Latest News & Events

: West Belfast Partnership Board training event 'Starting to Sell Online' 17th November 08 at 6pm will enable new or existing businesses to start selling on the Internet. Topics include choosing the right web designer, delivery and payment options, marketing online.

: PRIME business networking event on Wed 19th November 08 at 9am at the Ramada hotel in Belfast. media mount's owner Jonathan Maxwell is one of the guest speakers at PRIME's business networking event and the topic is 'Website Marketing - Harnessing the power of the Internet'

: Belfast Entrepreneurs Network training event 'Starting to Sell Online' Tuesday 2nd December from 12-4pm

: Singers/songwriters Bap and Brenda Kennedy new website commissioned and will be live early 2009 offering fans the chance to purchase music and merchandise and interact within a Fanzone.

: Bloomfield Primary School will be working with media mount on their new website and brand design.

: Brookhall Historical Farm Cottages based in Lisburn, County Antrim offer x3 self catering cottages in private grounds. Their new website goes live December 09.

: Party Diamonds Diamante t-shirts, underwear etc for Hen Parties and Weddings ecommerce site is now live and within a week is top of Google for business name and 'Diamonte underwear'

: Henry Tibbs.com new e-commerce website selling a range of men's gifts and accessories is now live.

: Build Your Business Image mentoring for Mallusk Enterprise Park

: AJ Stuart ebusiness website commissioned to include their full catalogue of products.

: TeamBuild Ireland is a dynamic new leadership assessment and development organisation, incorporating a high quality
outdoor  pursuits  facility,  based at the renowned  Tullynewbank  Stables,  just outside Glenavy, Lisburn. Their email e-shot went live at the beginning of May and a new website will be live soon

: GPM Trailers launch new website promoting a full range of agricultural and commercial trailers including flatbed trailers, tipping trailers and low loaders.

: Down Royal B&B based in Maze near Lisburn new website goes live. This ten room bed and breakfast is located 5 mins away from Down Royal Racecourse

: Kilwarlin Cottages are two self -catering cottages based in Hillsborough. Their new website shows an animated gallery of these luxury five star cottages.

: Four Seasons Landscapes in Lisburn launches new website to promote the full range of landscaping services available including decking, lawns, fencing etc.

: Aghalee Pharmacy Practice will launce their new at the end of August 08 to promote their range of services. Staff profiles and advice are also displayed on the site.

: Good Cottages launches new website to promote their self catering cottage holiday homes near Lisburn.

: Party Diamonds commissions media mount to create ecommerce website

: Henry Tibbs.com new e-commerce website will sell a range of men's gifts and accessories early Sept 08

: Belfast City Council and Belfast Entrepreneurs Network present "How to Drive Traffic to your Website" delivered by Jonathan Maxwell 24th June 08 @ Ormeau Business Park 18:00 - 20:00

: The Tranquil Rooms based in Holywood, Belfast offers luxurious spa and beauty facilities. Their new website is now online at www.thetranquilrooms.co.uk

: TotallySortedTrips.com is a unique online holiday agent enabling you to choose a packaged holiday trip to Northern Ireland or create your own online.

: The Lisburn Leader Programme helps rural businesses in the Lisburn area increase their IT knowledge via a number of seminars. Jonathan Maxwell will be hosting the ecommerce seminars in 20th May & 10th June 08 at the Lisburn Valley Island Centre. Please contact Deirdre Fitzpatrick if you would like to attend.

: Jacqui Neill Photography website is now live and showcases her talents via online galleries, quick galleries and a fully-automatic gallery creator.

: CAFRE clients websites being updated and optimised including Knockavallen Lodge, Danes Cast Fishery and Sheans Horse Farm

: Lisburn Enterprise Organisation utilised media mount for their Search Engine Optimisation seminar on 15th May at LEO.

: New CAFRE e-commerce seminars take off in Jan/Feb 2008.

