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New Website: Kristin Sells Naples
Posted on August 9, 2011, under Webmaster.
Naples Webmasters is pleased to announce the launch of a new naples real estate website. The website is built using the latest blogging technology and integrates multiple listing search for real etsate. The website also includes the ability to automatically display the real estate agents own listings on a dedicated webpage.
The real estate search includes the ability to query real estate listings based on specific criterea like city, community, price range and property type.
Kristin continues to be a results driven sales and marketing professional with over 15 years experience in the luxury Resort, Club and Real Estate industries. She is a dynamic professional with outstanding customer partnership skills and a passion for success. Contact Kristin today to assist you with your Naples real estate needs.
New Website: Premiere Senior Travel Companion
Naples Webmasters has done it again. Here is another clean web design using the latest in content management technology. Premiere Senior Travel Companion Inc. is an elderly travel companionship company, which is available to assist seniors who are in need of traveling escort. Premiere Senior Travel Companion Inc. works hard to ensure that traveling is comfortable and enjoyable.
New Website: Aqua Construction
Naples Webmasters has just completed development of a new website for AQUA Construction. AQUA Construction is the Florida Division of Bushnell Companies, which is a full service construction company that has been in business for 20 years. We have built more than 250,000 sq ft of commercial buildings and built over 100 custom homes.
The new website was built with the lastest in blog software technology, and has integrated features like photo gallery, google maps, and user friendly back-end interface.
Visit AQUA Construction: http://www.aquaconstruction.net
WordPress 3.2 Editor – Distraction free writing
When I first used the new WordPress 3.2 I was struck by the contrast between the new and previous version user interface design. WordPress developers have created a stunningly faster and lighter version of the already innovative WordPress blogging software.
Looking back just a few years, I now see a huge evolutional leap forward with the latest WordPress release. Drupal was my first expereince with blogging software. After using drupal for some months I got fed up with the backwards nature of the user interface. Drupal seemed very well thoughtout from a programer php/mysql database point of view, but from the end users point of view it was very confusing and overly complicated.
After Drupal. I found Joomla. Joomla enabled users with very limited expereince to build elaborate websites. With the evolution of joomla users got better integrated features and more practical extention development.
Like Drupal, Joomla seemed overly complicated sometimes when it came to content. Content could only be organized into section/categories. While section/categories seemed logical as a API delopment point of view it failed to provide the simple method of dealing with taxonomy.
My first expereince with WordPress was the 1.0 version. I liked the simplicity of the user interface, and the fact that it could be extended rather easily. I had grown tired of the maintenance of over 100 Joomla Websites. This is why I was looking at WordPress. The Joomla CMS was great for elaborate websites, but it proved to large and unwieldly to manage. Add to that a complicated upgrade process, and having more than a hundred Joomla sites became a nightmare to keep secure.
WordPress offered onclick upgrades, and easy organization of content. Creating content was also simplified with a great built-in WYSIWYG. More importantly WordPress was proving to be a formidable tool for SEO experts. WordPress blogs yeilded more traffic and better ranking for competitive keywords.
- Faster release cycle than 3.1 — More focused release.
- The theme is “faster, lighter.” Dropped support for outdated technologies.
- List Tables API improvements – API for third party use and more flexibility.
- List Table XHR loading — To be investigated only after List Table API has stabilized.
- PHP 5.2 (5.2.4, specifically) to be required. Drop compat. But don’t go adding a bunch of PHP5 stuff.
- MySQL 5 to be required.
- Distraction Free Writing (My Favourite Concept!!!). This is the headline “ooh, shiny” user feature. Replaced old fullscreen interface implementation with something more beautiful, more useful (in terms of line-length and font size), and simpler (only limited RTE functionality). Developers looked at WriteRoom, OmmWriter and others for inspiration. Koop is investigating this, and may crank out a quick plugin to jump-start development efforts
- Upgrade improvements. Changed-files-only upgrades can be done with zero changes to core. For the first effort, let’s just do updates to the latest point-point from within the same major version. So, 3.2 to 3.2.2 and 3.2.1 to 3.2.2. Optionally consider scanning for changed core files and offering them a full upgrade to overwrite those changed files. Skip the wp-contents directory when upgrading (no more upgrading the default theme or bundled plugins).
- Speed improvements. There are a bunch of little things the devs did do to make WordPress load or at least “feel” faster. They calso made the dashboard faster by not doing async requests for panes if the cache is hot. Finally the devs made some FTP improvements that should make upgrades a lot faster for people using a certain FTP server.
