New Media Development News

TinyMCE 3.0.6.2 rolled out to New Media CMS

2008-04-08T14:54:19Z

The latest release of TinyMCE has been rolled out into the New Media CMS and is available to all clients as of today. TinyMCE 3.0.6.2 introduces many enhancements including full keyboard navigation of the interface, a reduced memory footprint in the browser together with many bug fixes and stability improvements delivering a fast and reliable platform with which users of the New Media CMS can control every aspect of their sites content.

For more information about how the New Media CMS can deliver full control over site content in an easy use interface, please contact us today.

New Media introduces "CSS compiler"

2008-04-08T14:44:53Z

The New Media "CSS Compiler" is a new feature of the New Media CMS that improves the the delivery of New Media CMS websites and increases their responsiveness by reducing the number of network requests to download the constituent files that go to make up a web page.

In todays web design world, Cascading Stylesheets and semantic (X)HTML markup are used in conjunction to provide the look and the content of the website in two distinct parts and as designs increase in complexity, so to does the number of stylesheets that are required to achieve the sites look and feel.

Increasing the number of stylesheets that a site requires increases the load on the server and reduces the responsiveness of the site for visitors. The "CSS Compiler" is a direct response to this problem and works by compiling all of the sites stylesheets into one file, thereby reducing the number of file requests for stylesheets down to one. According to an Exceptional Performance article published by Yahoo!, reducing the number of file requests for a page is one of the top 10 ways of improving site performance.

In our tests of "CSS Compiler", the performance increases have been found to be noticable by site visitors and response times have been shown to improve by up to 40% for any given page.

For more information about how a New Media CMS driven website can deliver your content more quickly, please contact us today.

New Media release CFX_IMAP4 2.0.20

2008-04-08T14:19:51Z

Today sees the release of an update to the CFX_IMAP4 suite of tags. Since its release in 2003, it has provided many users with the ability to connect their ColdFusion applications to mail servers using the IMAP protocol and programatically manage their entire mailbox.

IntelliURL gets a powerful new feature

2008-03-20T17:02:50Z

Providing greater search engine and user friendly features through the New Media CMS is key to keeping our clients sites at the top of the search engine rankings and the forefront of technology and the latest features of IntelliURL show our commitment to this ethos perfectly.

IntelliURL has always been a useful tool for offline marketing purposes as it allows clients to create short and memorable URLs to resources within the site that may require complex and long URLs in normal use and its ability to spell check and correct any URLs that may have been mis-typed has helped to improve the user experience for site visitors when visiting the site from an offline starting point.

Today, IntelliURL improves on this established technology by incorporating full URL rewriting capabilities into its feature set.

Traditionally, URL rewriting has required a large amount of configuration and maintenance by a web-server administrator using specialist modules and plug-ins to allow URL rewriting to take place. The New Media CMS now opens up the capabilities and advantages of URL rewriting to any of its users by providing a simple and effective method of creating aliases for any pages or resources within the site.

For more information about how a New Media CMS powered site can help you and your users make the most of the Internet, please contact us today.

Talent management network gets a new skin

2008-03-20T16:44:51Z

The Ning powered Talent Management Network launched by Hire Strategies this week is sporting a look that has been designed and developed by New Media.

The aim of the design was to maintain brand consistency across the Hire strategies sites whilst fitting in with the layout and design restrictions placed on the site by Ning.

When the site was launched, Peter Gold of Hire strategies said "New Media have yet again done a fantastic job in taking a new technology platform and turning it into a workable business application."

The Talent Management Network was also integrated with the Hire Strategies main site and the Hire Strategies blog using RSS feeds from both sites to pull all of the user content together and tightly link the sites together.

For more information about how New Media can help to leverage 3rd party technologies and integrate them with your site to provide a seamless and rich user experience, please contact us today.

New Media mail servers get anti-virus filters

2008-03-11T01:13:32Z

New Media Development has rolled out anti-virus filters on their e-mail servers to help combat the high levels of e-mail borne viruses that are prevalent on the Internet today.

The anti-virus filters examine all e-mails passing through the mail server and tag any e-mails found to be infected with a virus as well as removing the payload before final delivery.

For more information about how New Media Development can help to secure your e-mail, please contact us today.

New Media goes to CFUnited Europe

2008-03-10T15:50:33Z

On the 12th and 13th of March, New Media Development will be attending the CFUnited Europe conference in Hammersmith, London. The conference covers many topics including building "Rich Internet Applications", server reliability and maintenance and includes talks by usability experts from America and Europe.

In preparation for CFUnited, Paul has been busy for the last few weeks preparing to interview some of the speakers at the conference and you can find his first interview with Mark Drew on the Fusion Authority website. The interview with Mark covers both subjects of CFEclipse and configuring the ColdSpring framework that he will be talking about at the CFUnited Europe conference.

Sender Policy Framework rules tightened

2008-03-10T15:40:31Z

In response to the increase in SPAM that purports to originate from domains hosted by New Media Development, we have tightened the specifications of the Sender Policy Framework rules that designate genuine mail servers that can send mail on behalf of the domains we host.

The effect of this is two-fold. Any e-mails that are received by our mail servers that claim to be from domains we host will now fail in accordance with the Sender Policy Framework rules our mail servers implement. Secondly, any third party mail servers will have a definitive list of approved mail servers that are able to send mail on behalf of our clients and the domains we host.

For more information about Sender Policy Framework (SPF), visit the OpenSPF website or for more information about how New Media Development deploy SPF for our clients, please contact us.

New Media launch Universal Search

2008-02-26T22:10:57Z

Adding to the functionality of the New Media CMS, we are proud to announce the introduction of a new search feature we are calling "Universal Search". This new module brings together all of the existing and any future search functions within the New Media CMS allowing site visitors to search through pages, products, jobs and more through one simple search request.

Using specialist search technology and an innovative "blending" method, the search results from the Universal Search module are returned in order of their relevancy, regardless of the source of the individual search results and increases the usability of the sites that use it by allowing the site to provide a single unified search page.

New features for the New Media CMS

2008-02-19T01:21:42Z

Several new features were today introduced into the New Media CMS in a simultaneous rollout across all of the New Media CMS powered web sites.

Focusing on extending the functionality of the New Media CMS, some existing features have been upgraded whilst some features are completely new with the main new features including:

Changes to the form manager which allow users to create forms that can post to any location on the Internet.
Upgrade of the WYSIWYG editor, TinyMCE to version 3.0.
Improvements to the POD manager to allow for "tabbed pods" of content.
A full "Internet style" search engine facility has been built into the shop manager allowing for extensive keyword search capabilities.
The user session manager has been extended to allow for customer service representatives to identify and "grab" the contents of a customers shopping basket.

Several other aspects of the New Media CMS have been updated to provide an improved user experience through usability revisions and performance enhancements which together make a New Media CMS powered site both fast and friendly for visitors.

To find out more about the New Media CMS and how it can help you deliver an excellent customer experience, please contact us today.