Barrowvale Technology :: One of the Leading Web Design Companies in Ireland

The Barrowvale Store Manager is an advanced internet based e-commerce business solution which allows you to sell your products and services online in a powerful and professional manner. The Barrowvale Store Manager gives you control of a whole range of features on your website, allowing you to manage your online store in an easy and intuitive way.

Barrowvale Store Manager allows users to manage products, shipping, pricing, promotional codes, special offers, product recommendations, online surveys, wedding lists and many more features which are essential for the success of a modern e-commerce presence. One of the key benefits of Barrowvale Store Manager is that it can help you to network with other businesses as you do in the real world opening up new opportunities that would have never been available without the Internet or indeed without Barrowvale Store Manager.

Barrowvale Store Manager comes in a range of options and will suit anything from the smallest to the largest business depending on budget and requirements. Barrowvale Store Manager is fully scaleable and can expand with you as your business grows. This makes Barrowvale Store Manager the best choice for anyone considering a serious e-commerce website on the Internet!

August Feature Product: Barrowvale Booking Manager inc. Video Tour!

See our Video Tour here

The Barrowvale Booking Manager is an advanced internet based accommodation booking management solution which yields real commercial benefit to you and your clients. The Barrowvale Booking Manager will help you plan and implement strategies that help to grow your business and enhance your customer service.

The Barrowvale Booking Manager gives you control of a whole range of booking facilities on your website, allowing you to manage accommodations and bookings online in one simple and easy to use interface. Using this interface, the accommodation provider can manage a whole range of information about their property, from property details to availability, from rates and prices to bookings.

The Barrowvale Booking Manager allows users to search for accommodation using their own criteria, from type of accommodation to group details, from arrival and departure dates to location. Once the criteria are chosen, the Booking Manager will show a list of available accommodations to suit those criteria and allow the users to look at a detailed description and book the accommodation using their preferred payment method.

See our Video Tour here

Matt Dunne upgrades with Barrowvale Property Manager

We were pleased to complete a major revamp of Matt Dunne's website in September. Matt Dunne's site is now driven by the latest version of Barrowvale Property Manager which is faster and easier to use than ever before. Barrowvale Technology Ltd. is the leading supplier of online property applications in Ireland. Other recent auctioneering clients include, Cork Co-operative Marts, JJ O' Brien, House Buyers Network (Cork), Cullen Auctioneers (Laois) and Campion Property (Dublin). You can see Matt Dunne's site at www.mattdunne.ie

First Round Recruiting Completed
Barrowvale Technology Ltd. has now completed it's first round of recruiting experienced sales persons to sell a range of new market-leading Internet and software products developed here at Barrowvale. If you are interested in becoming part of our growing sales in the future, please send your CV and details to us

Oliver Dempsey Travels to Germany

As part of our continued effort to improve value, service and to increase our product range for our customers, Mr. Dempsey travelled to Germany on June 23 to attend the Europartner Conference in Dortmund organised by the German Chamber of Commerce. The purpose of this trip was to meet German and other European companies who have invested considerable sums of money developing new products and services (as we have been doing here at Barrowvale) for businesses throughout Europe. Meeting these companies enabled us to identify new products and services which will be of benefit to businesses in Ireland and to help us to recognise new products which we need to develop in order to improve our customers market presence both on and off the Internet. "It was a very successful trip and I look forward to offering our customers in Ireland a new and improved service as a result", Oliver Dempsey MD, Barrowvale Technology Ltd.

Barrowvale finalists for the Best Industry Award 2007!

Barrowvale Technology were finalists for the Best Industry Award in 2007. There were 3 finalists in this category out of a huge number of top class companies who entered the competition. The other two finalists are Enva Ireland (part of the DCC group) and Manor Stone.

Judges were looking for:-

Factual evidence of quality management processes which have achieved major
results

A clear understanding of how challenges were identified and overcome

Plans to sustain and build on current success

Evidence of an innovative response to market trends.

Sustained growth in manufacturing and diversification in response to market
demands.

