Google shagrim (ambassadors)

I was attending Google shagririm (ambassadors) program yesterday. We now officially adding Google advertisement products to our portfolio. As part of Shagririm initiative we will be offering introduction service integrated with complementary Google Adwords to our key customers. We are very happy to see how our internet vision corolates with Google`s, it makes us feel that somehow we got it right. As always we, in Comcord media hope that we will be able to deliver better internet experience to our customers and general Net population.

Comcord in the clouds...

We are happy to continue our partnership with GoGrid. Right now we provide our customers with first class servers but in the near future we are going to integrate our site and their API, allowing the customer to manage his servers more freely and very soon with Hebrew and Russian localization. We are also happy to announce that we will support additional payment methods such as Paypal, WebMoney, Yandex money, Walla pay and RBK money to our current offer of credit cards and bank transfer. We hope that it will help the consumer to expirience cloud computing, the future of server side.

CRM trouble, introduction

We have been growing for the last 6 month in a very healthy way, our customers list include more countries, projects became more versatile. All have been nice but we reached a critical phase in with simply writing tel numbers down is not good enough any more. So we are shopping for a new solution to manage customer`s contacts and projects. So far we had checked Sugar, SalesForce, FreeCRM and ZOHO, the results were disastrous. They are simply to complicated. First task was to simply import contacts list and divide them into some categories. It just took us forever to understand the logic betwen contact and numbers and tasks. We need a simples solution.

Comcord media and Apana cloud. Part I - data transfer.

We had opened a news server with Aptana cloud service. Server is configured with 256 MB RAM, 4GB space and unlimited data transfer. On the software side we have postfix, apache, php5 and MySQL. For the first test we had moved some files to test the speed of the data transfer and it was around 60 kbps making it comparable to ADSL lines. we were a bit disappointed since we are used to GoGrid with much faster transfer rates.

Starting upgrade of Blinds Aluminium site

Blinds Aluminum was one of Comcord`s first customers. Current site is built upon Joomla 1.0.x CMS. We want to upgrade the looks of it together with some functionality. Upgrade works will begin this weeks and we plan to release the new version within next 14 to 21 days.

new site released, Unison

We had finished development for Unison financial consulting company.
Their new site is accessible here:
http://unison.su/
site is developed using Joomla CMS 1.0.15 and table-less design techniques.

Joomla template upgrade tutorials

In continuation with a previous posts we would also like to post couple links we, in Comcord media found very useful for migration our 1.0.x templates to Joomla 1.5.x.
http://docs.joomla.org/Tutorial:Upgrading_a_Joomla!_1.0.x_template
http://joomlatp.com/joomla-1.5-tutorials/4-steps-convert-joomla-1.0-templates-to-1.5.html

function translation map for joomla versions

Since we in Comcord media are gradual moving from Joomla 1.0.x to 1.5.x we needed translation map for different internal Joomla functions. we found one here and it was very useful.