Coyne Technology Systems

WHMCS is a client management, billing, and support solution and is widely used as the back end system to manage Web Hosting sites. WHMCS includes a built in knowledgebase system where the administrator can create articles to support clients in performing common topics. Since the knowledgebase is the first area of support for the users, It would be helpful to have a report on the knowledgebase articles to see the most used articles. This article walks through creating a custom report to show the most used articles in the knowledgebase. Continue Reading

We are pleased to announce that we have completed the redesign of the Fixin’ Chix Website a website for Do-It-Yourselfers with content from the original Fixie Chick, Brenna Hartmann. The site originally was written in a proprietary Content Management System (CMS) using Windows Active Server Pages (ASP). We re-hosted the content to the WordPress Blogging system. Although there are little visible changes to the end-user, using WordPress allows us to provide much richer information to the user such as: user friendly URLs, user comments, article lists, related posts, and much more! If you would like to check out the site, you can follow the link to the Fixin’ Chix Website

As you may be able to tell, we have redesigned the Coyne Technology Systems website. Our new site consists of a consistent theme throughout the site as well as a more structured layout of the information. We have added a workshop in the form of a eCommerce shopping system to allow purchasing our products as well as downloading free software and tools. Continue Reading

An XML sitemap file is essential to having search engines correctly find the files in your site. Maintaining a sitemap file can be almost as challenging as keeping your site up to date. In this article we describe a sitemap index file and how to logically layout your site to be more Search Engine Friendly for SEO. Continue Reading

Many times when developing websites we use Zen Cart eCommerce system with either a custom product type or one of the pre-defined product types in the generic installation (Music, Document, Free Shipping, etc) and the site is built entirely around that particular product type (i.e. we only sell music types on the music site, with no or very little document types). Having a way to change which type is selected by default in the admin area of Zen Cart when entering a new product would be handy since it is easy to overlook the dropdown and use the default ‘Product – General’ type. Continue Reading

We have worked to develop the Crystal Website Hosting and Development Site.  This site sells web hosting and development services.  We have integrated the main website to a back end billing system and performed database actions to dynamicaly request pricing, package details and other information from the billing system to be displayed in web pages outside the billing system.  See their homepage at http://www.crystal-hosting.net.

We have completed developing the basic website for Healthy Homes of Rochester. This site consists of a Web log (Blog) with topics related to discussions about living healthy, going green, and reducing your carbon footprint, as well as a e-commerce storefront for purchasing healthy and green products. If you like these topics or would like to see our quality developed website, visit them at http://www.healthyhomesofrochester.com.

We have begun providing website update services to the Fixin’ Chix website.  The Fixin’ Chix website hosts all kinds of informative articles on Do-It-Yourself home modifications.  Over the next several months will be adding targeted pictures of products to the articles in order to provide the users with visual references to the products that are discussed in the articles.  Stop by and visit the site at http://www.fixinchix.com.

We have completed developing the basic website of Home & Garden Experiences.  The author will be developing the content for the website in the near term to complete the site.  This site is a Web log (Blog) with topics related to discussions about the home and garden.  If you like these topics or would like to see our quality developed website, visit them at http://HomeAndGardenExperiences.com.

We are pleased to announce that Matrix Video Player (MVP) version 1.0 is released.  MVP is a video player that allows multiple videos to be opened at once.  All of the opened videos are arranged in a tiled manner to fill the main window and are re-sized to fit the main window.  There is also a full screen mode that will show the videos using the entire screen size.

All of the videos can be controlled simultaneously providing stop, play/pause, restart, fast forward, and rewind capabilities.  Also, all of the videos can be muted or un-muted simultaneously.

Videos can also be rearranged within the matrix by simply dragging and dropping the video to a new location.

Each individual video position can be controlled through a video seeker for each video which can be hidden or shown as needed.  In addition to simultaneous muting and un-muting, each file can individually be muted or un-muted.

The program supports drag and drop for opening files as well as multiple file opening in the Open File dialog.  The files that are opened can be saved to a collection file for quick re-opening at a later time.  Videos that are already opened can be “copied” so that two instances of the same video can be playing at the same time.

There are two versions of this software, the Lite version and the Full version.  The versions are the same in functionality except the Lite version supports only opening two videos at a time where the Full version is not limited.  The Lite version is available for free and the Full version is available for a small price.  For more details or to download the free version, see the Matrix Video Player product page.