Training initiatives designed, developed and implemented in your business

Other categories in the competition were

Best retailer award

Excellence in customer service award

Best licensed premised award

Best local food award

Corporate social responsibility award

Environment award

Health &safety award

Best industry award

Best new business

Well-being in the workplace award

Using Microsoft Photo Editor and Barrowvale Easy Sites

Using Microsoft Photo Editor and Barrowvale Easy Sites

This article describes how to prepare your images using MS Photo Editor and Barrowvale Easy Sites
Scanning
Source
the first thing to check is that you have the correct source i.e. scanner or camera and that it the correct make and model. To do this we go to FILE/SELECT SCANNER SOURCE� Say for example if our scanner is a 1236USB Ultima 2000, then we make sure that this is selected and we click OK.
Scanning
To scan, click the scanner icon on the toolbar or else go to FILE/SCAN IMAGE�
Wait for the scanner window to come up, make sure that you have the resolution and scaling set correctly and then click on PREVIEW.
When the scanner has previewed the image, use your mouse to select the area of the image that you wish to scan and then click SCAN.
If you scan in an image which is a copy of an original photo, it will never look as good as a scan of the original.
Resizing
The image will now be displayed in MS Photo Editor.
You can save the original image if you like by going to FILE/SAVE AS.
For the web we will need to resize the image first to 360 pixels wide and then to 120. Each time you save them, make sure that you put the number of pixels after the name so that you will be able to quickly identify it later.
Printing Images
In Photo editor it is convenient when you are resizing the pixels to have the measurement units set as pixels. You do this by going to VIEW/MEASUREMENT UNITS/PIXELS. However, on some PCs we have noticed that you will not be able to print images unless you set measurement units as inches or centimeters.

Importing and resizing images from digital Camera
Some digital camera software packages can be quite limited in what they can achieve in relation to resizing images or compressing images to optimize them for the Internet. One such package is Ulead Photo Plus. If you are using this package, we recommend that you take in your images from the camera in the normal way and save them on your PC. Then close Ulead Photo Plus and us a package such as MS Photo Editor. Open up the images in MS Photo Editor, resize them first to 360 and then to 120 as described above under Resizing
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Feature Product: Barrowvale Sales Manager

The Barrowvale Sales Manager is an advanced internet based sales management solution which yields real commercial benefit to you and your clients. The Barrowvale Sales Manager will help you plan and implement strategies that help to grow your business and enhance your customer service.

The Barrowvale Sales Manager gives control of a whole range of sales tracking facilities allowing the tracking of enquiries, sales activities and quotations in one simple and easy to use interface.

Using this interface, you can manage a whole range of information about your customers, enquiries, quotations and orders. You can also allocate enquiries and orders to selected Sales Reps and they can view them in their own administration area.

The Barrowvale Sales Manager allows users to produce reports using your own criteria, such as dates, lead values, sales values, referral details etc. Once the criteria are chosen, the Barrowvale Sales Manager will provide customised reports which summarise your sales activities for that period.

Feature Website: Topline Hardware

Barrowvale were pleased to complete the Topline Hardware website in September 2005. The Topline Hardware website is a particularly eye catching site with some beautiful imagery used in a contemporary design. This easy to navigate site also has sections for news & events, store locator, special offers and a member login facility strictly for their own members.

Everyone knows Topline Hardware, Topline is presently Ireland�s leading hardware Buying group, with over 100 strategically positioned independent members located around Ireland. Almost every large town and city in the country has a Topline Hardware store with the familiar Topline logo. Topline say that their members are dedicated to providing the highest standards of friendly customer care, quality products and competitive prices to their customer base. Their network of home-grown leading hardware stores allows Topline to service the complete needs of the construction and related industries in Ireland.

You can see their website here:-
Topline Hardware and DIY Ireland

September 2005

Programmer/Web Developer Wanted

Programmer / Web developer Wanted

We are delighted to announce that Barrowvale Technology have the
position of Programmer / Web developer available and are inviting
suitable candidates to apply for the position.

You can download the Information Document and Application Form by clicking here

Free Barrowvale Seminar in the Gandon Inn

�Understanding how business can benefit from the Internet�

Free seminar taking place
Wednesday 31st August
Conference room in the Gandon Inn 8.00pm

Barrowvale Technology, in association with the Laois County Enterprise Board and with the support of the Laois Chamber of Commerce are holding the above seminar for the benefit of all local businesses and consumers alike.

Case studies on the night will demonstrate using the Internet to promote Solar Energy, Building Consultancy Services, Furniture Products, Information Technology, Retail Display solutions and Irish Crafts

For more details phone Shauna O� Kane on 0502 26113

Why has the Internet been so successful?

The whole secret to the success of the internet has been the ability to share large amounts of information across our telephone lines at amazingly low cost and at incredible speed. Large Companies like Amazon.com were very quick to see the potential of the Internet early on and have established the biggest online book store in the World. Other companies followed suit and now there is quite a sizeable amount of business being carried out on the net. Large businesses in Ireland have already established an internet presence and are developing a strategy. However, small and medium business are slower to get moving.

Is it worth listening to all this excitement or will I just ignore it?

During the seventies and eighties there was a switch from small retail to supermarket outlets. That was a time of huge change for many business people who made the courageous decision to go down that route. It was a risk but it paid off for those who took that risk. Many of the smaller retailers and some of the wholesalers who didn't keep up with the times had to close down. Business has to be careful not to be left behind in this new era and must have an open mind on new techniques.