- 24 January 2008 - Enniskillen
- 6th February 2008 - Loughry College
- 14th February 2008 - Oak Room, Lisburn Island Centre.

media mount are also providing one-to-one mentoring for over a dozen CAFRE clients during the months of February and March 2008

: E-Commerce and brochure websites have been commissioned early February 2008 and include new versions of websites BannwaterCrafts.co.uk and Chart and Nautical Instrument Trade Association

: Go and Compete is a programme run by Mallusk Enterprise Park. media mount have been hired to provide one-to-one mentoring to participants within the programme over the month of February 08.

: "How to Get Traffic to Your Website" SEO Seminar in Townsend Enterprise Park will take place on 21 January 2008. Learn how to increase quality traffic to your website ... and make visitors into paying cutomers!

: The Eco-Builder.org sustainable building and renewable energy website directory for UK and Ireland now live. Features up-to-date sustainable constructions news and a vast array of categories with contact details of companies who offer products and services in the fields of sustainable construction, energy efficiency and renewable energy.

: The previous 'Learn eBay in a Day' seminar was held on 15th January 2008 in conjuction with SIGNAL in Bangor, County Down for businesses wanting to learn how to sell successfully on Ebay. The seminar was extremely well received and all participants have been awarded the official Ebay University Certificate.

: FireMedShop.co.uk offers health and safety and first aid products to buy online. The site has been completely redeveloped using media mount's e-commerce software and integrates with Protx and PayPal for credit card transactions.

: 'Learn eBay in a Day' seminar was held on 23rd and 30th October in conjuction with Bangor Chamber of Commerce and was well attended with businesses and non-businesses being in attendance. Visit EBayInADay.co.uk for further details of our next seminar and download a PDF flyer

: Celtic Knot Weddings can create a magical wedding for you in Ireland. Their team of wedding planners can plan the wedding of your dreams on the Emerald Isle.

: amcciss ltd is an industrial software company specialising in PLC software design, SCADA/HMI Programming and Data Capture solutions. Their new site will be live in October 2007

: TotallySortedTrips.com is a new holiday and short stay package company for Northern Ireland. The site will enable visitors to create their own unique packages online and should be live by early 2008.

: PROACTIVE Fire Safety provides an unrivalled professional approach to all aspects of fire safety like Fire Risk Assessments and Fire Safety Training. Their new website gives a full overview of the company and allows customers to download training aides.

: Jonathan Maxwell is a guest speaker at Lisburn Leader 'European Rural SME Marketing Awareness Programme" Fri 14th Sept 07 at Lagan Valley Island, Lisburn. The seminar will include other speakers from CAFRE and local rural businesses. Jonathan will speak on the effectiveness of the Internet in promotion and sales of rural businesses, e-marketing costs/benefits, case studies and tips. For more details visit http://www.visitlisburn.com/visitor_attractions/adverts/ or download the flyer here (PDF, 118Kb)

: 'Learn eBay in a Day' seminar will be held on 23rd and 30th October in conjuction with Bangor Chamber of Commerce. Visit EBayInADay.co.uk for further details and download a PDF flyer

: PremiershipGolf.co.uk is now live selling offically licensed Premier League football golf accessories for such teams as Manchester United, Liverpool FC and Arsenal with many more teams to come soon.

: 'Chill out with the coolest entertainment system'. The CoolTone.biz website offers visitors the ability to buy a 'Digital Audio Chiller with iPod/MP3 Docking' online. Also available on eBay.

: Nanabelles Gifts website is now online and offers a full range of Yankee Candles, custom-made gift baskets and other gifts to purchase online. Part of media mount's ECommerce custom-built software this site is our showcase for high search engine placement.

: Todd Chart Agency have launced their new website offering a full range of nautical paper and electronic charts from Admiralty, Imray, Icelandic and more. A new Chart Finder feature allows customers to purchase multiple charts easily online.

: Street Play's website is almost ready to go live and enables visitors to explore the services offered by this Bangor based company : Jonathan Maxwell has delivered the hugely successful "Why can't I find my website on Google?" and "Selling Online ... With or Without a Website" seminars to several agencies including CAFRE, Lisburn Enterprise Organisation and Work West. Centering on how to sell effectively using the Internet topics such as selling on eBay, search engine optimisation and search engine marketing are discussed in details. Contact us today to learn more about our training seminars.

: Streetplay Leisure's child company Sole Sport Surfaces has a new website available to view and use now. It boasts an online 'Spec Builder' and full 3D product catalogue

: 0844call.co.uk offers free international phone calls from your mobile phone. Also if you live in the Republic of Ireland PhoneCard.ie offers cheap international phone cards

: Jonathan Maxwell has been delivering e-commerce and website training seminars in the Diversification Challenge Programme for CAFRE in conjunction with Deidre Fitzpatrick and Associates and Mallusk Enterprise Park. During the first quarter of 2007 he will be in Omagh, Enniskillen, Banbridge and Greenmount campuses for CAFRE. Mentoring will also be given one-on-one with some clients.

: Silverbirch Evangelical Church has commissioned media mount ltd. to create their new website which should go live early 2007

: Jonathan Maxwell, MD of media mount Ltd., is currently offering Start A Business Programme clients one-to-one mentoring. Contact us for further details

: media mount Ltd. Managing Director, Jonathan Maxwell, will be delivering a series of E-Commerce and Search Engine Marketing seminars over the next few months. More news will be posted soon

: GolfClearance.net is now selling Yes! Golf C-Groove Putters including the Callie Forged online along with Adams Golf, Winning Edge Designs headcovers and Champ spikes

: The new version of the Order History 3.0 software is now live. Visit www.orderhistorysoftware.com for full details

: The Dental Studio website is now live. The Dental Studio are a specialist implant, crown and bridge dental laboratory in Northern Ireland. They are an approved dental laboratory for Straumann, Ankylos, Nobel Biocare and 3i - www.dentalstudioireland.com

: GolfClearance.net has recently launched their new website selling discounted golf products to the UK and Ireland

: UUP Alderman Leslie Cree MLA's website is now live and provides an interactive forum for North Down citizens to express their opinions

: JonSai Crafts have recently launched their website and offer handmade items from Thailand including Harry Potter dragons and hand made lamps.

- One of media mount's Enterprise NI clients, Ulster Community Investment Trust Ltd., have recently updated their website using Macromedia Contribute. They provide loans and funds to community organisations in Northern Ireland

The new version of the Order History 3.0 software will go live in February 2006. It enables you to manage your e-commerce orders and customer records effectively online. Import orders directly from Mals E-Commerce Shopping Cart, search and action batches of orders, send emails with attachments, create folders and status to store order information and enable your customers to view their order history and current order status from your own websiteFor a sneak peak look at www.orderhistorysoftware.com

- The Bangor Town Centre Management's website is now live providing information on both Bangor and Holywood in County Down, Northern Ireland. It includes latest news, image gallery, maps and information and a document download section.

- Jonathan Maxwell has been delivering computer and Internet training in the Diversification Challenge Programme for CAFRE in conjunction with Deidre Fitzpatrick and Associates and Mallusk Enterprise Park. Over 2006 he will be in Omagh, Enniskillen, Armagh, Downpatrick and Greenmount campuses for CAFRE.

- The Right Builder (www.therightbuilder.com) is now live and offers the chance for home and commercial property owners to find reliable, recommended, pre-screened building industry professionals within United Kingdom and Ireland. Free for builders and consumers to register online.

- The NDDO Internet seminar "Sell Online ... with or without a website!" was successfully delivered on 5th October 05 with special guest speaker Adam Ewart from Karacha.com. Subjects included selling on eBay, Amazon marketplace, Froogle and PayPal. Further seminars will be announced over the next few months.

- TheInkjetSite.com website live September 2005 and provides a wide range of high-quality compatible inkjet cartridges and environmentally friendly remanufactured printer ink cartridges for use with Epson, HP (Hewlett Packard), Canon and Lexmark brand printers

- TheAva.co.uk has recently launced an online competition where you can win £200 in wine vouchers. Simply visit the Ava's website, join the newsletter and you will be eligble for the prize (see terms and conditions)

- PR Golf's website www.prgolfonline.com now offers online ordering to trade customers. This service will increase to non-trade customers within the next month

- media mount have won the contract to build a website for a local MLA/Alderman. The website should be live October 05

- The Bangor Town Centre Management's website is currently being revamped by media mount and should be live by the end of October 05

- The new version of the Order History 3.0 software will go live in October 2005. For a sneak peak look at www.orderhistorysoftware.com

- media mount award achievments have been recongised by the County Down Spectator in their 26th May 05 edition

- Northern Ireland Open College Network (NIOCN) Special Moderator Award - this first-ever award was given to Jonathan Maxwell in recognition of his work as External Moderator for the NIOCN. The event was held in Belfast Castle on 19th May 2005 and celebrated NIOCN's 10th Anniversary

- Bangor Business Awards 2005 - two of media mount's websites were finalists in the Excellence in the Use of I.T. Award - The Ava Restaurant and Framar Health (Jan De Vries clinic). Held at Clandeboye Lodge on 12th May 2005, the Bangor Business Awards saw several hundred companies attend and over thirty businesses compete for the award categories.

- PR Golf e-business website is now live and allows both trade and visitors to search and view their entire online catalogue. The backend data comes directly from their SAGE Line 50 system and the whole site including category navigation is auto-updated when a new import takes place. Visit www.prgolfonline.com to view the site

- media mount have begun to deliver a series of training courses for businesses and individuals in the North Down and Ards and Belfast area. Please visit our training section for more details

- College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise and Mallusk Enterprise Park have contracted media mount Ltd. to deliver a series of IT workshops within their Enniskillen and Antrim campuses. Over 30 businesses will have training delivered and consultancy provided on a one-to-one basis. To view the Diversification Programme website click here

- Alpha Contract Sales new brochure website is now live and details the company's products and services along with a gallery of work completed

- Bangor Business Award's new website is now live. Boasting online award entries, members section and administration section, this new website will help promote the Bangor Business Awards night on Thursday 12th May 2005.

- The Ava Bar, Restaurant and Off License launched their new website showcasing their facilities with an online event booker, party calculator and table booking online. An E-commerce module is being developed and will soon be added May 05

- DVD-and-Media's new database enabled e-commerce site is curently being developed and will enable the e-commerce website super-success to sell their products more effectively

- Eureka Australiana Books have launched their new e-commerce website. This Australian company sell over 2000 hard-to-find books online and buy second-hand books online.

- The Phone Card Site's website has being revamped and database enabled to offer customers a simple and quick method of searching for phone cards.

- media mount Ltd in partnership with Eurapartner will be beginning an exporting workshop/mentoring service with multiple companies in the Rebuplic of Ireland in the first quarter 2005. The new website for this venture will soon be live

- Dolphin Sea Vegetables will soon be selling their products online including dulse and beauty creams. This E-Commerce enabled website will allow customer from around the world the chance of tasting Northen Ireland's traditional seaside snack along with health and beauty products (dulse is one of our office's favourite speciality foods!). The site will be live Halloween 2004

- Faith For Life, a Northern Ireland based Christian magazine, will soon be offering visitors to their site a chance to download articles from the magazine for a small fee. This will be going live in November 2004

- The Ava website goes live November 2004 with a full online wine ordering system and event calendar. A broadband/Flash version of the website will also be available and future modules will be added

- Miller PC, the UK's premiere MP3 player online retailer, has recently upgraded their backend database to include a fully-functional search facility to their website. The ideal Christmas gift for "young executives"!

