About Crystal

Crystal Science & Technology, or Crystal, is a development company focusing on web-based solutions using Open Source software and providing IT Consulting.

List of services: E-Commerce • Application Development • Content Managed Sites – Monolingual or multilingual • Professional Design • IT Consulting


Explore Crystal

Coming soon: Fimasys
Written by crystal   @  Friday, 15 August 2008

Coming soon is Fimasys!  Fimasys, founded in 1986, is a leading provider of e-finance software solutions and consulting.  The website upgrade is to feature four languages; French, English, Chinese and Spanish.  Other features include:

  • Joomla 1.5
  • Mootools accordion & hover menus
  • Easy PDF Management
  • Frontpage slideshow

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Ben McMillan Photography
Written by crystal   @  Sunday, 06 July 2008

Launched this week is Ben McMillan Photography!  Is it minimal?  Yes.  Does it use Flash? No!  We used jQuery and the UI libraries along side Wordpress & NextGen gallery plugin to provide a really smooth gallery website.  A lot of the time you can have a flash website but then suffer an management nightmare trying to get flash to talk to databases or files.  Thanks to awesome (and Open Source) javascript frameworks like jQuery and the versatility of Wordpress which make this possible.

Visit:  www.benmcmillan.co.uk

Ben McMillan Photography

 
Meiriyici Launched
Written by crystal   @  Sunday, 06 July 2008

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!

Meiriyici

 
Coming soon: tbjkids!
Written by crystal   @  Sunday, 06 July 2008

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:

tbjKids 

 
Coming soon: Liaoning Dinosaur Park
Written by crystal   @  Sunday, 06 July 2008

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

Liaoning Dinosaur Park