Will consumers use this new technology?

Do you think that consumers will resist the change to electronic commerce? Maybe they will initially, but look what the banks achieved with cash dispensing machines in the eighties and nineties. Whenever a customer came in to make a withdrawal, they were shown how to do it with the cash dispenser until eventually they could do it on their own without the need for staff. This will happen again and the banks will probably be at the forefront of training consumers how to make cash transfers over the internet. Once consumers gain confidence with moving money over the internet, they will then be in a position to buy online. Consumers will expect goods and services to be available on the net and will demand that traditional companies change.

What are the Strengths of my Business on the Web?

According to a new study from Datamonitor and Microsoft, Jun 20 2000, e-commerce revenues for European SMEs will soar by 800 percent from EUR409 million in 1999 to EUR3.2 billion by 2003. Local businesses should appreciate that they have the huge advantage of a presence on the ground already, the relationship, the thrust and the loyalty that they have built up with their customers down through the years is so important. That relationship that now exists will give SMEs a huge advantage now when they go online. A recent survey by Greenfield online found that clicks and mortar retailers (Retailers with both an Internet and physical presence on the ground) continue to prove most popular with consumers as 43 percent say they are most comfortable shopping at these retailers' sites (compared with purely online retailers) However, it is important not to be complacent about your customers.

What are the Benefits of a Web presence to me?

There are some important considerations that a business should have when deciding whether to go online. It will undoubtedly enhance the perception and the image of the business, but will this lead to increased profits? This is the most important question facing any business. Will it lead to greater market penetration and growth over a wider geographical area or perhaps stabilise a current falling market position. Will it lead to lower staffing and administration costs. Will it lead to lower costs involved in rent, heat and light for the retail display area. It must do some of these things because at the end of the day an internet presence must make more profit for the business.

Does an Internet Strategy suit your company?

The first thing that a company needs, is to identify if the products they are selling can be sold over the internet. One way to work this out is to ask yourself, could a customer ring you over the phone, order the item and ask for it to be delivered or packed for collection. Another question is, if a customer could see a picture or a description of the product or service could they make a decision to buy it there and then. If the answer to either of these questions is yes, then this business has the potential to go online.

What is a Domain Name?

A domain name is a unique name that identifies a company on the Internet. If the company's name was Acme, then they might register their name on the Internet as www.acme.ie. A .ie domain means that the company is registered in Ireland. Only Irish legal entities can register as .ie. The .com domain is an American domain and they are granted purely on a first come first serve basis. If a person was doing business in a specific market they may wish to register a domain in that country e.g. '.co.uk' for United Kingdom or .fr for France.

Do I need to register a Domain Name?

When a company registers their domain name they can then request that their ISP personalise their email address. Their email changes from theirname@theirISP.ie to anything@theirdomain.ie. Registering a domain name on the Internet is the equivalent of registering a business, company or trademark. Similar to registering a company or trademark a domain name is issued on a first come first serve basis. Once registered no one else can use that domain name. If a company or business wants to protect their name, they will register it on the internet. If you consider your name to be valuable and would not like to see it taken by another business, then we would recomend that you register it as a domain name!

E-commerce or Brochure Site?

A business will need to know the difference between an e-commerce and a brochure site and which one they will need. What is an e-commerce site? An e-commerce site is a fully interactive site in which the retailer has their database of goods or services up on their website. Customers can browse through the products or search for specific products. The customer should be able to identify the price and availability of the product. They can then make the decision to order and pay for the product immediately in real time over the internet. A decent e-commerce site would usually cost several thousand euros to develop but for a large retailer this would more than pay for itself if it only saved the wages of one employee.

Brochure Site

An e-commerce site might not be for everybody. Some businesses may only need what's known as a brochure site. Here information and pictures are just sitting there like pages of book with a table of contents at the front. This allows people to see their products or services without the expense of printing the brochure and the customer can browse through the products and order by telephone or email from the comfort of their own home. A brochure site could cost anything from �320 to a couple of thousand euros.

How long will my customers wait?

A business man was talking to his Internet Consultant recently and explained how his Internet strategy was going to cost tens of thousands of euros. It was going to be ready in twelve months time and be one of the biggest e-commerce sites in the country. He explained how he had a huge customer base already and how it was just a matter of showing them how to work the system when it came online. He could do this by having PCs in the shop and the staff would let the customer key in the order themselves. The Internet Consultant paused for a moment and then asked, "but what are you doing now?". The business man seemed puzzled. The consultant explained that while it was fantastic the plans that the businessman had for twelve months time, he needed to be doing something now. While this businessman is busy getting ready for next year, his competitors may already be taking his customers. He hasn't even his domain registered. The important thing for this individual to do, is to immediately get his domain registered and get something, anything up on that website! A picture of one or two of his products or services. Perhaps a mission statement and a signal of his intentions for next year. One page, that's all. A couple of hours work is all it would take and at least now his customers know that he is serious about providing an online service. Now he has the foundation layed, he can start building his new e-commerce site!

