Mayo Directory

Mayo.tel – the new way to communicate
Mayo.tel is the mobile phone network of directories for County Mayo, Ireland, linking Mayo businesses, local organisations and communities to the mobile web.

Mayo.tel is optimised for the mobile internet and can be accessed seamlessly by any device connected to the web – mobile phones, smart phones, iPhone, Blackberry, netbook etc.

It is still early days for Mayo.tel as we continue to build and enhance the service.
Try Mayo.tel on your mobile now to see how fast it loads.
Click on a link below to experience your local .tel mobile phone directory.

• Achill
• Ballina
• Ballinrobe
• Belmullet
• Castlebar
• Charlestown
• Crossmolina
• Erris
• Kiltimagh
• Newport
• Westport
• Other Locations

Email if you would like your business or organisation listed for free in one of the local directories.
Mayo.tel - linking Mayo to the mobile web.
Related Sites

• Tel Ireland
• Telnic
• MayoDotTel

.tel on old mobile phones: Test

Link:
http://dialaroomdottel.co.uk/oldmobiles.html

Dot Tel Domains - New Display Features

By Bill Rutherfurd

The new Dot Tel Domain display is a significant change for this top level extension. The new display will be released in March, 2010. I am somewhat positive about the new display design. However, it seems to have drawn its inspiration from Tax Department forms; especially those of New Zealand, a country South-East of Australia.

Telnic is the promoter of Dot Tel. Their timing with the new design is excellent. It was no doubt planned for the month before the domain's first year renewals which are due on 24th March, 2010. The display changes are dramatic, and welcomed. They are the shot in the arm that this internet top level domain extension needed. I mean, who got any pleasure out of showing anyone their Dot Tel with the current display?

Colour customisation will be offered through a series of templates. I do not know the details yet of those templates. The components of the design appear to be square, whereas the old design was curved. I liked the shape of the previous design. It was the drab colour scheme that was the problem. I am ambivalent on colour customisation because I do not know if it will detract from the Dot Tel brand. I favour just one template with a fantastic design to keep the brand strong and recognisable.

Strong and colourful borders are better. Although colours increase the data amount per page, data costs are falling. Perhaps in time, as data costs drop the display will evolve into something that people really love to see.

The Tel logo will be moved to the bottom of the page. This is a shame because it completed the text header for the current web site page. The current design also put the logo right in the user's face when they pulled up the page. It now has a semi-tube or lens-like design. I preferred the previous Tel logo for its simplicity and I think that the change was not required. It will also affect brand recognition as it will sit below the fold of the page on many computers and mobile phones. Perhaps, the logo position will be adjustable.

The VCard is now at the top right of the page. This an improvement because it makes this important feature more accessible, or noticeable than when it was at the bottom right of the page.

Custom icons have been allowed for popular web sites such as LinkedIn, and Facebook. This is an improvement because well known and colourful symbols can now be placed on a Dot Tel page making the page more exciting. The previous display lacked this excitement factor.

The placing of well-known icons on the page improves the perceived quality of that page because they are some of the best known symbols in the world. They give a web page status whether that status is deserved or not. This is a major improvement which adds value to all Dot Tel Domains. There are also new contact type icons.

One thing missing from the new display is the breadcrumb trail that is on the current display. Studies of usability indicate that the breadcrumb is an indispensable part of a web page. I hope this is an error because it is a significant mistake to remove it. It could be at the very top left of the page on the same line as the new management tools. I hope they do not leave it out!

There are two new features which are critical. One is absolutely necessary and that is a way to search the current Dot Tel or all Dot Tels. Top marks here! The other addition is the top-of-the-page management and login functions. If I am not mistaken, this means that the previously roundabout route to managing a domain is gone. Excellent stuff and in the correct position, as is the search box.

Telnic are also introducing Google AdSense on Dot Tels which will be greatly appreciated by owners. It will provide another income stream for Dot Tel owners, and add credibility to the domain extension. Hopefully, it will not involve any third party applications. This is another step in the right direction.

Telnic at long last have done some things right. There are still things to improve. After being available to the public for nearly a year, there are at last grounds for cautious optimism about the future of Dot Tel.

Bill Rutherfurd is an early Dot Tel adopter. He likes the fast access to contact data and information especially on mobile phones. It is also a very cheap web presence. To visit his Lake Taupo Region of New Zealand Dot Tel directory please use the link at http://www.squidoo.com/Taupodottel. He also has a dottel blog at http://www.dottel.blogspot.com.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Bill_Rutherfurd

.TEL demo at Macworld from Name.com on Vimeo.

how to setup google apps with a telnic domain

https://sites.google.com/a/haussmann.tel/how-to-setup-google-apps-with-a-telnic-domain/

.tel Plugin for Confixx

Administrate the .tel-domains directly via Confixx.

1. order tel-domains directly via Confixx
2. administrate tel-domains via Confixx
3. adjust the contents of the tel-domains directly via
the Confixx interface

The .tel-interface of the TELNIC has been critized regulary
in the past. It is known as being complicated and leads to
many queries – especially among technically less versed users.

Minimize your support now and maximize acceptance
of the .tel-domain by use of a self-explanatory interface:
Input is given via a calling card-template – a straight forward
input mask everybody is able to work with.

Via your administrator-access you simply activate this plugin
for every reseller.

Following the order of the domain the reseller
enters the .tel-domain within Confixx, such that the user
can adjust it himself. In order to automatize this process,
you can use the Confixx automatization API.

