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How’s this for a beautiful piece of work, recorded by Google Streetview at the Larne Road / Belfast Road roundabout, near Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland?

[ Click the "View Larger Map" link to view the surrounding area. ]

Well done, to whoever was responsible!

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When setting up a new web site for a client, we often need to register a domain name (i.e. the address used for their web site and emails) on their behalf and one of the most common questions we are asked is “What domain name should I register?”

It is very important to choose the right domain name, as you may have to live with it for years and even decades.  Your domain name should be memorable, easily conveyed verbally and meaningful.  Here’s some brief guidelines to help you choose your ideal domain name.

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Plusnet, our recommended Broadband Supplier for Northern Ireland and rest of the UK, have lauched a new package - Plusnet Value - for only £5.99* per month.  If you want to surf the web, stream videos online, play games over broadband, and download large emails, music files and movies, this is the option for you. You also get a Free wireless 4-port router to wirelessly connect up to 10 devices!

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.tel is a new innovative domain now launched - instead of web site content, .tel is all about providing contact details.

The .tel enables you to store, update and publish all your contact information, web links and keywords directly on the internet under your own unique domain name. Simple, fast and accessible from any device (PC or mobile phone), .tel provides a new internet standard to take full control over how and where people reach you. It is a wonderful way to be reachable by friends or customers alike with unprecendented ease-of-use.

Read more details on how Red Rhino can help you register and buy a .tel domain name.

Ecommerce offers a new media channel for new sales and advantages over traditional trading methods. Low overheads and 24/7 access offers reduced costs and therefore increased profits. Whether you are in Northern Ireland, London or Timbuktu, if you have an online ecommerce store with integrated shopping cart you can sell to the world!

The Red Rhino Shopping Cart is our ecommerce solution that includes everything you need to start, run, promote and profit from your online store. It offers a comprehensive management interface to make it easy to set-up products and manage orders. Our cart creates search engine friendly web pages and provides you with the tools to market your products to your customer base, for example using voucher codes and gift certificates.

Outline Features

• Professionally Designed Store
• Multiple Marketing and Store Promotion
• Advanced Product Variations
• Extensive Management, Analytics and Reporting
• Multiple Payment Methods
• Content Management System
• Built-In Inventory Tracking
• Search Engine Friendly

To see the Red Rhino Cart in action, view our demo store and then contact us for more details and costs.

Online Christmas shopping can be economical, convenient, and no less safe than shopping in a high street shop or store. Here’s some tips on how to help keep your online shopping experience a safe one, at all times of the year!

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If you are a web site designer in Northern Ireland and available for freelance work, drop us a line, as we’re always on the look out for skilled and customer-orientated NI website designers to add to the list of talented freelancers we use from time-to-time. Please include details of your skillset, with examples of web sites which you’ve designed (including information on your input into the web design projects) along with level of availibility.

About Red Rhino

Red Rhino is based in Northern Ireland but the nature of the Internet means that web design work can readily be done from wherever in the World. We have clients for our various services on four continents and we don’t let a few extra miles come between our clients and a great service. Providing clients speak English, as we do not pretend to be linguists, we would be delighted to be commissioned to realaise the online ambitions of any organisation. Read more about what we offer …

As more and more ecommerce stores come online, the days of online shopping seeming a novelty are long gone. If only stores would follow the lead of the Dutch retailing chain Hema, it might feel exciting again. This major European department store chain has cooked up a brilliant animation involving an array of its products as a way of promoting its online store.

Take a look at this marketing campaign from Hema. You can’t order anything and it’s in Dutch but don’t click on any of the products pictured, just wait and see what happens … and be sure you have your sound turned up.

This company has a great sense of humour, a innovative marketing department and an accomplished web designer!

http://producten.hema.nl

Email is a great tool but its all to easy to let it dominate your working day or personal time. With so many emails arriving in you ‘inbox’, sooner than later you could become overwhelmed by the volume of messages received every day.

Here’s 10 few tips we practice which you may wish to consider implementing.

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Red Rhino is tremendously grateful to the support of the local and wider community in which we operate and we recognise that our success as a company cannot take place without their support and ongoing business. Red Rhino also appreciates and respects the valuable work that not-for-profit organisations make to the local community. We believe that a meaningful way to say “Thank you” to our local communities is by offering to share our accumulated knowledge for no charge, in an effort to raise their profile online.

Therefore, we are pleased to offer free domain registration, free web hosting and free web site design to deserving organisations. Read more

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