Seek Advice

The other important thing is to shop around. Believe it or not, this is as important for domain registration and hosting as it is for webdesign. There are huge differences in the cost of these services and not shopping around could mean paying exorbitantly high prices for the same service. Businesses must ensure also that they are comparing like with like. �255 could be very good value from one company, but could be very bad from another. Likewise, �1270 could be very good value from one company and very bad from another. Seeking professional advice is vital in assessing these issues. Whether a business consults with local government agencies or private Internet companies, the most important thing is to get advice.

Feature product: Barrowvale Store Manager

Feature Product: Barrowvale Help Desk Manager

The Barrowvale Help Desk Manager is an online Help Desk which allows you to track enquiries and requests for help or assistance from your customers or colleagues in one simple and easy to use interface.

Using this interface, you can manage a whole range of information about your customers' and work colleagues' enquiries and requests for help or assistance. You can also allocate help desk tasks to selected help desk representatives and they can view them in their own administration area. Whether it's a product that needs to be delivered, repaired or serviced, or technical support that has been requested on the use of a product, or a service that has been requested, the Barrowvale Help Desk Manager will handle it all.

The Barrowvale Help Desk Manager allows users to produce reports using your own criteria, such as customer details, dates, times, descriptions etc. Once the criteria are chosen, the Barrowvale Sales Manager will provide customised reports which summarise your Help Desk activities for any chosen period.

Barrowvale Help Desk Manager allows you to free up more time from Help Desk Administration and instead increase the time spent making more money from your business!

April 2006

Feature Product: Barrowvale Tracking Manager

Feature Product: Barrowvale Tracking Manager

The Barrowvale Tracking Manager is an advanced internet based visitor tracking solution which yields real commercial benefit to webmasters and their companies websites. The Barrowvale Tracking Manager helps you plan and implement strategies that help to grow your business and enhance your customer service.

The Barrowvale Tracking Manager gives control of a whole range of tracking facilities on any type of website, allowing the tracking of visitors and activities in one simple and easy to use interface.

Using this interface, you can manage a whole range of information about your
visitors, page views, leads, sales and dynamic variables such as products or documents viewed.

The Barrowvale Tracking Manager allows users to produce reports using your own criteria, such as dates, lead values, sales values, referral details etc. Once the criteria are chosen, the Tracking Manager will show a a customised report and email it to you at your chosen interval. Here at Barrowvale, we use the software to benchmark activity on websites before we carry out major marketing campaigns. This allows us quantify the return we are getting for our clients and adjust the marketing budget accordingly.

May 2006

Feature Website: Mercury Developments

Featured Website: Mercury Developments

Learn how an Irish property developer decided to choose Bulgaria as his next project and uses the website as his online brochure. Paul Mitchel from Portarlington in County Laois is constructing an apartment complex in the most popular seaside resort in Bulgaria and on the closest possible site to the sea, only 4 mins walk! The following article was written by Paul Mitchel.

�Having studied foreign property for the past few years I met a top accountant and property expert And asked him where was the best place to invest ,he had no hesitation in recommending Bulgaria. So I picked the top seaside location which is SUNNY BEACH on the BLACK SEA coast. I chose the nearest site I could get to the beach 500 m or 4 mins walk The building is a stylish design with an elegant appearance. It will be a self contained complex with bar, restaurant,gym and beauty salon. It has its own private swimming pool with 5 hydraulic lifts The building will be finished to a very high standard and specifications Building starts in Sept and will be completed by Dec 2007 The prices vary from 47,000 euro to 126,000 EURO but include every cost inc kitchens furniture all fees legal and notary and 20% vat no hidden costs. Mercury Developments intend to get involved in putting property into pension plans which puts you in control of your own future.�

The website is an important backup to other forms of advertising and acts as the online brochure for Mercury Developments. The website features information such as Legalities, Photographs of Area, Apartment plans, Maps of the local area, information about the Bulgaria economy, history and geography, apartment prices, payment & building timeframes.

"Best of luck to Barrowvale and thanks for all your help with the website. You can view our website at Mercury Developments Apartment and Property Developers in Bulgaria or contact us by phone on + 353 (0) 5786 23036", Paul Mitchel M.D., Mercury Developments

June 2006

Barrowvale completes new Linguaphone website

Barrowvale Technology was delighted to be asked by Linguaphone Ireland to redesign their existing e-commerce site and plug in our own powerful e-commerce engine into it.

