Announcing Meld Solutions ... Open Source Plugins For Mura

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0600

Meld Solutions Inc. is a new company, formed in part by Clever Technology Inc., with the aim of creating a range of business-ready open source plugin applications for the Mura CMS.

Meld Forums for Mura ... Available Now!

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600

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.

Meld Forums for Mura ... the website

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

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!)

Google Sitemaps for Mura: the plugin

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0600

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.

coming soon: Discussion Forums for Mura

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0600

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.

design for your customers, not your competition

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0600

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?

getting the blog back on track

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0600

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.

tiny urls in Mura CMS

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0600

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.

google sitemaps in sava

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600

Google Sitemaps are a very effective tool in maximizing Google's indexing of your website, and should be part of your site's overall SEO plan. Even if your site is html compliant and otherwise SEO-friendly, they can be a handy tool for identifying problems and especially important if you have a lot of dated or non-priority content. They also help to ensure that pages not found in navigation menus will be indexed by Google.

Clever Technology now on Twitter

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0600

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.

Sava is now Mura

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0600

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.

don't just say okay

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600

So last month we got a call and subsequent RFP for developing a website, and a few paragraphs into reading the document a deep chill went down my back. The project was content-heavy, had a very specific need for internal management and future growth, and needed to display sections of their content in a very specific but easily-navigated manner. The problem with this was that they wanted all of their gorgeous, user-enabling content to live within an all-Flash website.

leave the technobabble at the door

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600

I've personally been in the web game for nearly 15 years, and after all that time I'm admittedly still surprised how often new clients view their website projects with such trepidation ... or rather, that they dread the prospect of having to sit down and "talk web".

fabulous Sava

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600

I've waited a long time for Sava. That isn't to say I was looking for Sava in particular, but rather for a stable, user- and development-friendly content management system for the Adobe ColdFusion environment. We do most of our website development in CF, and until Sava haven't had found what we would call the ideal CMS.

putting a voice to the face

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600

I fought the idea of a 'professional blog' for a long time. Dangerous, I thought. How can I be honest, look honest, feel honest? We are, after all a business, and sometimes it's hard to fight the need to market yourself and your work. The irony, of course, is that I recommend them to a lot of our clients.