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We've launched a new section: Testimonials

Unfortunately we've felt a bit this financial crisis, as most of our European customers were from the U.K. and Great Britain was strongly hit during October, November and December 2008.

We had a good amount of work planned for a couple of large British companies, but we've lost it due to these contractors' financial problems. Adding to this detail that we didn't accept some projects to make sure we have enough room for these British contractors, you can get the picture.

Anyway, rather than complaining or taking an unplanned holiday, I've decided to leverage the free time between some small projects to work on improving a bit our company Web site.

I would like to refer here to what I consider the most important update, which is in fact a new section called Testimonials.

As you may already be aware, PRO IT Service S.R.L. has been founded by myself way back in 2002 and since then we've server a couple of hundred of customers. Nevertheless this performance, we didn't have enough time to devote to mentioning these jobs under our portfolio, nor to consider adding a Testimonials section.

Given the new circumstances, in November I've planned this testimonials section and I've started by contacting about 20 customers and asking them to provide us a testimonial. Some were very quick, some less and some are still to prepare a testimonial for us.

On January the 19^th, 2009 after having collected about testimonials, I've decided it is the time to publish them online.

This evening I've got a call from a contact telling me that he was impressed with what we found out about our company, but that he only seen a few testimonials. I've explained him that this section is just launched for about 3 weeks now. He though the section is as old as the company :)

Anyway, I'm going to make clear on our Web site that this section is brand new.

http://www.pro-it-service.com/en/testimonials.html

Posted by Mihai Bocsaru on February 05, 2009
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Thank you for 2008 and Happy New Year!

I would like to thank all our customers for ending 2008 with another important business growth.

Due to the amount of work and to the intention of expanding our team, during 2008 we’ve contracted a mortgage and bought a larger flat where to operate this new media business.

Nevertheless the crisis which affected us a bit, as most of our customers are from the United States and from the United Kingdom, we closed the year with satisfactory financial results, but most of all, proud of the projects we’ve worked on.

The plans we have for 2009 are to increase our team and to bring this business to the next stage by engaging a private investor and by expanding in one hand our customers base and on the other the number of services offered by hiring more people.

Happy New Year! to all and hope this year will put an end to the financial crisis affecting the global market.

Posted by Mihai Bocsaru on January 09, 2009
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Movable Type upgraded to version 4.23. Consultant available!

Six Apart announced a new Movable Type version which, according to the press release, it is a mandatory security release recommended for all users and fixes a good number of bugs from version 4.21.

On a side note, you should know that there was no version 4.22, so don't worry that after v4.21 the movable type crew launched v4.23 (it's a long story that is not made public yet).

Looking at the change log, I've noticed that I've dealt with some of the bugs fixed in this new release.

I should express my gratefulness to Six Apart for putting together this improved movable type version.

Are you having your own Movable Type installation? Are you interested for an upgrade? I'm available to upgrade your Movable Type installation to v4.23. Get in touch via the contact page form...

You may like to check the movable type v4.23 change log below.

Posted by Mihai Bocsaru on December 04, 2008
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How To Troubleshoot Text Formatting Issues When Taking Content From Ms Word?

I've had a customer complaining today that he has some text formatting issues when copying and pasting content that he wrote with Ms Word into his Movable Type v4.21 driven Web site.

The client was wondering if he is doing something wrong, as some other posts already published on his Web site were looking impeccable.

My dears, the problem is well known with a very large range of blogging tools and content management systems (CMS).

The work around this trouble is to Save the document As "Web Page, Filtered (*.htm, *.html)".

Troubleshooting MS Word Content Text Formatting

After choosing the new format, Ms Word will alert you that if you go ahead with the 'Save As' command you've just ordered will remove 'Office-specific' tags. Since this is actually the goal with going through this 'Save As' procedure, you should click 'Yes' on that alert window.

Troubleshooting MS Word Content Text Formatting Alert

At this stage you can safely copy and paste content from this new format document into your publishing platform, Movable Type or not.

