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Calling all Junior Web Designers! Dragnet Systems is hiring!
[UPDATE: THIS POSITION HAS NOW BEEN FILLED.]
Dragnet Systems is expanding! We're looking for a talented individual to join our highly skilled design department. You can read all about the new job over at http://www.dragnet-systems.ie/Careers.
This is a great opportunity for anyone looking to move on up in the world of web design. It's a junior role but we do require some basic skills at least for you to be considered for this role. The full list of requirements are over at the Dragnet Careers page. Good luck to anyone applying :)
P.S. don't forget to include samples of your designs and html!!
[UPDATE: THIS POSITION HAS NOW BEEN FILLED.]
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Top 10 tips for running your online store
So you've invested loads of time and money building up your online store and you're ready to launch....now what? How can you get people to go to your site? How can you keep customers coming back for more?
I have been building online stores for customers for over 5 years now and it's always easy to spot the ones that will do well and the ones that will fail. Below is a Top 10 guide for making sure you do everything you can to make your online store the best it can be. These tips are not in any order but they are things that every store owner should be doing to make their online stores a success.
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Ballygarvanstonecraft.ie goes live
Dragnet Systems is proud to launch a huge new project for Ballygarvan stonecraft. This project includes a brand new fully content managed website, a micro site for the 'Barn Store' business, a full online store and estimating tool for garden planning!
The Ballygarvan online store is using our newly updated online store engine and features:
- colour and texture pickers.
- size options.
- brand new store layout for front end.
- Wholesaler section with promotions.
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How not to make an online store
I recently ordered some clothing items off a new Irish online store and it really highlighted how poorly people value the web in this country. I purchased some clothes in a retail shop in Cork and wanted to check out the online store advertised on the tag. To be clear the online store was for the clothing item not the retail shop I bought it in. Actually the store I bought the items from doesn't even sell items online but that's another issue ;)
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Setup MMS on iPhone 2G running 3.0 on Meteor Ireland Network
I was trying the last few days to set up MMS for my iPhone 2G on Meteor's network in Ireland. I finally managed to do it a short while ago thanks to a post over at boards.ie.
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Dragnet Online Store Software gets a new update to make admin life even easier
We've had some updates in the past for our online store software but not like this! Following on from my recent post about how to make a great online store we have decided to focus this new release on improving the options available to the store admins to help make their lives easier. After all, the easier we make our tools to use the more offers they will give people like you and me!
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RentacarIreland.co.uk launches new low cost Irish car rental site with Dragnet Systems
Building on the success of RentcarIreland.com a new sister site has been created especially for the UK market. This new site offers Hertz branded rental cars at a lower cost due to saving deals between Rentacar Ireland and Hertz. The new site also brings some new functionality in the form of dynamically updatable site headers, improved email marketing filters and new event guide for what's on in Ireland.
Check out the new site over at RentacarIreland.co.uk and let us know if you manage to drive away with any good deals! (man that's a terrible pun....)
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How do you make a great online store?
We've had such a great success lately with our online store software. Our decision to build our own software from the ground up instead of just buying off the shelf has proved to work hugely in our favour. What's interesting is the angle we took when developing our software. We focused not only on the store customer's user experience but also the our client's experience for managing their store.
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updating iPhone 2G from 2.2 to 3.0
Just like I did previously, I have managed to update my iPhone with the new OS 3.0 software and remain unlocked. Currently you can unlock all iPhones except the new iPhone 3GS (but this should be available in the next few weeks, click here to keep up to date on this on the Dev-Team Blog). Because I am using an old first gen iPhone model it was a really straight forward to update.
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Ballygarvanstonecraft.ie gets closer to release and reddybrek.com gets twitter feed plug in
I have updated my blog with a simple feed showing the latest entries on my Twitter feed. There's also a simple 'Follow Me' link so feel free to add me to get all the latest....er....random thoughts from my head! I would like to update the design used on my site but I haven't the time lately and the current BlogEngine ones are so boring (apart from this one obviously!). If anyone knows where to get new Blog Engine designs please let me know.