matter. Responsiveness matters for 2 reasons: Human limitations, especially in the areas of memory and attention (as further discussed in our seminar on The Human Mind and Usability). We simply don't perform as well if we have to wait... Blog/News - General Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:24:08 +0100 http://www.tribalogic.net/content/view/148/33/ Flexible listings (http://www.letinedinburgh.co.uk/) The Tribalogic Property Agent Website (/platform/property-agency-website/) includes our powerful and flexible directory. A good example of how this has been put to full use can be seen in the way that Rental Reserve have chosen to layout listings on their city breaks apartment websites. See them in action on www.letinedinburgh.co.uk (http://www.letinedinburgh.co.uk/). Or, list your property (http://managers.rentalreserve.co.uk/) on Rental Reserve. Blog/News - Software Updates Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:41:07 +0100 http://www.tribalogic.net/content/view/147/33/ New feature: image cropping Directory entry image cropping - no more squashed images! As part of the v2.79 update (http://support.tribalogic.net/entries/193791-software-update-v2-79) to the platform, we have met a long standing desire of our users and added the ability to crop images uploaded for the directory. Uploading an image for an entry is now a two stage process. Upload Crop This produces images of the perfect aspect ratio for the directory and eliminates distortion. Blog/News - Software Updates Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:18:10 +0100 http://www.tribalogic.net/content/view/145/33/ An iPhone friendlier console Improving the experience of our console on the small screen We have made some small changes to the console to make it easier to view on the Apple iPhone (http://www.apple.com/iphone/). While you our clients are out and about, it is now possible to keep an eye on bookings. Blog/News - General Fri, 07 May 2010 09:24:09 +0100 http://www.tribalogic.net/content/view/144/33/ Speeding our websites up for Google With the news that Google now take into account page speed (http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-in-web-search-ranking.html) in their ranking of web sites, we are trying to speed up our sites as much as possible. For example, where possible we are: turning on compression for serving text files; minifying our CSS/JavaScript/HTML; using deferred loading techniques in our JavaScript. We are getting pretty good results and our sites are really starting to fly (see letinedinburgh.co.uk (http://www.letinedinburgh.co.uk/) or visitmidlothian.org.uk (http://www.visitmidlothian.org.uk/)). We are using Google's own Page Speed Firefox/Firebug tool (http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/) as a guide to our progress, increasing one of our sites we looked at from 58/100 to 83/100... Blog/News - General Thu, 06 May 2010 09:34:15 +0100 http://www.tribalogic.net/content/view/141/33/ Software Update (v2.77) Console: recently visited drop down We have added a great new drop down menu that expands on the recently visited tabs to give console users access to the previous fifteen items they visited. The recently visited tabs have been a huge hit with our users and will be right there waiting for you the next time you log in, making it much easier to return to the tasks you were doing during your last session. Blog/News - Software Updates Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.tribalogic.net/content/view/140/33/ Software Update (v2.76) Highlights Console: Advanced Filtering When searching in "My Entries" and "My Bookings" Bookster Self Catering (http://www.booksterhq.com/) and Bookster ShowTime (http://showtime.booksterhq.com/) users can now filter their results in a more refined manner using the advanced filters. Console: Groups Those with access, can now: assign entries to groups update existing group details Console: Add Entry Improvements We have introduced a Syndicate setting that allows the syndicate manager to specify which Syndicates appear in the add booking form. Console: Assume user identity If you have the highest level of access in the console, you can now view exactly what any given user can view. We will be rolling this out... Blog/News - Software Updates Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:09:40 +0100 http://www.tribalogic.net/content/view/139/33/ Tribalogic and Haymarket continue to build on a successful relationship Tribalogic are delighted to announce the continued arrangement helping Haymarket (http://www.haymarket.com/) develop and grow Caravan Sitefinder (http://www.caravansitefinder.co.uk/), an online booking presence and related camping and caravanning websites. Blog/News - General Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:57:47 +0100 http://www.tribalogic.net/content/view/137/33/ Software Update (v2.73) Bookster ShowTime Two Month Widget Our ticket and event booking software, Bookster ShowTime (http://showtime.booksterhq.com/) now includes a two month wide widget for placing on your site. See the the two month widget in action on the Rosslyn Chapel (http://www.rosslynchapel.org.uk/p/online-booking-I906/) website. Bookster ShowTime is quick, easy and is letting us trial online booking without any fuss Simon Beattie, Interpretation Manager Sold Out! Theatre production company, Nonsenseroom (http://nonsenseroom.co.uk/) sold out their run of A Christmas Carol at Rosslyn Chapel over Christmas. Congratulations to all the cast and crew! Blog/News - Software Updates Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:24:26 +0100 http://www.tribalogic.net/content/view/135/33/ dt Client Profile - Gareth Thomas: Rental Reserve (http://www.rentalreserve.co.uk/) Gareth Thomas is the Marketing Development Director for Rental Reserve Rental Reserve operate marketing websites for self catering apartments and holiday homes across the UK allowing real time