- Kuranda Dog Beds will launch their new website in early November 2004. They now sell within the UK and offer the chance for you to buy or part donate a product for a selection of animal shelters

- PR Golf Accessories' full database of products will soon be live on their new website which goes live November 2004. To order a paper catalogue please click on the link

- The Phone Card Site's website is being revamped and database enabled to offer customers a simple and quick method of searching for phone cards. You can purchase phone cards online by visiting the website

- media mount Ltd in partnership with Eurapartner will be beginning an exporting workshop/mentoring service with multiple companies in the Rebuplic of Ireland. Labeled "Grow €ur Business", four groups of approx. 15 businesses per group will be attending throughout the year and also receive one-to-one mentoring in both marketing and IT. In association with the Irish Exporters Association

- Free IT advice is available for all SMEs within Northern Ireland via Enterprise NI's ICT Advisory service. Jonathan Maxwell, Managing Director of media mount Ltd, is the ICT Advisor for North Down, Ards, Castlereagh, Lisburn, Glenwood and Mallusk. Please click here to contact him

- A new website is currently being designed for media mount Ltd and incorporates our new logo!! "Should" be live January 2005

- Kuranda Dog Beds (www.kuranda.com) has been updated to include multiple donation options. You can donate a dog bed to a shelter by visiting their website

- A new website that allows users to search for contractors within their area (UK and Ireland) is currently being created by media mount Ltd. Please check back for further details by end of June 2004

- media mount Ltd will be training a web design company based in Omagh on Active Server Pages (ASP) and database design, beginning at the end of June 2004. For more information on our standard or custom training courses please click here

- DVD-and-Media now utilizes media mount's PHP/MySQL expertise to update E-Commerce webstore which boasts hundreds of products including CD-Rs, DVD-Rs, ink cartridges etc. Visit their website at http://www.dvd-and-media.com

- The new database-driven website for Creative Nail Place aka. Beauty For Nails should be going live at the end of June 2004. Boasting over 1800 products that are updated weekly, this rapidly expanding company based in London are set to increase profits and descrease timescales for updating the website using media mount technology. Click here to visit their current website

- Faith For Life, a Christian magazine publication, have a new website designed by media mount that went live in April 2004. A new subscription and article download section is currently under development and is due to be completed in July 2004. To contact Adam Harbinson (Editor) regarding subscription and availability please email him at editor@faith4life.com

- Niall Kelly, a postgraduate software engineer from Queens University in Belfast, has joined the media mount 'family'. We'd all like to wish him the best and any messages of sympathy ;^) can be emailed to him at niall@mediamount.co.uk

- media mount are now a Microsoft Certified Professional as of 23rd March 2004 and are a Microsoft Office Specialist Expert

- The Annual Bangor Business Awards (ABBA) took place on the 18th March at the Clandeboye Lodge Hotel with over 600 guests attending. Billy Todd of Todd Chart Agency received a runner up award for Best Business Website, designed by media mount, which went live last year. Our congratulations to all the winners and finalists

- Victor Stationery's new web site will be going live June 2004. Based on their new paper catalogue, this database driven web site will let customers login for price lists and print catalogue information. Visit current web site

- TRACE (Tracking Registration And Communication Events) learndirect database is now available to learndirect centres for purchase. To go to the TRACE home page please click here

Training News (For training information please click here or contact us)

- media mount have been providing Home/Office training to both businesses and individuals both in Bangor and Belfast over the past two months.

- Duncan Maxwell Shopfitters Ltd. based in Bangor, N. Ireland, have recently completed media mount's NIOCN accredited Basic Computer Awareness course and will hopefully be going on to the next level, Using Computer Applications course.

- Denis Humphrey Solicitors also located in Bangor, have recently completed a 5 week training session for basic and intermediate PC training. For all training solutions including certificated courses and one-to-one training please go here