Dragnet Systems is pleased to announce a brand new online gardening store for Dunsland Garden Centre owned by T.V. gardening presenter (and upcoming author!) Peter Dowdall.

It's been a while since I've done a little update on the new projects we have on the go at the moment inside in Dragnet so I thought I'd give you a quick sneak peek at what's currently bubbling in our creative studios ;)

As many of you know, we have our own online store software that is currently a huge success for us. We are delighted to be working on not just one but three new online stores that will all be launching in the next few weeks. Some of these new stores will have even more features like allowing wholesalers to order without payments, full stock integration with point of sales systems and more powerful search options so that customers can get around the store even easier! Surprisingly, two of the new stores are gardening themed.

I have been busy myself working on a really big project for the last two months that will be ready to drop sometime in the next two weeks. This new project is for one of the world's largest car rental companies and is designed to help them manage their micro sites better than their current setup. It will offer customers more choice than the existing site and help speed up the booking process - which is something I'm really proud of. This was a really interesting project to work on because it was my first multilingual asp.net site that I've worked on. Over the next few weeks there will be some great posts going up about how to develop multiple language sites (what to watch out for, tips and tricks, etc) and new posts on the new jquery stuff I've learned from doing this new project.

So exciting stuff all round. Everyone inside here is buzzed about this new car rental project as it has huge potential to make some waves for both us and our client. Stay tuned for more info in the next few weeks.

I am working on a project at the moment that requires checkboxes to do animations using jquery. It's all working fine unless I return to the page using the back button. As a work around I decided it would be best to just clear out any checkbox that were already selected. It's not ideal, but it saves me having to fire off an animation on page load which looks very slow as everything else on the page is loading in.

To uncheck all of the checkboxes on your page using jquery all you need to do is use this code:

$().ready(function() {

    //on page load uncheck any ticked checkboxes
    $("input:checkbox:checked").attr("checked", "");
});

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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!!

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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.

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!

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....)

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.