Autocrescente - Comércio de Automóveis, Lda is based in Ribeira Brava on the island of Madeira. Under the directorship of Duarte Reis who has a vast experience in the auto sales industry and has clear and dynamic objectives to better serve his clients - the company has published their new web site during the ‘Mercado do Usados’ autoshow held at the Madeira Tecnopolo.

Autocrescente are sending a clear message “Focusing on Quality is Focusing on the Future”. The new site display all the cars curently available with full details, prices and photos. The company also offers services of insurance and financing.
Additionally, site viewers have the opportunity to chat directly with a company operator and get further information.

The site which has been developed around the Joomla platform was designed by ‘Navega Bem - Web Design‘; a prominent web design company based in Madeira that have built a reputation as Joomla professionals on an international level.

Visit the new site of Autocrescente here.

The Table Tennis Association of Madeira has launched its new web presence. The site now features a vast array of information for both table table players and fans alike.

The site allows full access to all results and events as well as providing in depth information about tournaments, sponsors and an up to date image gallery. The site is updated daily and there are plans to supply live streaming video of events in the future.

The site was developed by Navega Bem and is crafted around the Joomla CMS framework.

The luxury villa and apartment rental company based on Madeira island ‘Palheiro Property Rentals‘ has gone live with its brand new web offering.

Web site administrator Amr Ashour said “we have luxury villas and apartments for rent at extremely reasonable rates. Our property rentals and management services are focused on ensuring the guests are well looked after and continue to return year after year.”

The properties are all located on Palheiro Village, a small, luxury development of apartments and villas, situated within the 200 year old Palheiro estate, where the facilities include; swimming pool, panoramic sun terrace, golf, botanical gardens, tennis and big game fishing.

Amr further explained “It is important to remember that renting a holiday home is different from reserving a room at a hotel, bed and breakfast or resort.  The benefits of renting includes having a home experience with full home advantages available to you throughout your stay.  Many tenants find that renting a holiday home provides them with exceptional value.”

“In addition to bedrooms and bathrooms, rental homes offer living areas, eating spaces and other conveniences such as verandas and balconies.  Rental homes come equipped with fully stocked kitchens, washers and dryers, and feature entertainment items such as DVD players, CD players and TV’s. High speed Internet access is being added to many of the homes.”

The new website has been developed around the Joomla CMS framework and allows online reservations of the available properties. Visit Palheiro Property Rentals

ATLANTICPEARL LDA. IS A LOCAL PROPERTY COMPANY WITH A UNIQUE APPROACH TO REAL ESTATE.
With a diversified portfolio, atlanticpearl, through its commercial brand hi-life homes and hi-life care, builds, manages and sells magnificent residential, hospitality & leisure real estate projects in Madeira Island, Portugal.

Their positioning as “purveyors of dreams” ensures that they attribute great importance to the small and large details that translate into a life of style, comfort and well-being to those who invest in their properties. From overall site location to post-sale customer support, they try harder each and every day to fulfil their customers’ needs and wants of owning their second home or permanent residence here in Madeira.

Find out more about the development currently available with hi-life homes

The site has been developed around Joomla 1.5 by design professionals ‘Navega Bem - Web Design‘.

Madeira Story Centre

If you are visiting the island of Madeira, don’t miss the opportunity to visit a fascinating museum that is like no other.

The Madeira Story Centre is a spectacular modern museum about Madeira’s History and culture.

It is like a story teller, designed to make your visit a unique experience, the exhibition draws on interactive displays that will allow you to learn about the History of the Island while feeling the environment of the different periods through smells, sounds, interactive games and challenges which will capture your attention and trigger all your senses.

It is the perfect place to start your visit to Madeira Island. It will give you a panoramic view over the archipelago History.

The Madeira Story Centre also offers a shop, with the best souvenirs and art & crafts in town, and a themed café explored by Penha D’Águia, a centenary pastry shop in Funchal.

The site was chosen by the Joomla resource and extension web site ‘Best of Joomla‘ as site of the day. For the Madeira Story Centre this a welcome award as the site has been chosen on an international level and can obviously compete with the best sites on the world wide web.

In the last 4 weeks the Joomla resources and extensions website ‘Best of Joomla‘ have chosen 4 websites for their prestigious ‘site of the day‘ award. The quite amazing thing is that all of those sites chosen have two things in common; they all belong to the Blandy Group ‘Palheiro Estate’ family of websites and they were all developed by Navega Bem - Web Design. Suspicious?

Chris Szabo, MD of Navega Bem was not available to comment on the awards. However, we do know that sites are chosen on the following criteria:
1. Design 40%
2. Navigation 20%
3. Content 20%
4. Graphics 15%
5. Personality 5%

The sites chosen over the last 4 week period are:
Palheiro Golf - Madeira island’s stunning golf course
Palheiro Estate - The experts for your permanent home or a holiday hideaway
Casa Velha - The luxury country house hotel
Madeira Marlin - M.Y. Balancal - Big Game Fishing

So what is going on here? Have these sites been chosen unfairly… or are they just amazingly good websites.

‘Navega Bem - Web Design‘ celebrate another successful project launch with the introduction of a unique digital DVD download website Fishing DVDs.

The site was officially launched at their design and development office in Funchal, Madeira - by the development team, project manager and sponsors.

Fishing DVDs is a technological innovation designed to allow the immediate download and subsequent play or burn of digital sportfishing movies. The site has been developed to cater for fishing fans that want to purchase quality films and who do not want to wait for postal delivery or pay expensive courier charges.

The development team responsible for the project have used Joomla 1.5 as the framework for the site and incorporated several proprietary programming features together with Virtuemart and technological innovation from a Norwegian company that have developed a combined payment platform and DRM (Digital Rights Management) clearing house as well as the creators of a compression utility developed in a Danish university that are based in Germany.

The owners of the site Strike Button Productions are also responsible for the recently launched and immensely popular online video magazine Marlin World.

Not surprisingly, leading film producers in the sportfishing film industry are showing great interest in this opportunity to sell their DVDs online.

See the site fishingdvds.tv here

The Madeira Wine Rally 2008 has concluded after what has been a spectacular competition with all the thrills and spills of a World Class Rally. Madeira island has once again shown it is a real proving ground for the seasoned professionals that have taken part in this leg of the European Championship.

Nicolas Vouilloz wins the Madeira Wine Rally 2008.

Giandomenico Basso is second.

Alexandre Camacho finished third.

In fourth place was former European Champion Renato Travaglia.

Nicolas Vouilloz has now taken his first victory of the year in the 2008 IRC series and claims the exclusive lead of the drivers’ standings. He also underins Peugeot’s lead in the manufacturers’ rankings.

Navega Bem congratulates all participants and thank everyone that helped in completing our web related projects for the start of the Rally.

The 2008 Madeira Wine Rally, the largest automobile event in the Region is into its second and final day.
Famous names from the world of motor racing and their cars are taking part in this major event.

58 participants were allowed to start the race with 21 special stages, to be covered by the drivers over three days.

With the second and final day of the Madeira Wine Rally underway, the top five drivers appearing on the leader board are fighting a heated battle for points and podium positions.

At lunch time today the Peugeot domination over the last several stages of Rally Madeira came to an end – somewhat – along the numerous curves of the Ponta do Pargo 1 stage, when Giandomenico Basso’s Abarth Grande Punto and Bruno Magalhaes’ Peugeot 207 tied for the stage win.

Navega Bem  wants to thank everyone that helped in getting numerous technical projects ready in a timely and professional manner for the start of the Rally. Special thanks to Marcia:

See you all at the party