About 2 weeks ago, I received an e-mail from Barrie North of Compass Designs, telling me about a security vulnerability within Joomla 1.15 wherein a person could get in and change my admin password, thus advising me to urgently upgrade to version 1.5.6 to avoid disaster. Sadly, I did not take notice.

A few days after that, I received an e-mail from somebody, telling me about the same vulnerability. The only difference is that he told me he would fix the issue for $200. So I logged in to my administrator’s control panel and behold… that person changed my admin password. Luckily though, that was the only problem and I have a database back-up so I restored the original password. Right away I downloaded and applied the patch from Joomla.

Lesson learned: always check and apply new patches, especially security patches, and always listen to experts. Yeah I should have listened to Barrie in the first place…

After a few months from its official release, I finally got a chance to use Joomla 1.5 in a production environment, not just test sites. It’s a little different from the earlier versions and I’m still getting the hang of it. It seems to me though that it’s easier to use when you get more familiar with it. Maybe a few more sites and I will grasp the essence of the new version of Joomla.

Anyway, here’s the new site: The Philippine Condotels

I just built another site, Condotels Cebu, using the free template and slideshow module provided by JoomlaShine.

I just built another Joomla! powered website using the FREE template from Shape5. The project is for Hilton Cebu Resort and Towers.

I have just finished building a new site. The La Mirada Vistamar. La Mirada is the newest addition to Residencia de Vistamar Beach Club located along the shores of Mactan, Cebu. Residencia de Vistamar converts the dream of an easy and relaxed lifestyle into reality. Cebu, being a focal cultural site in the Philippines provides residents new expieriences found nowhere else. The first of two condominiums, La Mirada meets the demands and surpasses the expectations of many. With genuine quality found nowhere else, La Mirada completes life and takes it into a whole new level.

The Lancaster Suites Brand of Condotels launched the latest member of their web ring. The Condotel Sales. This site caters to on-line sales reservations needs of the company.

I have recently built my new homepage. It’s still under construction but it’s already live. I’ll be adding up more useful features everyday, so you are welcome to visit it regularly. The site is SEO Web Junction.

I’m currently working on a new project, a website that is to be used by a friend who is an on-line network marketer. Hence, I would be wrapping an auto-responder, an on-line marketer’s primary tool for the business.

I’ll be posting the link to the website here as soon as I’m done with the project. Maybe in two or three weeks…

I have recently added a new member to my Joomla! powered websites. This time I used the Zoom Gallery Component to showcase the products being offered.

This website is for a client who is a fashion jewelry exporter, fashion jewelry and crafts that are proudly Philippine made.

Extreme Design Export Trading

Another addition to my Joomla powered websites is The Royal Lancaster Club International.

Pacific Concord Properties Inc are set to launch an Exclusive Members Only Proprietary Business Club

Located within the Lancaster Suites [Manila] Condominium Hotel located along Shaw Boulevard, Metro Manila, Philippines, offering Corporate and Individual Proprietary Membership Shares or Debentures to the public in an [Initial Offering] slated for October/November 2007.

Beth Collingz, PLC International Marketing Networks Global Director for Sales & Marketing said “Facilities of the Club will include, for members only, Spa, Massage and Gym, Fine Dining Restaurant, Piano Bar & Lounge, Cigar Room, Card Room, Business Center, Full Secretarial Facilities, Reference Library, Board Room, Meeting/Conference Room, with discounted benefits for accommodation at the Lancaster Suites Manila and Lancaster Cebu Resort Residences. Members of the Royal Lancaster Club International and their families will also have the concession to use the developments Swimming Pool.

Apart from the Exclusive Membership Club, The Lancaster Suites [Manila] Condominium Hotel ['’Condotel'’] also offers Fully Serviced Executive Studio, 1 Bedroom, 2 Bedroom, 3 Bedroom and Penthouse Suites for sale on cash, and affordable deferred payment or installment purchase terms.

Lancaster Suites is located within 3 minutes walk to the MRT Shaw Boulevard Station and 5 minutes to EDSA/Ortigas Shopping Centre where major shopping malls are located such as; SM Megamall, and the Shangri-La Complex that includes the Shangri-La Mall, the Rustans Superstore and the EDSA Shangri-La Hotel. Yet a few minutes walk is the Ortigas Business Centre.

Within 5 to 10 minutes by car of Lancaster Suites are located the country’s best schools such as Poveda, La Salle Greenhills, Xavier School, and The Immaculate Concepcion Academy. You will also be surrounded by some of the most exclusive residential subdivisions such as Corinthian Gardens , Greenhills, Valle Verde, and Wack-Wack subdivision. A number of the country’s finest hospitals - Cardinal Santos, The New Medical City, The Polymedic — are also close by.

Pacific Concord Properties, Inc., Flagship Lancaster Suites Condotel developments are one of the hottest Condotel Investments in the Philippines. To be completed and ready for turnover from December 2010, the Lancaster Suites Manila Atrium Tower II will provide unit owners with premier residential condo units with the option of enrolling their units in the Lancaster Condotel Rental Pool where they can earn Rental Incomes [at current purchase levels] of some 12-16% ROI per annum as Owner Non-Residents when not using their units through Condotel Management and reciprocal arrangement with Lancaster Cebu Resort Residences.

All units at the Lancaster Suites have kitchen facilities. The standard unit price provides for the suite to be semi-finished but not fully furnished. Included in the current price are the interior finishing’s such as tiled & semi-fitted fitted bathrooms, bedrooms with simulated wood plank flooring, semi-fitted living and dining area with simulated wood plank floorings and lower kitchen cabinets/work tops installed. A complete Condotel Suite optional extra interior fit-out package including unit fittings and fixtures, furniture, furnishings, soft-furnishings, air-conditioning and appliances will be available towards the time the units are closer to being completed towards the latter part of 2010.

For more information please do not hesitate to contact:

Beth Collingz
PLC International Marketing Networks
Pacific Concord Properties Inc., Manila Head Office
Shaw Boulevard, Mandaluyong City. Metro Manila. Philippines
Phone: Manila [632] 717 1958
Fax: Manila [632] 718 1828

Pacific Concord Properties Inc., Cebu Office
Lapu-Lapu City, Mactan. Cebu. Philippines
Phone: Cebu [6332] 340 0721
Fax: [6332] 495 4938
EMail: plcsales@pldtdsl.net

http://www.lancastersuites.com
http://www.royallancasterclub.com
http://www.condotel-rentals.com