Australian Guide & Directory

Absolutely Australia Tourism & Trade Guide
Australian directory & information portal for visiting Australian tourist destinations and conducting business in Australia.

Regular Listing: $5.00 AUD (once only non-refundable fee)
Featured : $ 30.00 AUD per yr
Partnerships: Welcome!

One of the great things about this directory/guide, is that you aren’t restricted to just one category.
i.e. Hotel in Newcastle
Category submitted to: Hotels
Additional Category we attach it to: Newcastle (under NSW section)

You can advise them if you have a preference to where your second location will be, but it must be in the regional content (Australia - national, States, Regions,Towns,Cities).

As the site grows, so will the cost… so get in now while it’s still a bargain.

100% Green Powered & Carbon Neutral.

Have fun with the Dolphin!

Recently we decided to venture into the world of social networking for our site Absolutely Australia. I like MySpace for what it was, FaceBook I found all those notifications of cake, beers, kisses, dragons, etc a tad annoying (used to get 100’s of them!), Bebo was a cute program, and Orkut as with FaceBook kept you hidden behind locked doors. So I went of in search of a social networking program that encompassed what I wanted, which was a little of all of them put together.

I found some pretty good social networking programs out there, but there was one that stood out, and that was Dolphin. Aside from being like everyone & wanting everything as cheap as we can get it, I am also pretty fussy about how the site renders and its accessibility. Dolphin has been pretty impressive so far. What glitches you normally get on an install, were pretty easy to fix, with the help from their contributers at the forum. The admin section is easy to configure and navigate around. There are so many plugins for it, that I am dying to try a lot of them out (including a cool template builder for members). Members can pretty much customize it to how they want, swap interests with friends, forums, chat, video, blogs, you name it…. it pretty much has everything you could want. But best yet…. if you are prepared to carry their linkage in the footer…. it’s FREE! (you can lose the branding for a licence fee).

That’s right… I said FREE ! How cool is that!

It’s being used from dating sites, to sporting clubs, to hobbiest, travel, etc. You can check out the one I am in the process of building here: Ab Oz

Link Resource Directory Script

This is TOLRA Microsystems‘ “lite” directory version. Not only provides a link exchange repository, but can add value as a resource for your website. You can also make it seamless with your website.

http://www.attitude-emedia.net/web-directory/
http://attitude-emedia.com/web-directory/
http://the-xfactor.net/resources/
http://absolutely-australia.com/linkin/

this is a ‘lite’ version that was made into a Community Services directory
http://absolutely-australia.com/services/

p.s.
have had a few clients that really like them as a site addition too.

A ‘CMS’ is nothing more than a “content management system”

http://absolutely-australia.com.au/
Absolutely Australia

This started about 3 yrs ago using Drupal. What a pain in the butt every time you wanted to do something. Read endless pages of geek talk just to figure how to do it! I got better things to do with the very little free time I have!

Then switched to Mambo. Easy to skin. Easy to set up. Most of the module add ons were fairly easy to install. But try & make it anywhere near standards, and ya spend forever tearing it apart practically file by file.

Progressed onto Joomla. Good in so many aspects. But I wanted more skin flexibility & feed abilities, and be able to import various bits of code that it wouldn’t allow for.

Always had a directory running, and as Paul (TOLRA Microsystems) & I discussed different functionalities, and ones that he has added for other users, I found that I no longer needed a CMS… because the directory script was pretty much doing everything I wanted it to do. So everything has been taken out of the CMS & put into the directory DB, which is now also a portal & self styled CMS. (after all…. a CMS is nothing more than a “content management system”).

Even after moving domains, url’s & then going live… there were so many search engines crawling all over it.

“2 thumbs up” Paul

It’s a mobile world !

These mobile directories were made & just left to sit there & plod along until I was ready for them. As they will start to be promoted more in 2008, and with the mobile web going crazy at the moment, I thought it would be a good start to lists them here.

If you have a mobile website… SUBMIT IT
If you don’t… you should !
I love the freedom to leave my office & still be able to be online when I need to be.
It’s a mobile world… get mobile!

http://love-my.mobi/
General mobile website directory

http://myoz.mobi/ (will be mobi version of Absolutely Australia)

http://surf-my.mobi/
Adventure on the go
(going to start promo’ing this one soon hopefully)

http://w3search.mobi/
Trades & Services

http://ozsurf.mobi/ - COMING SOON
Mobile surf directory for reports, accommodation, & other surf related info.