Their previous e-commerce site had been in existence for 2 years. Linguaphone recognised the experience that Barrowvale had to offer not only because of the advantages of the Barrowvale e-commerce engine but also because of our concentration in the important areas of marketing, conversion rates and customer retention.

Since Linguaphone pioneered the concept of self-study language courses in around 1921, millions of people all over the world have mastered another language with Linguaphone.

Linguaphone have over 500 courses in 33 languages. In addition to books and tapes, they now also offer you an extensive range of services including on-line and CD-Rom.

Barrowvale Technology were delighted to produce a website for Linguaphone fitting of their sparkling reputation and expertise. A large and highly impressive product range provided by Linguaphone made it easy to create this powerful online catalogue. Credit card purchases are processed by the staff at Linguaphone on a daily basis and their customers from all over the world are guaranteed a prompt and efficient service.

Check it out for yourself at www.linguaphone.ie

Barrowvale Attends IPAV Conference 2003
Barrowvale Technology were delighted to be invited to the IPAV Annual Conference again this year. We are one of the leading developers of Internet based property solutions for auctioneers covering Ireland North and South. Click here to see some of the members who visited our stand.

Barrowvale completes the McKeon Stone website

This month we completed the McKeon Stone website. It was indeed a pleasure once again to work on a website that uses the Barrowvale content management tools that just plug seemlessly into the design template. The website is covered with beautiful images of stone that is produced for both practical and decorative purposes and is admired by hundreds of visitors each week.

Since 1950 Mc Keon Stone has been supplying natural stone products to the Irish and European markets.

With their world famous limestone quarry in Threecastles , Kilkenny they extract large limestone blocks using worldclass quarrying technology. At their stone factory in Stradbally, Co Laois they cut and craft the stone to each customer's unique designs.

Almost 50% of their production is exported to the discerning markets of Belgium , Holland and Germany. Barrowvale Technology were very honoured to have been asked to work the company who is widely known as producing "Europes Best Blue Limestone" and we look forward to providing our continued good service to them in the future. For further information, have a look at their website here, www.mckeonstone.ie

Barrowvale begin work on the Systemlink website

This month Barrowvale starts work on what will be one of the most important resources for energy saving solutions on the web. SystemLink has developed a revolutionary new

approach to heating homes, offices and buildings of every size. It offers all the flexibility of zone heating and it does away with complicated motorized valve based systems, so it�s the

easiest system available to design and install.

SystemLink is very efficient. Its ability to take hot water from a number of boilers and boiler types makes any system powerful, flexible and reliable. The basic unit can cater for up to 4

zones. Additional units can be added on to allow SystemLink to take care of large commercial and industrial systems just as easily as it caters for small residential premises. We believe

this will be one of the largest and most complex websites of its kind in the country using Barrowvale's most advanced content management tools developed to date. The site will have

literally hundreds of pages and documents to download devoted to this huge subject.

Barrowvale take on the Keltech Website

This month Barrowvale is delighted to have been asked to take on the design and development of the Keltech Website. Keltech are the leading supplier of Office and Retail Display solutions in Ireland.

Their products are designed and manufactured in Ireland in their modern 4,000 square metre plant. Expert craftsmen combined with high tech computer controlled machinery produces the highest qualiy and excellent value. Expert Help is always available from a qualified design team who use CAD technology to help their customers get the best from their working environment.

In a process which includes design and manufacrure to space planning and fit out they believe attention to detail is vital. Highly qualified designers, experienced craftsmen and modern manufacturing facilities are all vital components in production of the highest quality systems. Individual design takes into account every detail to include effective use of space, storage and cable management through to general ambience and future growth.

This will be one to watch and we believe it will be one of the most advanced B2B websites on the web when it is completed with the latest technology used for customer acquisition and retention.

Barrowvale begins work on Eurotech Underfloor Heating.

This month brought yet more exciting news that Barrowvale were to look after the development of the new website for Eurotech Underfloor Heating. Based in Monaghan, Eurotech were established in 1989 by managing Director, Gerard Duffy.

10 years later, Eurotech had installed over 1,000,000 metres of underfloor heating in Ireland, using the REHAU underfloor heating system.

Eurotech has now established itself as Irelands leading installer of underfloor heating systems and with Barrowvale Technology providing the latest content management tools and some innovative customer acquisition solutions, Eurotech are set to grow and grow.

Barrowvale complete the Harry Brann Auctioneers Website.

Harry Brann Auctioneers are based in Killaloe, Co. Clare and are the probably the best known auctioneers and real estate agents specialising in selling and letting property around Lough Derg.

With over 40 years experience Harry Brann Auctioneers is the longest established estate agent in the area, and their team of professionals offer a unique wealth of local knowledge and expertise in all property matters.