Source link:
http://webhoster-plugins.de/en/tel_plugin.php
.

Solution for planned new .tel directories and their subdomain names:

I figured out, that there are two ways to create .tel subdomains:

1) The classic way:

mycompany.tel
Section Folder
----- section01.mycompany.tel
>Category Folder
---------- category.section01.mycompany.tel


2.) The new method, I discovered:

mycompany.tel
Section Folder01
>Category Folder
----- category01.mycompany.tel

Section Folder02
>Category Folder
----- category02.mycompany.tel

Section Folder03
>Category Folder
----- category03.mycompany.tel

Section Folder04
>Category Folder
----- category04.mycompany.tel

Respectively:
mycompany.tel
Section Folder
>Category Folder
----- category.mycompany.tel

For example, if you where renting a subdomain to a other company, it might be instead of:

---------- category.section01.mycompany.tel
Respectively
---------- teslamotors.cars.mycompany.tel

It would be:
----- category.mycompany.tel
Respectively
----- teslamotors.mycompany.tel

(Of course you can skipp the need for a section folder, if you choose a smart domain name. Example:
Category Folder
----- teslamotors.greensupercars.tel)


With method "2.)" we have to concentrate more, and move the subdomains to category folders, but can do without subsubdomains, and only have subdomains, which are rather short and memorable .tel names (good for company directories).

Method "2.)", became only possible, since we are capable to move folders, to other folders or subfolders.
Here, our folder section of the control panel just gets longer, and there are no subsubfolders, if we don't want to have them.
Instead of having a subsubdomain, we put a subdomain-folder within a other subdomain-folder, to create the same classic folder structure, and keep all subdomain names short.

Before that, we could only work with method "1.)", which gave us long names for subdomains, such as
---------- category.section01.mycompany.tel
Or
---------- subcategory.category.section01.mycompany.tel

Conclusion:
What we still will have, and need, is a structure of subfolders, subsubfolders and subsubsubfolders, etc., and wich enable a smart navigation.
But what we can have now, are short subdomain names, with only one sub-name.
Furthermore, we are able to see all of our subdomains in the folder section of the control panel, without navigating and drilling through folders. We will have to find our subdomains by alphabetic search.

Short strings instead of long strings.

Another example for how to create new .tel directories and their subdomain names (please post your feedback comment, here in this thread, thanks):

No long domain name strings anymore, but we keep the classic folder tree system, for navigating:

We keep the same folder-trees-structure.

But instead of such long strings as for example:
parrysguesthouse.bedford.bedfordshire.england.dial aroom.tel,
respectively (classic strings):
england.dialaroom.tel
bedfordshire.england.dialaroom.tel
bedford.bedfordshire.england.dialaroom.tel
parrysguesthouse.bedford.bedfordshire.england.dial aroom.tel
It would be (no long strings):
england.dialaroom.tel
bedfordshire.dialaroom.tel
bedford.dialaroom.tel
parrysguesthouse.dialaroom.tel

And so, you could dial each of these domain names individually, and see its folder content, like in a classic .tel.

It would be about creating only subdomains (not subsubdomains, or subsubsubdomains), and then moving them to the right place, within the folder tree:

For example, you would have to create the folder/subdomain "bedford" as a direct subdomain of the main domain (bedford.dialaroom.tel), in the folder secton of your control panel, this way:
dialaroom.tel
>bedford
(bedford.dialaroom.tel)
and then move it within the folder tree to its propper position. That is a "hand job", because there is no string, that would be able to place it there for you:

dialaroom.tel
--england
----bedfordshire
-------bedford X
----------parrysguesthouse
.
And so;
bedford.dialaroom.tel
is a subfolder of:
bedfordshire.dialaroom.tel,
but only in the folder structure, not as a string.

And to find parrysguesthouse in bedfordshire, you could still navigate through the classic subfolder tree:

dialaroom.tel
--england
----bedfordshire
-------bedford
----------parrysguesthouse

And, if you dial for example:
bedfordshire.dialaroom.tel
then it would show you:
parrysguesthouse in bedford:

----bedfordshire.dialaroom.tel
-------bedford
----------parrysguesthouse

Conclusion:
All your subdomain names are shorter and more useful.
And you can view them all on one sight, at the folders section of the control panel (alphabetic order).

The only con:
You have more work, and the method can lead to mistakes, if you are not very precise and careful. But the end result is better. And if you get used to working that way, it will be childs play, peanuts.

Once you brought all names in positon of the folder tree, you would not need such a long string, such as:
bedford.bedfordshire.england.dialaroom.tel
As "bedford" can be found with:
bedford.dialaroom.tel,
and will show all its folder content (all houses and rooms available, in bedford, bedfordshire, england).



Example for procedure:

Creating folders for subfolder „Living in Geneva“.

Create within folder section of dashboard, and note on separate document:
living-in-geneva.schiesser.tel
rent-geneva.schiesser.tel
lease-termination-geneva.schiesser.tel
telephone-geneva.schiesser.tel
tele-radio-geneva.schiesser.tel
la-poste-geneva.schiesser.tel
markets-geneva.schiesser.tel

Moving folders:
Move this way:

Go to folder „schiesser.tel“

Move: „rent-geneva“ to „living-in-geneva“.
Move: „lease-termination-geneva“ to „living-in-geneva“.
Move: „telephone-geneva“ to „living-in-geneva“.

And also the other folders.
By simply ticking the box, and moving them to the relevant subdomain folder.

Result:
http://living-in-geneva.schiesser.tel/