Written by Robin Morris
Tribalogic are delighted to announce the continued arrangement helping Haymarket develop and grow Caravan Sitefinder, an online booking presence and related camping and caravanning websites.
Written by Robin Morris
Our ticket and event booking software, Bookster ShowTime now includes a two month wide widget for placing on your site.
See the the two month widget in action on the Rosslyn Chapel website.
Bookster ShowTime is quick, easy and is letting us trial online booking without any fussSimon Beattie, Interpretation Manager
Theatre production company, Nonsenseroom sold out their run of "A Christmas Carol" at Rosslyn Chapel over Christmas.
Congratulations to all the cast and crew!
Written by Robin Morris
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:
There's a fantastic community out there. It's a little hidden and took a while to find, but we're working on giving the industry a voice. From small single property owner/manage set-ups to larger investment backed operations. Everyone has something to add to the discussion - making the industry a better place for everyone.
We're quite unique in the way we work with property managers. We engage with our clients to build long term relationships that work well for them and us. Because of our commission model, it's essential to us that we get as many quality bookings as possible. Which ensures we're on the same path as the people we work with.
We have the widest collection of quality properties with instant availability and price information. This creates a competitive environment where the guest can choose from the best quality and get a great deal. Seeing so many properties side by side makes it so much easier to book the right property, as does the instant online booking we provide.
As with our support for property managers, we're only ever an email or phone call away to give help and advice whenever needed.
That's a good question! Luckily we're spoilt for choice as we enter the next phase of the business. We already have a few plans in the pipeline for both national and international websites. We'll take the same ethos and ideas that we've developed whilst growing Let In Edinburgh to our next location, and we can't wait to see what awaits!
We've been working hard to improve the quality of properties on offer. The rewards for this work are really starting to come through now, both in terms of the feedback we get and our bottom line figures. It's actually really enjoyable to train clients on our software, especially when they start to see the results.
We carried out a lot of research before choosing which platform to use. As an internet-based company, our website (and the software behind it) are effectively the equivalent of bricks and mortar in a traditional shop.
Nothing even came close to what Tribalogic offer. I'm confident in saying we would not be anywhere close to our current position if it wasn't for the running start the software gave us.
The platform is so scalable that it's ready to grow when we are. Nothing is added to the software without thinking a few steps forward. Beyond the software though, the support of the team is what really makes working with Tribalogic the logical and enjoyable choice. To know your dealing with experts is priceless. To want to go back and work with them over and over is what really makes the difference for us.
Written by Robin Morris
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 for more details and to book your tickets today!
Visit Midlothian have also embedded the Bookster Show Time calendar on their site allowing visitors to book tickets to A Christmas Carol
Written by Robin Morris
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:
Take a look on support.tribalogic.net
Written by Robin Morris
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.
Allow surfers to adjust their dates from within a search
Our property agency websites 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:
Hold your booking information in Bookster
Bookings in Bookster Self Catering and Bookster Self Catering Pro now allow the storage of additional information related to your bookings.
This allows for use of Bookster / Bookster Pro as more of a management tool.
Add the following fields to your booking:
Look for the "management" link when viewing a booking in the console.
Get all booking info into your systems
As well as allowing more details to be stored with each booking, we have also added more columns to the bookings list Excel export.
The following columns are now included:
More payment gateway integrations
In what has been a extraordinary undertaking, we have completely rewritten how our payment gateway integration works in order to allow support of additional payment gateways within our platform.
We now support:
Adding additional payment gateway solutions will now be easier than it was previously.
update] - Improve the loading time of location selector in members consolebugfix] - Fix the featured entry click count from Joomla modulesbugfix] - Stop En Suite turning itself on when it should notbugfix] - Fix the add period link of the extra tab in IE8Written by Robin Morris
Our head of technical team Colin Guthrie is an active contributor to the Mandriva 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.
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 mailing list since around 2003. Originally I had been making packages for Compiz as I like pointless eye candy and Olivier Blin said I really should get myself a cluster account considering the amount I do!
Any specific reasons to choose open source software?
For me it's an ideology thing. I'm certainly no Stallman, but I do believe that everyone has the right to a Free computing platform...
How do you see Linux place both for end users and companies in coming years ?
I think it's an interesting place right now and, if I'm honest I'm not sure where it's going on the desktop. More and more services are moving to the "cloud" and I think that a high speed, fully connected world is the ultimate future but is a decade or so away. I think the future may be more light weight Linux installs (when everything is cloud based there is no need for Windows), but even for the short to medium term (read next two decades) desktop Linux will continue to grow in my opinion.
Check out the Q & A session in full at blog.mandriva.com.
Written by Robin Morris
Syndicate Specific Text
Place different text elements on each Syndicate.
For SEO flexibility publishing more than one Syndicate, we have introduced Page Replacements.
Example on Caravan Sitefinder:
We can include placements in a layout that can be altered by the administrator on a per Syndicate basis.
Keeping up to date
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.
More information on the update is available on the Zend Framework website.
We are in the process of developing an advanced version of the Bookster Self Catering online booking service.
Bookster Pro will be for agencies of self catering properties that are looking to get an edge over their competitors.
For more information, visit www.booksterhq.com/bookster-pro.html.
Written by Robin Morris
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.
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 Platformto allow (among other things):
Our Joomla! integration allows both Digital Design Scotland and The Midlothian Tourism Forum to log in and update the news stortes and events listings on the site.
Some nice additional touches are the integrated Twitter RSS feed, newsletter sign up, Flickr photo pool feed and Facebook page.
See:
Written by Robin Morris
I stumbled upon this interesting article 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 social website?
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