Lough Derg is the largest of the magical River Shannon Lakes. It is an area of remarkable beauty and charm with long abandoned monastic island settlements, cosy coves and magical views of land and lakescape.

Harry Brann auctioneers needed a robust and easy to manage solution to cater for their large portfolio of property on the web. After carrying out a lot of research they eventually made the decision to choose the Barrowvale Property Model.

One of the advantages with the Barrowvale Property Model was that they were able to plug it into their existing website and they have been more than happy with the results. Barrowvale will work to ensure that Harry Brann Auctioneers remain the leading property specialists in the region and the Barrowvale Property Model will help to ensure this also.

Barrowvale completes site for Diskovery Software.

This month Barrowvale were delighted to complete the Diskovery Educational Software e-commerce Website. Diskovery Educational Software is the leading supplier of educational software to schools and homes in Ireland with hundred of software products on offer.

Diskovery's previous e-commerce site was over 2 years old and Barrowvale implemented a fresh look as well as the Barrowvale e-commerce engine which neatly fitted in for immediate results. The results were astonishing and the minute the new site was launched, the sales immediately rolled in with greater numbers of sales than had ever been made before.

This was was a great tribute to the quality of the products on offer at Diskovery and the proven superiority of the Barrowvale e-commerce engine for delivering sales.

You can see the site here www.diskovery.ie

Barrowvale completes the Lifestyle Furniture Website

This month Barrowvale technology completed the Lifestyle Furniture Website. Established in 1997, Lifestyle Furniture has grown to be one of the leading manufacturers on the Irish market for free standing Pine bedroom furniture.

Their focus has always been on the home-furnishing sector with particular emphasis on bedroom, however more recently they have moved into the dining area. They have since invested heavily in plant, machinery and people in order to develop the company further into hardwood products for the bedroom, living and occasional areas for primarily the home and UK market, but they are expanding exporting opportunities as far as North America.

The site was launched in time for the furniture show in Birmingham which is one of the largest shows of its kind in Britain and Lifestyle Furniture were there in force with a huge stand which impressed everyone who saw it. Their website combines a really impressive design with the Barrowvale content management tools to keep their product catalogue always up to date.

You can see the site here www.lifestylefurniture.ie

February 2004 sees the launch of Barrowvale Communicator

Barrowvale Communicator is a powerful and user-friendly tool that allows you to communicate to all your contacts about your products and services both cost effectively and professionally. With Barrowvale Communicator you can send personally customised emails to each of your customers and subscribers in an instant. These emails can be in the form of standard text emails, personalised newsletters, promotions, feature products, special offers and much much more. This means that you no longer have to spend countless frustrating hours creating and sending individual emails to your numerous contacts through traditional email programs like Outlook Express or Microsoft Outlook.

Email addresses can be collected automatically through your website if you are a Barrowvale Technology customer or can be added manually through the Barrowvale Communicator interface. Barrowvale Communicator will help you to convert these contacts into sales and promote your business with a few simple clicks of the mouse. This means that you won't need to spend as much time managing your email and can instead increase the time spent marketing your site and your business. Barrowvale Communicator also automatically removes users who no longer wish to be a member of your mailing list.

This useful product will allow you to integrate email marketing and promotion into your website without having to install any complicated software or without any interference to your new or existing website. Once plugged into your site, Barrowvale Communicator is ready to go. You will not need extensive training to operate it, it couldn't be easier. Barrowvale Communicator will also help you to reduce stationary, printing, postage costs, etc.

Barrowvale complete major revamp of Keltech website

Barrowvale were pleased to complete a major revamp of Ketech's website in November 2004 and have begun an intensive online marketing campaign on their behalf.

Keltech Retail Display solutions are the leading provider of retail display solutions for retail outlets and department stores in Ireland. Keltech provide a range of customised design solutions and ready made products for the retail trade. Designed and manufactured in Ireland in their modern 4,000 square metre plant, expert craftsmen combined with high tech computer controlled machinery produces the highest quality and excellent value.

Keltech provide design and manufacture service, space planning, fit out and ready made products for shop fitters. Individual design takes into account every detail to include effective use of space, storage and cable management through to general ambience and future growth.

You can see Keltech�s site at Keltech Shop Fitting Ireland

Barrowvale are Recruiting
We are no longer receiving application forms for this position. Thanks to all who submitted application forms, there was a great interest in this position. Barrowvale Technology Ltd. advertises posts from time to time in the Leinster Express and Independent on Thursdays. We also make details available on our website.

Case Study: Diskovery Educational Software

Diskovery Educational Software is Ireland's leading supplier of educational software to Irish schools and parents. With over a thousand software products on offer and the growing use of information technology in schools, we needed to update our existing website and chose Barrowvale Technology. Our new site is now fully operational and has been a tremendous help to our business generally. It allows our customers to research our online software catalogue and choose the most appropriate software and licensing through to ordering the selected products for next day delivery.

We also use the website when talking to customers on the phone as it reminds us of the various products in each category and we can instantly quote the many licensing prices as read from the screen.

Our new website also has a facility for us to quickly add new products or delete discontinued products without the need for outside help. The site also automatically adjusts the price of all the sterling products based on today's rate; a facility that saves us money all the time by making sure that we quote the correct price in Euro.

Last, and by no means least, our website has a customer email contact facility (Barrowvale Communicator) that allows us to contact customers with latest offers, news on new releases, updated information or any promotions that we have, all with one click of the mouse.

Barrowvale also have great success in driving traffic to our site, which almost always ends up in very cost effective additional sales. We are very pleased with the cost, backup service and marketing expertise of the Barrowvale team. You can check out our website here, www.diskovery.ie

Written by Ken Wickstone, MD of Diskovery Educational Software.

Barrowvale Announce Barrowvale Tracking Manager

Barrowvale Technology are pleased to announce Barrowvale Tracking Manager. Barrowvale Tracking Manager is a powerful and user friendly tool that allows you to monitor all traffic on your website both cost effectively and professionally. Barrowvale Tracking Manager allows you to increase sales and revenue to your site by tracking the movements of visitors and optimising your site and marketing campaigns based on these results.

This means that you no longer have to spend countless frustrating hours calculating previous performance based on log files and bar charts. This means that you won't need to spend as much time managing your statistics and can instead increase the time spent marketing your site and your business.

This useful product will allow you to integrate visitor and sales tracking into your website without having to install any complicated software or without any interference to your new or existing website. Once plugged into your site, Barrowvale Tracking Manager is ready to go. You will not need extensive training to operate it, it couldn't be easier.

Barrowvale complete Morrissey & Co. Solicitors website

We were pleased to complete Morrissey & Co. Solicitors� website in January 2005. Morrissey & Co. Solicitors� site is now driven by the latest version of Barrowvale Site Manager which is faster and easier to use than ever before.

Morrissey & Co. Solicitors is a Carlow based Law Firm providing a comprehensive range of legal services including Commercial Property, Residential Conveyancing, Hotel & Leisure, Employment Law, Litigation, Family Law, Wills & Probate, Company and Corporate Law.

You can see their website here:-
Morrissey & Co. Solicitors Carlow

Feature Website: PDS Carlow

We were pleased to complete PDS Carlow website in September 2005. The PDS Carlow website is a beautifully designed piece of work, easy to navigate and packed full of useful information for the home or commercial property builder. The website also uses Barrowvale Tracking Manager to monitor traffic on the website and use these statistics to drive more and more traffic to the website.

For those of you thinking of the daunting task of applying for planning permission, building your first house, approaching the council or all of the above, two individuals have fused their skills to bring you a complete design and construction package. Combining the complexity and intrigue of Architecture with the precision and detail of Engineering is precisely what P.D.S. offers.

You can see their website here:-
PDS Carlow Architectural & Engineering Service Ireland

September 2005

Excerpts from an interview...

Better Business in County Laois.
Following are excerpts from an interview with Barrowvale Technology's Managing Director, Oliver Dempsey, in September 2002. The interview was done by Mr. Alan Keogh, Fineline Productions. The purpose of the interview was to discuss the attributes of doing business in Co. Laois (pronounced Leesh).

Tell us about your company Oliver
I run a company called Barrowvale Technology Ltd here in Co. Laois which was set up 3 years ago to satisfy the demand for marketing on the web. We have now moved into the area of software development and have produced a number of Internet products in order to reduce the cost of producing a website and yield real commercial benefits to our clients.

What benefits does Co. Laois have for a company like yours which specializes in Web and Software Development?

1. Central location, we are 1 - 1 � hours from most major centers of population in Ireland.We sell websites and software all over Ireland from Dublin to Cork, from Wexford to Sligo
2. Cost of living and quality of life is better in Co. Laois, which means that we have had no difficulty in attracting employees to our company.
3. Costs of office space, travel, and insurance are all less in Co. Laois. This means that we can provide a higher quality product and service at a lower cost than our competitors based in major urban areas.
4. The support infrastructure and roads are of a very high standard. We can travel to Dublin airport in the same amount of time that it would take someone from South Dublin. Barrowvale Technology has already made business contacts in New Zealand, Germany, Luxembourg and Switzerland and we have just secured two large contracts in California. We will continue to develop these relationships, which will benefit the Irish economy as a whole. Our access to other cities will improve even more when the M7 is completed in the coming years.
5. There is no reason why companies in Co. Laois cannot develop leading products and technologies to take on global markets. Here at Barrowvale we are currently developing software that handles advanced image and photo editing and I believe it will be the first of it's kind in the world.

So what type of companies do you develop websites for Oliver?
We work with companies and organisations from all walks of life who are involved in providing products and services to consumers and other business. We have developed sites for retail, manufacture, distribution, marketing and service industries. We are experienced in a range of website products anything from real-estate to consultancy, from tourism to e-commerce.

Are there any disadvantages for you when many of your customers are scattered around Ireland?
On the contrary, it is an advantage to have customers spread throughout the country and indeed throughout the world since it gives us a better understanding of the needs of a larger segment of the population in local and international markets. It enables us to better assist our customers to market their products and services on the wider national and international market as well as in the local market.

Do you have any new products in the pipeline?
We have developed a product which enables business to update their own website on a regular basis using a standard PC and Internet connection. Until now the website could only be administered by a trained person in the office or by a third party at considerable expense and often with delays in its implementation. However, with this new product any staff member can edit information simply and easily on the company website. Its effect is immediate.

Where would Barrowvale Technology like to be in five years?
In five years time Barrowvale Technology will have further developed our excellent service to our customers. We will continue to work in partnership with our clients; growing their market share, using the Internet to increase their sales and profits and increasing the quality and promptness of their own customer service.

Barrowvale Technology Attend This Years IPAV Conference

Barrowvale Technology attended the recent IPAV Conference which took place in the Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork. Barrowvale Technology were delighted to be invited to this event and in honour of the occasion held a free draw for those attending for a digital camera worth �250. The winner of the draw was Mr. Con Nagle of Global Properties in Co. Cork. Barrowvale Technology would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Mr. Nagle on his win.

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The Barrowvale Property Manager is an advanced internet based property business solution which yields real commercial benefits to clients. The Barrowvale Property Manager will help you plan and implement strategies that help to grow your business and enhance your customer service.

The Barrowvale Property Manager gives you control of a whole range of property features on your website, allowing you to manage property categories and property types, allowing you to decide how you wish to organise your property.

You can view all your properties in a simple easy to use interface that allows you to search for the property you wish to edit.

Once in the property edit screen, you can easily view the property information and make changes in seconds. The property window allows you to edit information such as the Title of Name of the property. You an even choose what order the property will be displayed by changing the sort value. Property type is determined by the values you set in the property types window. Price can be entered in its own field to give more control to your clients when performing searches on your site. The price text section gives you more control to interpret the price, while the bedrooms field is filled in for appropriate properties with bedrooms. The summary text gives the customer a snapshot of information on the property while the description area makes an unlimited amount of detailed information available if required. Thumbnail and Picture browse buttons allow you to upload small and large images from your PC in seconds. Space and Time sections allow you to indicate square footages or time spans for rental property if required.

The Barrowvale Property Manager offers features such as picture display gallery which allows you to upload unlimited internal and external images and maps of your properties. Using the easy to use interface you can choose from hundreds of properties and images to add or edit at will. Just a simple click on the browse button for a thumbnail or picture allows you to upload images from your PC.

A caption allows you and your customers to identify these magnificent images and a simple click of the submit button confirms your changes in seconds.

When a customer wants to look for a property, they simply click on a thumbnail image to view interior and exterior images of the property. A popup window appears which is optimised for speed and ease of use. This easy to use layout means that your customers can view many images in a short space of time and can have much of their homework done on their favourite properties.

Barrowvale Property Manager can offer a built in search facility which allows your customers to search for properties using their preferred criteria. For example they may wish to search for properties in a certain location and in a certain category. Barrowvale Property Manager allows the customer to search for properties in a unique and intuitive way. They can choose the town, the minimum or maximum price. They can choose the number of bedrooms and a host of other choices or they may prefer to view all properties at once. The choice is theirs with this easy to use system.

Once the customer has made their choice, a list of properties is displayed in seconds. The speed and intuitive layout is key to the success of the Barrowvale Property Manager. The customer can scroll up and down and view property summaries and when they see a property they like, it�s just a simple matter of clicking on the property to view the full property details.

Our sites come in a variety of different designs and layouts depending on budget and requirements. Designs can be made to incorporate a map of your region or can feature images of scenic views, heritage sites, amenities or attractions in your local countryside, town or city. Stock photography using images of scenery and models can be used in addition to existing imagery if required. Advice is offered on wording for content and how best to portray your business on the web for maximum effect.

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Name and Legal Form:	Barrowvale Technology Ltd private limited by shares
Place of Registration:	Ireland
Registration Number:	330063
Address of Registered Company:	Jamestown, Ballybrittas, Co. Laois