Silk Road Ecotours launches its new website!

The initial site, developed with eZ Publish, initially provides a number of photoblogs. The eZ Publish CMS was customised to make the image upload easier and include a watermark automatically. Silk Road Ecotours's mission is to offer to the responsible traveller, the best travel tips, stories, destinations and activities in the Central Asia area.
Visit the Silk Road Ecotours website.

The island-of-art website has been completely re-engineered with eZ Publish.

The site allows artists to promote and sell their artworks online easily by uploading images and text to their own dedicated section. The site uses the Paypal service for credit card payments.

Visit the island-of-art.com website.

The new Radlett Centre website is now live!

EAB is pleased to annouce the launch of the new Radlett Centre website. The Radlett Centre entertainment venue in Radlett, Hertfordshire is also a popular venue for private hire of the Theatre/Conference Hall and the smaller meeting rooms. The site, developed with the eZ Publish Content Management System (CMS) offers information about the venue and events.The eZ Publish CMS  allows the Radlett Centre staff to upload event details to the website on an ongoing basis.
Visit the Radlett Centre website.

John Truscott, the leading UK Church Consultant has relaunched his own website (www.john-truscott.co.uk) and created an online presence for UCAN.

UCAN, The UK Church Administrator Network website, an online community for Church administrators, provides membership management and interactive functionality like forums and user comments. This website is currently an integral part of the re-developed john-truscott.co.uk website and is based on eZ Publish.

At the very end of September eZ Systems released eZ Publish V4.4 ("Fuji"), the first of its kind to sport Enterprise and Community versions. We explore what this means to would-be eZ Publish buyers and what's new in the new release..

eZ Publish Enterprise Subscription
This version of eZ Publish is only available to clients who subscribe to the premium services offered by eZ Systems, the makers of eZ Publish. This subscription model suits companies who need direct support and bug fixes from eZ Systems. The service also includes maintenance and monitoring among other things, but it comes at a price: starting at around £6,000 going all the way to £26,000 per annum depending on the level which ranges from silver through to gold, platinum. A custom level is available. New versions of the Enterprise version will be issued twice a year.
eZ Publish Community Project
This is a version of eZ Publish which allows the 37,000 eZ Publish community members to contribute to the ongoing development of the kernel of the program. This will speed up development of eZ Publish and will enable developers to download new versions of the CMS more often, eZ Systems aims to have a new downloadable version every three weeks.
What's new in eZ Publish V4.4?
The newly released eZ Publish 4.4 includes, among other improvements,  the following enhancements:

• An online image editor - this permits to edit the features of the image itself, including things like resize, crop, add watermark and all the basic editing capabilities
• An improved administration user interface
• HTML5 support to handle Flash and videos in a seamless manner
• Finally... newsletter functionality via the adoption of the CJW newsletter extension

We look forward to work with the new version of eZ Publish, the SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) friendly, scalable, feature rich leading Open Source CMS!

Finally, we have been able to squeeze enough time in our busy timetable to re-develop our new website!

We are proud to have developed the new EAB website with eZ Publish: we literally use what we sell!! What kind of features this brings to us?
Well, look at the following:

• Client login allowing better sharing of information and provide a mechanism for logging wishlists, issues.
• A more interactive homepage where the latest news items are automatically displayed
• The ability to update the site from where ever, be it an iPhone or an Internet cafe...

EAB is pleased to announce the launch of the website for the Sofitel Hotel, Renmin Square, Xi'an, China.

Built to meet the elaborate standards of China's new platinum five-star hotel rating, the Sofitel Xian on Renmin Square is the ultimate accommodation facility in the ancient city of Xian.
The site, developed with eZ Publish offers information about the hotel in English and Chinese languages. Several image galleries show stunning photos of the hotel and various events.

Visit the Sofitel Hotel, Xi'an website.

Welcome to Belinda Naylor-Stables, EAB's Change Management Consultant!

Belinda's experience in the field of Change Management will be very valuable for EAB's clients as they plan their website projects. Belinda's business expertise and extensive experience in developing and delivering practical change management solutions are a welcome addition to EAB web development services.
Visit the EAB team page for more information about Belinda's profile.