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PMDStyles received an urgent, time sensitive request this past week-end for a very special template. It was a custom development of a template with unique style and layout. This layout has never been attempted much less fully developed with phpMyDirectory till now. Well, we took the “bull by the horns” so to speak and just finished this template for this client and we are very proud to be a part of this venture. The idea behind this development is to create a layout much more simpler and very user friendly. So this whole project is inspired from Google.

An Exceptional Template Project - LinkAdsUK

An Exceptional Template Project - LinkAdsUK

This template is really nothing but a simple column layout but one of the challenging and demanding jobs was with the structure. It is well known that in phpMyDirectory, once the number of columns is decided in the template layout, it is usually not possible to reduce the number of columns. Although the layout is 2 columns we have successfully reduced the number of columns for some pages, such as the front page, about us page, faq pages etc. The noticeable thing is that technically these pages are still a two column layout by structure (template) but working as a single column.

Second challenging and demanding job was with the header. For this development we needed to develop a custom header in some of the pages. With our brain storming and team work the goal was obtained. We defined 2 headers and created a function which implemented this. In some pages the function calls a default header and in other pages the function checks for a custom header. In that way it is possible to create a directory template to use 2 totally different styles as one template.

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Thursday, 02 August 2007

New Template EDGE Soon

With development of the Connaissance Template Series behind us we are back again on our routine job and presenting you a new template. We plan on presenting it to you sometime next week. Yes, it will be a regular template release with some first few free giveaways then for sale in our store only. At this time we are not going to request for any member to test our templates as we do not want this Series to go the way of the Connaissance Template and also sell to a private party before release date. Although we might select a couple of testers with the express condition that this will not be sold privately. We want this new template to be available in our store for people to buy and enjoy it.

We are proud to introduce "Edge". Edge can misguide you as it has many definitions, one being sharp corners. Surprise! This template has no sharp edges but is on the "Cutting Edge". You might call it anti-edge or edge-less but we use term edge in very specific meaning, "Cutting Edge". Edge is the most important part of this design and you will learn why we called this template "Edge” in next few minutes.

New Template EDGE Demo

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Sunday, 29 July 2007

Important Announcement about Connaissance

Important Announcement about the Connaissance Template Series

Connaissance - PRE-RELEASE SOLD OUT!

As you know, PMDStyles had been hard at work on this Series for over a month.

We worked very hard on a new concept of designs which enables a complete portal solution for your business directory. The new concept will boost your business and put you a step ahead of your competitors. The layout is highly SEO friendly and using many “white hat” SEO Techniques. With approximately 30% of traffic driven by Google only (according to research), we realize how important ‘positive SEO’ is for a business. Top position on Google organic SERP ensure you top position on most of the real time search engines. Although the majority of SEO experts believe that a professional and eye catching design is not necessary for a good SEO website, as search engine spiders cannot see/read any graphical interface, we believe that a even balance in both SEO and design can drive business to your website more aggressively than either a strong SEO / week Design or week SEO / strong Design. Ultimately we are dealing with human begins and they are the only source of your income. They all have eyes and they can feel an impact, although first impression is usually the last impression. They don’t care how the information got to the Internet, they are concerned with what it says, does and how user friendly it is. With both SEO and Design in mind we were trying to make a good balance among SEO and design. Although we might not be able to achieve a perfect solution, we have reached the critical point and believe that we have gone further than anyone has toward a perfect balance.

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Saturday, 28 July 2007

New Design Concept Coming Up

Connaissance

Now we are here again to discuss a totally new design concept for a regular template. Today, we are going to announce the concept and story behind new design "Connaissance". Its pretty simplified layout, clean, elegant aesthetic, straight-forward structure and what less would you expect from us than beautiful, completely SEO friendly layout using increasingly-popular XHTML and CSS combination to create flawless design.

Off topic, A little over a month ago, just when we started to design phpMyDirectory templates, Robert (Lead developer, PMDStyles) asked me (Jeff, SEO and Support, PMDStyles) a few questions about what we’ve been thinking and planning to doing with PMDStyles after few months. Are we only designing templates for phpMyDirectory. Well Robert had very good point. certainly we do like designing but we are trying to narrow down the gap between improvement and perfection. We are improving the look, feel and overall structure from beginning. We have talked about customized solution for a long time, but it has never actually happened. We either didn't have the interest, budget, time or resources. But this time we took a small step towards big goal.

Connaissance Demo

Keep reading inside. (UPDATED // Looking for template tester, more info inside.)

Thursday, 19 July 2007

phpMyDirectory v11.03.00 Released

phpMyDirectory.com just released a new version of phpMyDirectory which is again a bug fix release.

Maintenance/Bug Fix Release

phpMyDirectory v11.03.00 Released

This is a maintenance release in order to make version 11.3.00 more stable before the next major release.

- Fixed missing loc_text index on pmd_listings table for new installations
- Fixed searching syntax bugs
- Fixed importing bugs
- Fixed banner click counting bug
- Fixed copyright removal bug
- Importer now creates a short description out of the long description when upgrading from 10.4.6 to 11.xx.xx
- Product number limit now enforced on user adding products
- Edit categories/locations HTML editor bug fixed

for more information please check phpMyDirectory.com

We have updated all our templates to work on phpMyDirectory v11.03.00. Although templates will work on earlier versions of phpMyDirectory.

Thursday, 12 July 2007

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