This will solve your text formatting problem after trying to copy and paste content from a document wrote in Ms Word.

Posted by Mihai Bocsaru on October 17, 2008
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Why is it important to upgrade Movable Type?

Why is it important to upgrade Movable Type? I bet many of you bloggers, have been wondering at least a few times in life:

"- Why should I upgrade my blogging platform?"

"- Why do I have to upgrade movable type when the current version does what I want to do with it. I just need to post my articles and that's it!".

Well, we are passing a period when absolutely any technology we are using, either it is for blogging or any thing else, movable type, word press, joomla, whatever... they all have security issues that could be exploited sooner or later...

This is the case also with Movable Type and the crew at Six Apart together with the Pronet community are doing their best to discover and fix any bug or security holes.

What is nice about Movable Type is that the company behind it listens to the bloggers community and converts their ideas into practice with each and every version.

This is a second reason to go for an upgrade!

My professional advice to you is to always keep your blogging platform updated to the most recent stable built.

At this stage you may wonder:

"- But where could I find a movable type consultant to upgrade the installation for me?"

"- How much does upgrading movable type cost?"

"- Is it worth spending a certain amount of money to upgrade movable type?"

You are here at the right place to ask for a movable type upgrade service.

We are successfully doing this service for so many customers that we've already lost the counting.

The main reasons bloggers choose us to upgrade their movable type installations is that the cost for an upgrade is as low as 100 USD, which is a very competitive rate in this business and this amount is really worth for your publishing experience.

You will discover that with every movable type upgrade your blogging experience is better. The menu is better organized, there are extra options and features and overall your movable type satisfaction is increased.

You've read till here, but you may wonder:

"- Alright, I understand everything so far. But, give me some tangible reasons to upgrade to movable type v4.2 or movable type v4.21 which seems to be the most recent version. BTW, why there are two v4.2x versions?"

Posted by Mihai Bocsaru on September 03, 2008
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Movable Type goes v4.21. Upgrade patch available!

Six Apart come up with an excellent news! There are just 10 days since Movable Type v4.2 has been launched. People from all over the world identified quite a series of bugs on what was meant to be the most secure and quick movable type version seen so far.

In an effort to make the whole community happy and isolate these bugs ASAP, the movable type crew launched today movable type v4.21.

Since there were quite two important bugs reported as being fixed, I didn't think twice and started to upgrade all the movable type installations I've recently upgraded to v4.2. Believe me, there were quite a few dozens and re-upgrading them would have been a nightmare unless I would have just uploaded the files that changed in the new release

Felt like this could be a problem other people may face, I've also made available online two patches (one for movable type professional and another for the open source version) which will let somebody upgrade from v4.2 to v4.21 is just a minute or so

http://www.movabletype4.org/2008/08/movable_type_v421_patch.html

Remember that anytime you need help with movable type installation, movable type upgrades from any version to any version, or any kind of movable typo consultancy service, you could ask for it here via instant messaging, email, contact form or phone call

Happy blogging everyone!

Posted by Mihai Bocsaru on August 22, 2008
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Movable Type v4.2 is live! The time for upgrades :)

I'm extremely excited that Six Apart just launched Movable Type v4.2

Last night I was driving back home and at a light stop I've picked up my cell phone and accessed my main email box. When I've seen Anil Dash's announcement that Movable Type v4.2 was released I really felt an extraordinary sensation

Instead of dropping off at home, I went to a local shop and brought in a beer for celebrating the event! I know, I should have got a Champaign, but I will consider it for the next Le Web 3 in Paris when I will meet the Six Apart crew again

The new Movable Type is faster than ever, for certain operations such as the search is even up to 100 times faster!

The great news in top of this is that at PRO IT Service we've made available the Open Source and the Professional versions of this release absolutely free for anybody to check and evaluate online at: http://www.movabletype4.org/

Furthermore, we've already upgraded a couple of blogs to v4.2 and everything looks excellent! We've started this operation with the movable type web sites that we host or that we contract for the upgrading service

Do you want somebody to install or upgrade your Movable Type installation for you?

