Sales Director for Explore, Carl Burrows commented "I felt it only fitting to praise when praise is due - and this is one of those times."

Marketing Manager, Michelle Laverick also commented "Thanks once again - it is a massive step forward in the right direction!"

We continue to support Explore with their websites, and have been supplying them with development, consultancy, integration, technical support and hosting for over 5 years.

Find out more about the Explore Website here.

Being a supporter of all things charitable, and also a sufferer of Bi-Polar disorder himself, Stephen Fry promised to post a message on Twitter wishing the guys good luck - great!

Stephen Fry has nearly 4.5 million followers on Twitter, so we received this stark warning - 

WARNING: When Stephen tweets a URL to a given website, up to 3-000-500,000 people will attempt to visit that website within one hour. Very few websites can manage that intense traffic as the majority of it is within the first few minutes. Your website, it must be able to capable of taking 1200+ calls per second to the website’s server in order to be able to stay live once Stephen’s Tweeted. Please check with your website server provider. Many providers will simply say “Yes it is”. You must double check with a technician for your website.

1200+ hits per second is a lot for a server to deal with... However we like a challenge here at Mr Zen...

"the design and layout evoked adventure" 

"search results were easy to understand"

"I was impressed at how quickly I could find and book a tour"

• BLEEDING EDGE - The most up to date travel content management system on the market.
• WORLD CLASS SEARCH - The latest search capabilities using the full power of facetted search.
• SMOOTH - Amazing JavaScript libraries giving improved AJAX functionality.
• EASY IMAGE MANAGEMENT - Manage your images in our component or integrate with your back office image library for seamless web images.
• INTEGRATABLE - Incredibly flexible plugin architecture makes custom integration possible with virtually any back-office system.
• CUSTOMISABLE - The template engine gives you TOTAL control of your look, feel and functionality.
• NEW! DESIGN PARTNERS - Use our Design Partners, Expert in the Travel industry for a single point of contact, or you can use your own design team. 
• SCALABLE - Advanced Caching, flexible hosting options and off the shelf CDN integration makes the system scalable to any size of Tourism Organisation.
• USABLE - All administration functions have a clean and regular look and feel for easy administration.
• EXTENDABLE - Start off with a simple website and add in functionality later on...

Based on the Joomla 2.5+ framework the system is easy to use and gives you access to around 10,000 3rd party extensions to provide functionality from Games to Social Media, Videos to eCommerce Stores - all on the same website.

We are really excited to show off the capabilities and advantages for your business.

Call Matt Illston for more information and a face to face demonstration on 0845 257 6258. 

Please note - this is an enterprise level travel system, we do not offer this as a downloadable package currently because of the installation and training required. Please sign up to our newsletter to keep abreast of TravelZen Lite - due later this year!

We hope you like it...

This week another such website was launched by the U.K.'s Ministry of Defence.

The Stabilisation Unit is a government division to provide expert support to fragile and conflict-states. The Unit reports to the Ministry of Defence, Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Department for International Development. Their new website is at http://www.stabilisationunit.gov.uk.