Rogue lauch new app for Facebook

View your Facebook Albums with Image Flip - a cover flow style application for quickly navigating through your albums and photos.

You can also view friends photo albums using Image Flip if they have subscribed to this service.

Click here to add Image Flip to your Facebook profile

Slideshow Edit Pro

A Major Core3 Upgrade has just been launched and allows site adnimistrators to create a totally new kind of image gallery to complement their image flip, transitions and picture pop galleries within their Core3 system.

The slide show system is a fully featured still-image video editor, allowing users to animate their images over a 30 second clip to an audio track.

The features include:

• 3 Caption Layers with customised text allowing for size, alignment, opacity and colour as well as animatable atributes: x/y position, rotation and scale.
  
  
• 10 Image Layers with master opacity and swap-image as well as animatable atributes: x/y position, rotation and scale.
  
  
• Upload and set a 30 second mp3 audio track as background music to your clip with the new audio upload Core3 upgrade*
  
  
• Layer Controls: adjust start point, fade in duration, clip duration and fade out duration.
  
  
• Overlay Layers using fade in/out and opacity controls to create animated image montages.
  
  
• Use within a Core3 gallery or select the share option which generate standalone HTML embedding code to place your Slideshow Edit Pro galleres within different areas of your site or on other peoples websites.
  
  

*Audio upload system also comes with a code generator for use as standalone mp3 audio player within your html/wysiwyg content pages.

Online business and advertising set to soar

The online business world and online advertising is well an truly on the launch pad now and all set to really take off in a big way.

You may have thought that it was already flying in a big way, but lets consider a couple of recent announcements from statistical companies and analysts.

Today BBC news announced that the The Office for National Statistics said that two-thirds of UK homes were now online, which is almost 16.5 million households, an increase of 1.2 million since 2007.

According to all the analysts online advertising spend is all set to overtake that of television next year. There is also a lot of chatter about how print sales are falling and how many of the big companies are doing more with web based campaigns and pay per click advertising and not going for the more traditional large spend campaigns that they were.

It certainly appears that the credit crunch is going to be good for the web and online businesses and our advice is that right now you should be looking very closely at what you are currently doing with your web site and what should be done to bring it up to scratch. Whilst the credit crunch is good news for your online offering don't get complacent, it won't take long for lots of new e-commerce and promotional sites to spring up as the credit crunch starts to put the squeeze on bricks and mortar only firms.

If you wish to know more or would like to discuss the issues raised in this blog please feel free to contact us.

CN Radio Group, Core3 sites launched

CN Radio Group, a part of the national CN Media Group approached Rogue Interactive to help develop a fully content managed solution for their online presence.

CN Radio Group currently have 9 individual radio stations across the UK and Ireland.

We recommended our Core3 CMS for the job, as it already had 75% of the tools/ functions required as well as being able to manage a multi-site environment allowing all of the station website to share content areas if they wish to.

On top of the comprehensive tool set that came installed with Core3, we have developed bespoke tools for their Core3 CMS which include:

• Presenters profiles and blogging system

• Station Show Scheduler

• Integration into 3rd party news systems

• Integrating into RCS system for individual playing now function.

• Promotions and Competition system

• Online payment system

• Business Directory System

• Voucher System

Rogue re-branding with Core3

Rogue Interactive has given itself a complete design overhaul!

We have refreshed the logo, colour scheme and design... deciding to practice what we preach by re-building our website completely within our Core3 CMS; utilising the tools and functions available within Core3 to create HTML pages, galleries, news categories and so on.

Have a good look around... we hope it gives you an insight into what Rogue can do, and how your business can potentially utilise our Core3 CMS and other offerings and services from Rogue.

Simple but powerful tool added to Core3

E-communicate is a simple tool added to Core3 to allow visitors to your site to sign up to a mailing list that you can use to communicate with them, quickly and simply.

Its a fully featured mailing system that confirms your customers email address and confirms they want to join the list before any mails are received. 

Any emails sent out by you will also have an opt out link attached to the bottom of the mails that allows them to easily opt out of any further emails.

All the display pages and confirmation emails are fully customisable so can be used to tell your customers about site updates or product news or any thing else important to you and your customers.

Core3 gets first series of updates

Core3 clients will be glad to hear that the first set of Core3 updates has been successfully rolled out to their CMS. These updates include:

1) Press Office / News - User Comments System

Stories / articles within the news/press area can now have comments switched on or off. Switching comments on will enable readers to give feedback and interact with the story administrator who intern will be informed by email of a new post. Posts need approval by the administrator before they are set live. Comments appear in chronological order beneath the news story in-line with the new comments form.

2) Press Office / News - User Poll System

You can now attached a user/customer poll to news items/article which can be switched on and off by the story administrator. A poll consists of a simple question and multiple answers. Users can select an answer, which will
then display the current poll results. Cookies are used to remember the user has answered that question and will not knowingly ask them again. The poll system will appear as standard to the right of the comments system, below
the news story. You can move the positioning of this system within your CSS as well as changing any styles / formatting to suit your site.

3) News Area Administration

The current news management system has always allowed for multiple news categories, but has only allowed for one to be chosen as the homepage news system.

To display further news areas, i.e. Latest News, Movie News, Music News etc, can now be done with the news area upgrade. News categories can now be assigned to navigation items (as is currently done with galleries, downloads
and other functions) with their own news listing, display page and search tool.

This upgrade has opened up the news display and archiving system allowing whole sections of a website to be managed with images, music, audio and downloads within their own self contained area without additional coding or functional changes.

4) Banner System

We have upgraded the banner management tool to allow for a third banner. The third banner is set as a right hand skyscrapper utlising the internal GIF / URL feature or 3rd party inline code feature as before.

This banner is set up within the main template and CSS as #rightinfo and #skyholder which are both currently set not to display. You can amend your core design to allow for a third banner placement area (known as Skyscrapper
within the administration area) and styled to display the banner where you would like it placed.

5) Support Ticket System

We have upgraded the Core3 system with its own built-in support ticket system. The master administrator can access the system within their administration navigation.

The support ticket system allows a Core3 administrator to report bugs, ask questions and request amends through a fully tracked ticketing system, which will also sends ticket status updates via email. Documents and images
/ screenshots can be uploaded within a request, keeping all relevant information together.

If you have any queries or questions about our recent upgrades, please contact us by telephone, email or for current Core3 clients (and a large percentage of Core2 clients), through the support ticket system.

We hope you enjoy the upgrades.

The Rogue Core3 Team.