Just ask using the contact form above!

You may also want to:

Check out more about the new release at:
http://www.movabletype.org/2008/08/movable_type_42_is_here.html

View an absolutely free online demo at:
http://www.movabletype4.org/ (service provided worldwide by PRO IT Service)

Posted by Mihai Bocsaru on August 13, 2008
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Recoding Movable Type Projects Based On The Movable Type 4 Templating System

I'm going to call this a day, but I won't like to go and get a good nap before sharing with you a few notes based on a project I've worked on today

Lynne Kiesling from http://www.knowledgeproblem.com/ contacted me saying that she needs help with her Movable Type weblog.

Basically, nevertheless she was used to Movable Type and upgraded it herself over the years, she recently encountered problems after upgrading to Movable Type v4.01 that were "beyond my coding capabilities" as she kindly mentioned.

She wanted me to recode her project templates based on the MT4 framework, to install a new Web site theme from the ones available online and to also add some other features

I've already coded a couple of projects since Movable Type v4.x entered the scene, but I should say that it was indeed a pleasure to recode her project.

Recoding a movable type Web site based on the v3.x framework into the new framework, with all the new principles introduced by v4.x apart from the excitement it brings could have also a weak point and that is called heavy "publishing times"

Six Apart tried to make this product as simple and intuitive as possible for any blog owner to be able to edit the template, go though all the included modules, create or manage widgets from the side column(s) and more.

Taking as an example only the "Widget Sets" facility which, nevertheless allows you to easily update your Movable Type Web site side bar(s) by dragging and dropping widgets, regenerating all those widgets could be a problem if we are talking about large blogs

Posted by Mihai Bocsaru on February 22, 2008
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Movable Type Design Assistant: Styles Live Customization is Here

Six Apart just revealed an excellent new tool they are working on and which allows you to easily pick up a new look and feel for your Web site from a Styles Library.

Style Catcher Next Generation

Those of you that have heard or used Style Catcher, the new product is like a Style Catcher next generation and allows you not only to choose and adopt a new look and feel, but to also modify the layout characteristics as you like.

Movable Type Design Assistant comes also with an easier and more intuitive interface which guides you throughout the whole new design adopting process.

Each Design Comes In Six Layout Formats

Another excellent feature is that each and every style from the library is available in not less than six possible layout formats covering actually the most popular layout structures currently available online.

These six layout formats are:

Layout-wtt (3 columns: Wide, Thin, Thin)

Layout-twt (3 columns: Thin, Wide, Thin)

Layout-wt (2 columns: Wide, Thin)

Layout-tw (2 columns: Thin, Wide)

Layout-wm (2 columns: Wide, Medium)

Layout-mw (2 columns: Medium, Wide)

Posted by Mihai Bocsaru on February 08, 2008
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Upgrading to Movable Type Open Source v4.1

It's quite some time since I didn't publish anything new in here

Well, I've had a very busy time with my work and I've also been in London for about 2 weeks with business meeting a few already established customers and also meeting a few new prospects

The time I had in London was great. I was leaving near London Bridge and London Tower, two very nice places in Zone 1 not far from the Westminster and Buckingham Palaces.

During my stay in London the Movable Type Crew at Six Apart launched Movable Type v4.1 in two versions, one Commercial and the other Open Source. Nevertheless I've made these two versions available online for free testing at movabletype4.org I didn't have the time to try to actually upgrade one of my customers' version.

However, today I've had the opportunity to do my first upgrade from movable type v3.35 to movable type v4.1 open source. The transition was very nice, nevertheless I had to do a few tweaks to make sure all he had before works also on this new version.

If I will be to upgrade all our customers I will go beyond 200 movable type instances :)

However, if you need to upgrade your movable type driven web site from any version to any other version just get in touch using the contact form and I or my technicians would be more than glad to do this job for you in a professional manner.

Posted by Mihai Bocsaru on February 02, 2008
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