online bookings to be made by customers. We conducted a little question and answer session to get an insight into what makes Rental Reserve tick: You have been operating Rental Reserve for a couple of years now, how are you finding the self catering industry? There's a fantastic community out there. It's a little hidden and took a while to find, but we're working... Blog/News - Client Developments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:02:55 +0100 http://www.tribalogic.net/content/view/134/33/ Nonsenseroom tickets live with Bookster Show Time We are delighted to announce the online sale of Nonsense Room Productions Christmas show using Bookster Show Time once again. Following the highly successful use of Bookster Show Time to sell tickets through their own website for their Edinburgh Fringe shows, they have decided to use it again for their Christmas event. See nonsenseroom.co.uk (http://nonsenseroom.co.uk/wp/) for more details and to book your tickets today! Embedded on Visit Midlothian Visit Midlothian have also embedded the Bookster Show Time calendar (http://www.visitmidlothian.org.uk/component/option,com_events/Itemid,24/task,view_detail/agid,50/year,2009/month,12/day,7/catids,4%7C8%7C13/) on their site allowing visitors to book tickets to A Christmas Carol Blog/News - Client Developments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:09:50 +0100 http://www.tribalogic.net/content/view/132/33/ Explaining Directories, Syndicates and Websites I have posted a little explanation of some of the basic concepts in our platform on to our support forum. Hopefully this helps to explain some of general ideas around which our platform is based: Directories; Syndicates; Websites. Take a look on support.tribalogic.net (http://support.tribalogic.net/forums/6995/entries/70429) Blog/News - General Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:35:13 +0100 http://www.tribalogic.net/content/view/131/33/ Software Update (v2.68) We have updated the Tribalogic Platform to version 2.68. Here are some of the the major improvements we have pushed out in this release. Edit Dates On The Fly Allow surfers to adjust their dates from within a search Our property agency websites (/platform/property-agency-website/) can now be setup to give surfers the ability to change date ranges and party size while they are within their search results. No more visits back to the home page to alter dates! For examples of this in action, check out: Let In Edinburgh (http://www.letinedinburgh.co.uk/directory/properties/find/from_d/13/from_m/02/from_y/2010/party/2/to_d/20/to_m/02/to_y/2010) The Edinburgh Address (http://www.theedinburghaddress.com/directory/properties/find/from_d/31/from_m/10/from_y/2009/party/2/to_d/6/to_m/11/to_y/2009) Bookings: More Details Hold your... Blog/News - Software Updates Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.tribalogic.net/content/view/130/33/ Mandriva Linux Community Words Our head of technical team Colin Guthrie is an active contributor to the Mandriva (http://mandriva.com/) Linux distribution - he was asked about his development efforts and why he chooses to give his spare time to push forward free and open source software. A few of his answers... When did you start contributing to Mandriva Linux and why? I officially started contributing to Mandriva back in September 2006 although I had been doing various unofficial packages for a while. I had been a long time user (since back in about 2001-ish) and a fairly regular voice on the cooker... Blog/News - General Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:10:11 +0100 http://www.tribalogic.net/content/view/123/33/ Software Update (v2.66) Most of the changes in this release are bellow the hood improvements, which included Page Replacements - place different text elements on each Syndicate Zend Framework Update - As part of the v2.66 we have updated the underlying Zend Framework software that provide the backbone of The Tribalogic Platform - we are now using version 1.9.1. Bookster Pro - we are in the process of developing an advanced version of the Bookster Self Catering online booking service. For more information, see the entry on our support site (http://support.tribalogic.net/forums/6993/entries/56528). Blog/News - Software Updates Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:25:56 +0100 http://www.tribalogic.net/content/view/122/33/ Visit Midlothian Updated Visit Midlothian gets a visual overhaul from Digital Design Scotland Visit Midlothian has been on the Tribalogic Platform for a couple of years and was due for a little graphical and design restructure. (http://www.visitmidlothian.org.uk/)The Midlothian Tourism forum asked Digital Design Scotland to take a look at the Visit Midlothian site and give it a wee facelift and boy have they done that! The site uses the Triablogic Platform to allow (among other things): public browsing of attractions, accommodation restaurants in the midlothian area; public reviews and comments;... Blog/News - Client Developments Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:46:47 +0100 http://www.tribalogic.net/content/view/121/33/ Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute I stumbled upon this interesting article (http://www.useit.com/alertbox/participation_inequality.html) from Jakob Nielsen regarding user participation which explains that in general a tiny fraction of your user base will be the leaving reviews or posting comments. "... a tiny minority of users usually accounts for a disproportionately large amount of the content and other system activity." The article also points out how this tendency for an exceptionally small minority to engage can skew feedback when trying to garner useful information from your user base. In general, who is likely to be contributing reviews to your directory and participating in your... Blog/News - General Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:29:42 +0100