Before the Olympics we have started something new - www.meiriyici.com .  It's an aim to not only provide an easy way for Chinese to learn an English word a day, but also a way to involve Open Source tools like Drupal to produce a Chinese only web site with a bilingual administration interface.  A lot of the modules written for social networking remain in a single language and do not deal with the challenges associated with Chinese.

Meiriyici will continue to grow thanks to the collaboration of our Dutch and Bulgarian partners who provide endless energy and ideas to help improve the website.  We're happy to hear some feedback, as we have a lot of ideas to be integrated in the coming weeks so watch this space!

Premier Beijing kids & family magazine tbjkids is undergoing a facelift here at Crystal.  A strong emphasis on UI has forged a beautiful & solid design which will be impressing the socks off readers and web surfers soon.  It is another Drupal site which is always welcome here at Crystal.  Drupal is a extremely powerful and flexible CMS that allows complicated linking of content required by such Magazine & Editorial websites. It also contains a powerful set of social networking modules and theme system. 

A little sample of things to come:

Coming soon is an exciting development both on and off the internet which is the Liaoning Dinosaur Park in of course, Liaoning.  The park allows anyone whether it be families, scientists or individuals to help dig up dinosaur fossils and take part in ground breaking research.  

The current website features are:

• Joomla 1.5
• 3 Languages: Chinese, English & French
• Mootools accordion & hover menus
• Photogallery
• Research Library & FAQ Area
• Forum

Our home grown application is being completed soon and we're very excited about it's eminent launch.  OBK stands for Online Book Keeping.  In a very simplistic way, it allows forms which we need to fill out to travel through an approval chain.  The data is delivered to an accounting company to process and monitor.  It will replace traditional paper trails associated with things like expense claims or purchase requests.  

Some other important features:

• Built with CakePHP 1.2
• Uses Petri-nets to model the non-destructive workflows
• Handles Payroll 
• Handles Cost Management (Budgets)
• Real-time reporting
• ...and a whole lot more!