Google+, the search giant’s answer to Facebook
Google is looking to jump into the social networking game and compete directly with Facebook. This would be Google’s 3rd try. The previous attempts included the Google Wave, a communication and online collaboration platform rolled into one package, and Google Buzz, a twitter like service that allowed sharing of videos, photos, and updates.
Google+ focuses on clean interface, and unique social interactions and connections. The simple and elegant interface was created by a former Apple designer. Google+ builds off the Google service called Profiles. Google Proilces is similar to a Facebook profile. Google+ adds in all of the social features like friending, posting, and liking that you find on Facebook with the ability to follow people like you can on Twitter.
Circles is the Google+ way of creating groups of friends that you can selectively share content with and control how they can connect back to you. Hangouts is a quick way to set up a video conference with up to 10 people while Sparks is an integration of Google’s email alerts honed down to its essence: letting you know about stuff you are interested in.
Real Life Social Network v2
Ex-Google UX (User Expereince) director Paul Adams has created a slideshow called: “The Real Life Social Network,” which highlights the perils of having one default group for sharing and emphasized that the ideal social networking service would be designed for multiple groups. The slideshow illustrated the flaws in Facebook’s lump sum friend model and called for a social network where users could set sharing levels to correspond to the separate relationship groups that people tend to have.
New Website: Jane Vazquez Real Estate
Utilizing the latest in blogging technology, Naples Webmasters launches real estate agent website for Jane Vazquez. The website incorporates custom features to organize and display featured listings, and local community information.
The website also includes a custom weather widget that displays the temperature and wind speed in Naples, Florida.
EBay acquires Magento Ecommerce Solution
Magento is an open source ecommerce web application launched on March 31, 2008. It was created by Varien, using various open source technologies including Zend framework and PHP. Varien is now Magento Inc. with 260+ employees.
Magento is a feature-rich eCommerce platform built on open-source technology that provides online merchants with unprecedented flexibility and control over the look, content and functionality of their eCommerce store. Magento’s intuitive administration interface features powerful marketing, search engine optimization and catalog-management tools to give merchants the power to create sites that are tailored to their unique business needs. Designed to be completely scalable and backed by Varien’s support network, Magento offers companies the ultimate eCommerce solution.
Magento Enterprise Edition is a paid version of Magento intended for larger ecomerce websites.
In February of 2011, Ebay announced it had made an investment in Magento and acquired 49% ownership. Now Ebay is purchasing the remain ownership of Magento.
By purchasing Magento, eBay is creating what it calls X.Commerce, an open platform that can offer a wide array of end-to-end services to merchants, providing everything from local inventory data and discounts to historical information on pricing, transactions and browsing. It then offers tools for payment and helps close the loop on transactions so retailers know how it all came together. EBay, PayPal and GSI, a digital marketing and e-commerce company that eBay is in the process of buying, would provide some of the basic building blocks for the platform. But X.Commerce would also incorporate other eBay assets and enlist the help of developers who could build on the operating system.
New Website: Accessibility at Home
Naples Webmasters is pleased to announce the launch of a new website for Home Again Mobility. Accessibility At Home’s products and services range from solutions for seating and positioning in your manual or power wheelchair, to installing bath safety grab bars, Stair lifts, Platform Lifts and Elevators, Automotive Lifts, Automotive Turnout Seats.
Home Again Mobility is the continuation of Headley Home Care, a home care provider for 33 years with seven locations in Wisconsin. The company was selected as one of the top 100 durable medical companies by Home Care Magazine for 10 consecutive years. Thier president served on the National Board of Directors and, as co-chairman of the ethics committee, developed the industry’s first code of Ethics.
Future of Flash
Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements and games. More recently, it has been positioned as a tool for “Rich Internet Applications” (“RIAs”).
Most owner’s of Apple’s iPad and iPhone have noticed their desvices do not support Adobe’s Flash. Apple’s iPad and iPhone lines are expected to remain Flash-free for the foreseeable future. According to the company’s latest figures from the 2011 Mobile World Congress, more than 20 million smartphones have shipped with (or been upgraded to) its Flash Player 10.1 software. Adobe expects its total mobile Flash adoption to hit 132 million units worldwide by the end of 2011, and the company estimates that 50 tablets will feature Flash pre-installed (or available for download) by the end of the year as well. Adobe maintains that they have a 99% adoption rate among desktop computers.