This new version of the site was launched in May 2008, Irish Emigrant Publications is Ireland's longest-established Internet publishing company. The Irish Emigrant, their weekly newsletter covering Irish news, is the oldest Internet-based national news service in the world. They have a monthly readership of roughly 360,000 individuals and have a paper based newspaper distributed throughout Boston and New York. We are receiving traffic in excess of 1500 individual users per day.

CSS were contracted to revitalise the system and bring it up to modern web standards, including a fully featured and customised CMS, full multimedia support for images, video streaming, podcasts, greeting cards, classifieds and more.

An advanced Newsletter system was deployed to enable distribution of attractive html newsletters to their readership for each of the following publications:

• The Irish Emigrant
• Professional Ireland
• Arts Ireland
• Sports Ireland
• Bookview Ireland

Take a look at the screenshots to see how a typical newsletter looks when it is received by readers.

This is a truly massive development with over 300 news categories and in excess of 100,000 articles!

The site features:

• Full import of over 100,000 articles from the old MSSQL based system into a customised Joomla installation
• Two custom templates for Professional Ireland and The Irish Emigrant
• Template Switcher to emulate the appearance of two sites in one. Each site has it's own content
• Fully customised CMS with:
  • User registration
  • Interactive Multimedia Photo Galleries
  • Streaming Audio
  • Streaming Video
  • Online Events Management
  • Classifieds
  • Online Polls
  • Company Buyer's Guide
  • Top Features Slideshow
  • Custom Slideshow Template
  • Advanced Banner Management
  • Multiple RSS Feed Syndication
  • Paper Based Magazine Subscriber Management
  • Integration to the major Social Bookmarking websites, such as, delicious, Facebook, Reddit, Digg, Google Bookmarks, Technorati, Fusker, etc.
  • Fully Featured Commenting system whereby users can leave comments at the end of articles
  • Newsletter component that enables fully graphical ezines to be developed and manage multiple lists
  • Form management - create your own forms
  • Document uploader
  • Full article control
  • Advanced bookmarking

You can see some screenshots of the site and newsletters here: