Coyne Technology Systems

We are pleased to announce the release of the AVR Additional Tools plug in Version 1.0 to the Atmel™ AVR Studio 4 development environment. The AVR Additional Tools plug in allows the user to define custom programs to be executed from within the AVR Studio 4 menu system. Continue Reading

WHMCS is a client management and billing support system primarily used as the back-end system for managing web hosting websites. Among other things, WHMCS includes the ability to send announcements to clients as messages in the hosting area, RSS feeds, or emails. Many articles have been written on how to include the announcements into custom developed webpages outside of the WHMCS billing system such as including them in a static home page for the site. In some cases you may wish to send an announcement about a potential change or upgrade that you would want to send to your clients, but may not be appropriate for your home page. This article will explain what is needed to selectively display announcements on the home page and create a WHMCS add-on module to allow control over which announcements are displayed on the external page. Continue Reading

We are pleased to announce the release of the AVR Logic Analyzer plug in Version 1.0 to the Atmel™ AVR Studio 4 development environment. The AVR Logic Analyzer displays IO port information for the AVR processor as defined in the AVR Studio project in a graphical manner. It records all of the IO port values as they are updated and allows you to see historical port value changes. Continue Reading

WHMCS is a client management, billing, and support solution and is widely used as the back end system to manage Web Hosting sites. WHMCS includes a built in knowledgebase system where the administrator can create articles to support clients in performing common topics. Since the knowledgebase is the first area of support for the users, It would be helpful to have a report on the knowledgebase articles to see the most used articles. This article walks through creating a custom report to show the most used articles in the knowledgebase. Continue Reading

We are pleased to announce that we have completed the redesign of the Fixin’ Chix Website a website for Do-It-Yourselfers with content from the original Fixie Chick, Brenna Hartmann. The site originally was written in a proprietary Content Management System (CMS) using Windows Active Server Pages (ASP). We re-hosted the content to the WordPress Blogging system. Although there are little visible changes to the end-user, using WordPress allows us to provide much richer information to the user such as: user friendly URLs, user comments, article lists, related posts, and much more! If you would like to check out the site, you can follow the link to the Fixin’ Chix Website

As you may be able to tell, we have redesigned the Coyne Technology Systems website. Our new site consists of a consistent theme throughout the site as well as a more structured layout of the information. We have added a workshop in the form of a eCommerce shopping system to allow purchasing our products as well as downloading free software and tools. Continue Reading

An XML sitemap file is essential to having search engines correctly find the files in your site. Maintaining a sitemap file can be almost as challenging as keeping your site up to date. In this article we describe a sitemap index file and how to logically layout your site to be more Search Engine Friendly for SEO. Continue Reading

Many times when developing websites we use Zen Cart eCommerce system with either a custom product type or one of the pre-defined product types in the generic installation (Music, Document, Free Shipping, etc) and the site is built entirely around that particular product type (i.e. we only sell music types on the music site, with no or very little document types). Having a way to change which type is selected by default in the admin area of Zen Cart when entering a new product would be handy since it is easy to overlook the dropdown and use the default ‘Product – General’ type. Continue Reading

We have worked to develop the Crystal Website Hosting and Development Site.  This site sells web hosting and development services.  We have integrated the main website to a back end billing system and performed database actions to dynamicaly request pricing, package details and other information from the billing system to be displayed in web pages outside the billing system.  See their homepage at http://www.crystal-hosting.net.

We have completed developing the basic website for Healthy Homes of Rochester. This site consists of a Web log (Blog) with topics related to discussions about living healthy, going green, and reducing your carbon footprint, as well as a e-commerce storefront for purchasing healthy and green products. If you like these topics or would like to see our quality developed website, visit them at http://www.healthyhomesofrochester.com.