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Joomla! 2.5 Released with Extra Features and Easy Updates

Written by Administrator Wednesday, 25 January 2012 00:00

Joomla 2.5 was released yesterday with a host of great new features—like core captcha, multi-database support, the ability to link new menus with modules, a new notification system and many more.

Joomla, one of the world’s most popular open source content management systems (CMS) is used for everything from websites to blogs to Intranets. Along with new features such as advanced search and automatic notification of Joomla core and extension updates, the Joomla CMS for the first time includes multi-database support with the addition of Microsoft SQL Server. Previous versions of Joomla were compatible exclusively with MySQL databases.

Other key features in Joomla 2.5 includes:

Automatic notification when a Joomla or extension update is available. When logged into the control panel, site administrators will instantly have access to new notification buttons that allows them to see and act on the latest updates. In addition to updates for the Joomla CMS, a second button offers third party extension notification updates.

A better natural language search engine to the Joomla core. Complete with auto-completion and stemming (for example if you type “running” in a search field you also see run), it is faster and more versatile than the standard search.

Complete details about all the new features in Joomla! 2.5 are provided at the following URL:

http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/1533-new-features-in-joomla-25.html

• New Search Function
• Ability to Support Other Databases
• Joomla Update Notification
• Database Version Fix Button
• CAPTCHA in Core
• Linking New Menus with a Module
• Use the Images and URL Fields to Create Simple Standardized Layouts
• Choose whether Administrator to Get Email When New Users Register
• Menu Item Note
• Custom Text Filters
• Greater Flexibility Filtering by Category in Article Manager
• Manager for Language Overrides
• User Notes
• Flexible Newsfeed Order
• Image Option for the Offline Page
• Option to Have a Site Come Up Offline After Installation
• Better Performance in Menu Item Edit page
• Status Display in Backend Enhanced
• Filter the Frontend Who's Online by User Group
• Check for Native ZIP Support During the Installation
• Syndicate Text Label More Flexible
• Alternate meta tags for multi-lingual sites
• Menu Items for different languages can have same alias in Multi-lingual
• Improving SEO: New system plugin: languagecode
• Debug Plugin Gets Formatting
• A True Autoloader for the CMS

Shellfishtrader.com - An Online Marketplace For European Seafood

Written by Patrick Walsh Thursday, 10 November 2011 11:05

Shellfishtrader was established by shellfish farmers in Europe. Searching for buyers, for their shellfish, they found that there was no website where they could advertise and sell their products.

They set up Shellfishtrader as a website that would allow shellfish producers to buy and sell their products and also to get the latest news and discuss the latest developments in the industry.

Services Provided by Nuadesign

• eBusiness Strategy Consulting
• eCommerce Development
• Content Management System
• Web Design & Development
• Content Management
• Google Apps

Buy, sell seafood and connect with industry players on Shellfishtrader.com

eircom Spiders Award Shortlist For Our Client Crossmolina.ie

Written by Patrick Walsh Tuesday, 01 November 2011 00:00

The eircom Spiders Awards will be held on 10th November 2011 at The Convention Centre Dublin. View the 2011 Shortlist.

Crossmolina.ie has been shortlisted in the Community (People's choice) category.

"The eircom Spiders 2011 Community Award, sponsored by Pressieport, is looking for your favourite online community website which has maintained your interest, enhanced your knowledge, opened up new communication avenues and had the biggest impact on your life. The winner will be chosen from the shortlist below by public vote."

Shortlist

• Boards.ie
• CorkcityFc
• Crossmolina
• Freetradeireland.ie
• Irelandsweather.com
• Irish Ecomony
• Lookwest
• Mystreet
• Political World
• Runireland

New Web Site For Irish Centre For High End Computing - GPU Services

Written by Patrick Walsh Friday, 16 September 2011 10:38

Nuadesign collaborated closely with Galway based Proviz Design & Visualization to develop a web site for ICHEC's GPU Computing services.

GPU Computing: Low-cost commodity parallel computing processors now enable high-performance and cost-effective software for a range of business applications.

The impact of GPGPU (General Purpose Graphics Processing Units) technology spans all aspects of computation from the smallest cellphones to the largest supercomputers in the world.

Services Provided

• Web Development
• Content Management System

Visit the GPU Computing web site at http://gpgpu.ichec.ie

Crossmolina Community Web Site Gets Social

Written by Patrick Walsh Friday, 08 July 2011 09:49

We were hired by the Crossmolina Community Development Group to revamp their community web site.

The goal for the project was to make it easier for users of Crossmolina.ie to keep up to date with what's going on in the community and stay connected with people in the community - at home or abroad.

The new web site makes it easier for visitors to access the latest local news, photographs, videos and event information. It also makes it easy to connect with other members of the online community using Facebook, Twitter and the other social media channels which have been seamlessly integrated in to the web site.

Features include:

• Interactive Town Map [http://www.crossmolina.ie/visitor-information/map]
• Content aggregation from multiple Social Media channels [http://www.crossmolina.ie/festival]
• Flexible event management system [http://www.crossmolina.ie/events]
• Self-Service Local Directory Listings [http://www.crossmolina.ie/directory/clubs-and-societies/moffatt-school-of-irish-dancing]

Visit the Crossmolina Community web site and see what's going on for yourself.

Foreverremembered.ie - Innovative eCommerce Website

Written by Patrick Walsh Monday, 27 June 2011 13:12

Visit Foreverremembered.ie.

Google's Panda Update Explained

Written by Patrick Walsh Monday, 27 June 2011 09:37

In this video Rand Fishkin from SEOmoz explains in simple terms how Google's Panda Update has changed SEO Best Practices.

eBay Agrees to Acquire Magento

Written by Patrick Walsh Wednesday, 08 June 2011 10:48

After first investing in Magento over the last twelve months, eBay has acquired the company. In combination with a number of other recent e-commerce acquisitions, eBay will use Magento to create an e-commerce platform called X.Commerce.

A key element of eBay's strategy is to "build an open global commerce operating system that leverages the worldwide developer community and serves merchants of every size."

"With this acquisition, eBay is placing Magento at the core of their global X.commerce platform."

"From an operational standpoint, very little will change."

(Roy Rubin, Co-founder and CEO of Magento)

According to eBay, X.Commerce is eBay's newly created integrated open commerce platform group. "It is focused on leveraging the company’s assets and partner technologies to build a strong, robust developer community as a resource for merchants and retailers of all sizes."

Maxwellsrestaurant.ie Gets A Web Site Upgrade

Written by Patrick Walsh Wednesday, 27 April 2011 16:00

Maxwell's is Galway's oldest and longest serving restaurant. Built in 1866 it was originally a Whiskey, Fine Wine and Tobacco Importers as well as a Restaurant and owes its name to the original proprietors John F McNamara and his wife Elizabeth Maxwell.

Generations later its still a family run Restaurant now owned by the O' Meara Family. Maxwell's is located in the heart of Galway's historic City Centre, adjacent to Eyre Square on the corner of Williamsgate and Eglinton Streets.

Visit Maxwell's Restaurant.

ExerciseEngineering.com - New NUIG Course Web Site Launched

Written by Patrick Walsh Friday, 15 April 2011 15:13

Nuadesign worked closely with Galway based design company Proviz to develop a new on-line presence for ExerciseEngineering.com - a new NUIG Course.

The NUI Galway BE/MEngSc Sports & Exercise Engineering programme is a professional Engineering programme whose graduates will design systems for monitoring, performing and improving sport and exercise performance.

Visit the Sports & Exercise Engineering web site for more information.