Clever Technology Inc.

Meld Forums for the Mura CMS is now, finally, available for purchase at MeldForums.com.

For those who haven't had the pleasure, the Mura CMS is one of the friendliest, most approachable web site content management systems available.

MeldForums.com, the website, is up and running.

Meld Forums for Mura, the discussion forums plugin for the Mura CMS, is following very shortly (yes, this is a good news + "gotcha" sort of announcement, but at least we let you know before you got there!)

So forums ... a much, much requested plugin for the Mura CMS. As you might guess from the title, they will be arriving shortly.

Code named "Cormorant" (please don't ask why, as we'll have to make something up on the spot), our forums application will be a fully integrated Mura Plugin . That means permissions, groups, users and all other related functionality will be tied to core Mura services.

When we site down with a client for the first time, I always brace myself for the revelation that the website design they are dreaming of is based upon a montage of competitor's sites.  On the surface this appears to be an acceptable, even reasonable assumption to make.  After all, they are trying to convey a similar image, product and professional image as you, so it makes sense to base your competitive design upon what they are doing...

... or does it?

Originally, the "CT" blog was supposed to be all about helping demystify the world of website design and development, help company's with advice on how to build and maintain their website, and generally explore the business of making a website actually work for you (instead of just being work).

That's not quite how it turned out.

Browsing through the 'feature requests' forum on the Mura CMS website the other day, we came across a post where somebody requested "Tiny Urls in Mura".  Tiny Urls are basically abbreviated versions of a standard Url for a webpage.  For instance, instead of having http://www.clevertechnology.com/go/blog/tiny-urls-in-Mura-CMS, you could use http://www.clevertechnology.com/?t=txM.

We have been investing a significant portion of our resources lately into building applications.  People often ask to keep them updated on both what we are working on and any updates we have made to existing programs and/or Mura plugins.  It was pretty clear the most straight-forward way of doing this was Twitter.

Google Sitemaps are the single best way for ensuring your website is being properly and fully indexed by Google.  We've been playing with the Mura plugin architecture for quite a while now, and our first release is something that has already proven popular: automating Google Sitemap creation in Mura.

Sava is now Mura.  The Mura CMS, until recently named Sava, is now known as Mura. 

Why the repetition?  Well, to help rebuild the brand for an excellent and highly productive CMS, whose name has recently changed from Sava to, you guessed it: Mura.