Next Horizons Total eCommerce Solution!

An eCommerce solution bundled with online marking can become a sales force on a 24/7 basis to potential customers. An eCommerce web site is just as essential to any business as a telephone or fax machine. The main benefit of an eCommerce web site is to create online sales and marketing channel, where your current sales force can not currently go.

To view a demo of our ecommerce web solution, click here.

Why Next Horizon?
As a business owner or business decision maker, your focus should be to strengthen your core offerings and better serve your customers. You don't have the time or desire to deal with the mechanics of building and maintaining a web site and an online store. And you shouldn't have to. At Next Horizon a Orlando web site design and development company, we have a team of well adept designers and programmers who can work with you in developing a successful eCommerce web site design and marketing strategy that will complement your existing business and increase your sales.

Some of the features of our shopping cart include:

• Shipping weight (Shipping & Handling) can be automatically added to each shipping calculation.
• SSL Encryption - The highest Internet standard for website security and e-commerce.
• Secured, password protected administration area.
• MS SQL Server database - best in reliability, stability, and speed (MS Access Database is also supported).
• Ability to run a "Registered Members Only" online store that requires all customers to register, before being able to view products and shop.
• Generate Coupons which you can use to advertise special discounts.
• Product Discounting - encourages people to buy more!
• Integrates with your existing or new merchant account to process credit cards online.
• Supports PayPal payment services.
• Process payments at time of sale with a merchant account.
• Complete, easy to use, web-based Control Panel - allows you to fully manage EVERY aspect of your ENTIRE store.
• View & process orders quickly online.

To view a demo of this powerful solution, click here.

Of course the best feature of all, Next Horizon can customize any of these features or even add features to meet your needs.

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Web Design Department

  Hurricane Charley

Small and medium size businesses are competing harder and applying more intelligent work methods. That means more reliance on technology and greater dependence on our servers and networks for critical information and day-to-day operations. During Hurricane Charily Next Horizon was one of the only, Orlando based non-collocated, application/web hosting companies to stay up through the level 4 storm. Next Horizon suffered minor damage to the physical building and had only a minor outage due to circuit related issues. These issues were quickly repaired by our Engineers within an hour. Next Horizon lost power off and on during the storm, but yet we succeeded in staying online. APC’s state of the art battery backup infrastructure system protected our servers throughout the storm, even during a 3 hour outage.

Companies cannot afford to fall behind because of power problems that cause keyboard lock-ups, hardware degradation, damaged motherboards and other failures. Forty-eight percent of all data loss instances have been attributed to power spikes, outages, or brownouts. You need backup protection for a variety of systems and skilled Technical support to keep your business running.

APC’s solutions can protect your hardware and mission-critical data from damage, plus deliver battery back up for extra runtime so you can work through brief power outages or save data and shut down safely during extended power outages. It is time to check your batteries in your current systems. Check your APC documentation on battery replacement schedules. Next Horizon is an APC authorized/Certified reseller with certified APC Power StruXure™ Technicians on staff. If you need a redundant power solution for your Servers, Telecom equipment, or workstations contact us today.

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Networking Department

  Windows XP Service Pack 2

Introducing Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies.

Service Packs offer convenient, all-in-one access to the most up-to-date drivers, tools, security enhancements, and other critical updates.

The latest service pack for Windows XP—Service Pack 2—is all about security improvements, and it's one of the most important service packs ever released.

What makes Service Pack 2 so important?

• Improved Internet Web browsing and communication with new technologies designed to reduce unwanted content and downloads.
• New security tools engineered expressly for Windows XP, so the process of managing security settings and staying up to date is less confusing and time-consuming.
• Support for the latest computing experiences—whether you're a gamer, mobile user, or digital media enthusiast.

Specifically, how does Service Pack 2 help secure my PC?
When you install Service Pack 2 on your Windows XP-based PC, you can feel confident that you're running the most secure Windows operating system available. You'll be supported by innovative features and default safeguards that will increase your overall security levels significantly.

Help protect your PC with Windows Firewall. Turned on by default, the new, built-in Windows Firewall helps defend your PC against viruses and intruders who try to access your computer over the Internet.

Block distracting pop-ups in Microsoft Internet Explorer. Now you can stop most browser windows that Web sites pop up without your permission, giving you more control and less interruption when you're browsing the Web.

Avoid harmful communications with improvements to Outlook Express. E-mail is a great way to share photos, links to interesting articles, and other attachments. But some attachments contain viruses that wreak havoc on your system. Outlook Express now supports a new Attachment Manager which isolates attachments as you open them. This prevents the opening of unsafe attachments which can infect your system with a virus or worm.

Automatically keep your PC up-to-date with the Windows XP Automatic Updates feature.With Automatic Updates, Windows routinely checks for updates that can help protect your computer against the latest viruses and other security threats. These high-priority updates are available through the Windows Update Web site and include security updates, critical updates, and service packs.

As soon as you install Service Pack 2 you will be prompted to turn on Automatic Updates. After you turn it on you won't have to search for updates online or worry that critical updates might be missing. Windows automatically downloads and installs them for you, using a schedule that you determine. If you prefer to download and install updates yourself, you can also set up Automatic Updates to notify you whenever any high-priority updates become available.

Next Horizon’s Network Engineers are suggesting companies to receive consulting from your contracted IT Company before installing Windows XP Service Pack 2. If you do not have a contracted IT Company, Next Horizon would be more then willing to provide you with information about our Computer Networking Services. The information above was provided by Microsoft to view the article fully please point your web browser to: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/overview.mspx

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Networking Department

  Online Marketing

With Online Marketing more and more companies come alive on the internet, it is vastly important to be ranked the highest possible on search engines. We at Next Horizon have developed formulas to make your ranking higher, for example, your company needs a web design firm, you as a client wouldn't search for "web design firm" you would search for "Orlando web design companies, Orlando web design, Orlando Florida web design, or Orlando Florida web designs". By optimizing your web site for search engines, your pictures and your text will be more relevant for what you want people to search for, therefore allowing the search engines to rank you higher. We can evaluate your needs and provide you with an Internet marketable solution.

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