2. latitude 26
Media Agency - Social Networks Strategy
website
www.latitude26.co.uk
Vertical Markets
solutions
Latitude 26 develops custom grade solu-
tions using CMS like Joomla or magento
commerce for shopping cart solutions.
Latitude 26 is a media agency specializ-
ing in developing vertical markets solu-
tions for the Real Estate and the Yachting
Yacht Charter Solution Industry. All our solutions are integrated
with the main social networks in order to
extend the syndication of information.
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4. The Yacht Charter Reservation solution
for joomla was designed to answer
the needs of yacht charter companies.
It allows a yacht charter business to
manage, promote and syndicate the
yacht fleet. The Yacht Charter solution
is integrated with 15 social networks
and generates high quality property
PDF brochures and monthly magazines.
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5. unmatched features
The Yacht Charter Reservation solution
for joomla gives the possibility to yacht
charter companies to manage the com-
plete process of chartering a yacht from
managing the listings to answering leads
requests and maintaining the availability
calendar. The solution allows to manage
the reservation requests and generate
the different charter contracts.
Nowadays, publishing yacht listings on
the company’s web site is not enough to
reach potential buyers. A good market-
ing strategy is to reach propects where
they are most likely to be.
Furthermore, extended features in terms
of RSS Feed and XML feed generation
allow your listings to be syndicated to a
large array of sites automatically : Vast,
Oodle, OlX. As well, an xml feed compli-
ant to the openmarine standard allows
to syndicate the feeds to all the sites fol-
lowing this standard. (Boat24,the yacht-
market, Boatshop24....)
All our applications are integrated with
social networks through APIs: Facebook,
Twitter, Flickr, Picasa, Scribd, Issuu,
Slideshare, Docstoc, Boxnet, Wordpress,
Blogger.
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6. advanced Yachting solution
Yacht charter
Yacht Charter for
joomla 2.5
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7. advanced application architecture
The Yacht Charter Reservation solution for joomla 2.5 is delivered with several modules and slide-
shows to present the yachts in different styles. Each yacht listing through the listing parameters
can use a different image slider. We add new features to the application every month as part of an
upgrade service plan.
Detail yacht listing pages in the frontend use an exclusive 960gs grid system. Each block can ren-
der predefined modules making it very flexible in terms of settings and layout.
Modules from joomlart, joomlaxtc, gavick, rockettheme were integrated with our applications. The
widgetkit from yootheme has also been integrated in our solutions for ease of use.
A data dictionary allows to publish or unpublish the fields shown in the data maintenance screens.
Furthermore, a forms builder allows to customise all the predefined forms included in the applica-
tion.
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8. high quality pdf brochures generation
high quality
The Yacht charter Reservation application includes an exclusive pdf magazines
high quality PDFs generation php5 library. You will be able to generation
generate high quality brochures for every listing through a mainte-
nance screen or cronjob. As well it is possible to generate a catalog The Yacht Charter Reservation is integrated with The
which includes all current listings. The PDF generation uses tem- Yachting Network. Through an xml feed respecting the
plates and over 50 parameters for the layout: over 80 fonts, colors, adobe indesign worklflow, we can import the listings in
document size can be adjusted. Pages can include background high quality yachting magazines we produce each month.
images. Flexible design allows to match any layout and the com- The magazines are then distributed to a very large audience
pany’s graphical color chart. around the world to maximize the visibility of your listings.
Latitude 26 offers a customization service where we can take your
existing graphical chart and customize the templates which will
be used by the application to generate the PDF brochure catalog
print ad design service
and listing flyer. Brochures. All PDFs documents includes QR code
generation.
Latitude 26 graphist team offers a service of print ad design providing high
impact visuals for your listings.
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10. integrated with main
Social networks
Yacht Charter
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11. The Yacht Charter Reservation solution for joom-
la 2.5 is integrated with social networks through
APIs: Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Picasa, Scribd,
Issuu, Slideshare, Docstoc, Boxnet, Wordpress,
Blogger. It allows to post fleet status, new fleet
listing info, charter special offers, automatically
through cronjobs or manually through the inte-
grated social networks scheduler maintenance
screen.
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12. Integrated with the Yachting network
The Yacht Charter Reservation solution for joomla 2.5 is integrated with The Yachting Network through an Adobe inDesign workflow integration. It generates an xml feed which is
syndicated to a master server from the client website. We use this xml file to generate high quality monthly magazines in PDF format (and soon in iPad apps monthly magazines).
It increases the visibility of your charter fleet through this additional exposure.
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13. The Yacht Charter Reservation Solution for joomla
2.5 was designed for yacht charter companies who
want to put in place a turnkey application. The
application architecture allows to manage multiple
offices and multiple agents. There are 2 adminis-
tration areas. The front-end administration area is
accessible by agents to manage the fleet and the
reservations calendars. The backend administra-
tion area allows the site administrator to maintain
and setup the other features. (Custom develop-
ments are as well possible)
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14. professional Yacht Charter Reservation solution running on joomla 2.5
We develop all our solutions with professional grade application design and features. We focus our attention and expertise on clients who need to implement a powerful and flexible solu-
tion. Our vertical markets solutions run on the CMS joomla 2.5 in order to benefit from great templates design. The Yacht Charter Reservation solution was entirely rewritten from scratch
for the new version joomla 2.5 and its new API. Our vertical markets applications provide turnkey solutions . The application is preloaded with validation tables and main information
requests forms. A client could use the application “right our of the box” or elect to modify some of the maintenance screens. The Yacht Charter Reservation solution includes a data dic-
tionary coupled with a maintenance screen builder. It is a matter of publishing or unpublishing the fields which are not needed in a particular project without any coding.
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15. All our solutions are integrated with the joomfish (falang) transla-
tion component in order to manage a multilingual site. We created
directly in our application maintenance screens for the translation
which updates joomfish (falang). It is much easier that way to main-
tain the translations.
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16. Contact us for your Next project.
We believe that sustainable growth can only be achieved through outstanding quality of service.
www.latitude26.co.uk - London, UK: +44 (0)20 7078-4226
www.latitude26.ch - Crans Montana,CH: +41 (0)27 483 1220
www.latitude26.us - Miami,Fl,USA: +1 (305) 394-9652
Skype:Latitude26.ch