While working with some of our clients for custom service development, we realized the need of having a dedicated template for Solidres, today we are proud to introduce 7Start, it is a template built specifically for the hospitality business and has a tight integration with Solidres. It is fully responsive and has many custom modules. It also offers 7 different colors for you to choose from.
The template is well suited for a hotel, it is built on the well-known Warp Framework. The template will help you build your site in no time to your liking with minimal effort.
Features
3 columns layout (left, center, right)
7 predefined color styles
20 Module positions, all module positions are fully collapsible
Social icons with FontAwesome
All features of Warp framework
Built with HTML5 and CSS3
Bootstrap version: 2.3.0
Built-in CSS and Javascript Compression
Responsive layout
Highlights features of the template:
1. 7 color styles supported by default
There are up to 7 color styles that you can choose from.
2. Module Room Types
Bundled with module room types which automatically retrieves data from Solidres, it also show the lowest price of the room type, display room type’s images in a nice circle slider effect as well as showing room type’s description.
Solidres 0.4.1 (Beta) has been released, this is not a stable version therefore it should not be used in production environment.
New features in 0.4.1 ares:
Multilingual support: Solidres is now integrated with Falang ( a JoomFish’s fork).
Availability calendar: you can view availability calendar for each room type, if a room is busy it will be indicated with red color in the calendar.
Ability to change the reservation status.
Media Manager improvements: drag & drop re-ordering, add Select/Deselect all button, add pagination.
Move the Simple Gallery into a separated plugin: this opens the possibility for developers to write their own gallery instead of hacking the core of Solidres.
Remove <table> completely for the front end of Solidres to improve the responsive of the layout.
Indicate Featured room type in the front end.
Ability to send email to the hotel owner when new reservation is made.
JS/CSS compression: core CSS and JS files of Solidres are now shipped with 2 version: compressed and un-compressed to improve your site loading speed.
Bugs fixed and improvements
Incorrect availability checking in case of booking same day.
Date picket displayed underneath field State when edit a Coupon.
Make Currency and Email a required field for Reservation Asset.
Customer groups: in 0.4 a new customer group (“General”) is added, it will be used for public customers, non-loggedin customer.
Trashed room type still displayed in the frontend.
Broken geocoding feature.
Url is not escaped correctly in the reservation form.
Better error handling and file name validation for media uploading.
Show full image of room type thumbnail in front end.
Almost a month after the release of 0.1.0, we are happy to announce Solidres 0.2.0 (Beta) is available for testing now, this is not a stable version therefore it should not be used in production environment.
New features in 0.2.0 ares:
Auto update feature
Update Swift Mailer from 4.1.6 to 4.2.2
Use Icomoon icons for side navigation bar
Social networks selections in custom fields
Improve responsive layout (work best with 3rd templates based on Twitter Bootstrap)
Installation landing page
Upgrade jQuery UI from 1.8.23 to 1.9.2
Ability to override Solidres’s CSS from 3rd templates
Bugs fixed and improvements
Sending emails based on Joomla email configuration
jQuery conflicts with 3rd templates
Zend_Currency no locale found
Backend form saving failed with dynamically inserted element
Hard coded table prefix for PostgreSQL installation sql script
