Announcing the arrival of brand new website for ARC Accident Repair Centre, Ireland’s premier accident repair centre.

Launched in December ‘09, the new website for Actor and Voice-over Jonathan Ryan, one of Ireland’s most experienced and Versatile Voice Over Artists.

I absolutely love this. World Wide Web founder, Tim Berners Lee recently admitted at a symposium in Washington that the forward slashes in http addresses are completely unnecessary and the decision to include them was made on a whim.
Now I don’t feel quite so bad about all those stupid, stupid filenames that, let’s face it, [...]

Content is King! Of course it is. What is the point in having a website for your business if the content is poor and doesn’t relate your products or services well? So many business owners get caught up with how their site will look, and if it will be listed on the first page of the search engines.

New website goes live this month for The Dublin Counselling & Therapy Centre. The centre provides accredited professional counselling and psychotherapy to those suffering from personal, family and social distress.

We wish Paul and the team the best of luck with their new website.

Website makeover for Lord Consulting Engineers goes live. The new website showcases the company’s mining and consulting projects in Africa and Central Asia.

We wish Patrick and the team the all the best with their new website.

Microsoft recently announced on their blog that they will continue to support their now 8-year-old  browser IE6 until 2014.
For readers unfamiliar with the reasons why this might be news-worthy,  it is mainly because we web designers have wasted half our lives trying to get our client’s websites to display correctly in this antiquated browser and [...]

This week I spent a while looking at captcha scripts with the purpose of finding the ultimate one that will both be secure and user-friendly. I am regularly called upon by him indoors, who could be described as a ‘typical user’, to explain why forms won’t submit for him. To me, the process is straight-forward, but to the ‘typical user’ it’s not always obvious and I have had to save both the online transaction and the actual computer from the wrath of his anger.

Recently we listed what we think are the 5 most essential plug-ins for WordPress, and 5 Useful but not essential ones. Today’s round up is a list of the ones we think are the sexiest.

I hear a lot of talk on Twitter and the bloggosphere about rendering issues in IE6 * and in my experience the most common one is the double margin problem.

In my previous post 5 Essential Plug-ins for WordPress I listed some pretty basic ones that I wouldn’t put a WP site live without. This next round-up is a list of useful but not really essential plug-ins.

WordPress is the most widely used publising platforms available.  While it is fully functional straight out-of-the-box, there are a number of essential plug-ins that will greatly improve your blogging experience.
WordPress plug-ins are very easy to install and with a large community of developers working with and using WordPress you will find a plug-in to perform [...]

If you don’t have an account with Paypal and you checkout using your credit card, you will probably have no problems. If you have an account with Paypal and you login you may not have any problems, but if you get too confident and start using it all over the shop (’scuse the pun) you will run into problems.

Attention Web Designers and Developers!
I am currently researching Content Management Systems in terms of ease of installation, customisation, availability of plugins/add-ons and end user-friendliness
(is this even a word?).  I would really appreciate your help with this.

I will be publishing my findings here and contributions I receive will be featured and linked so if [...]

Using social media web sites to promote your business is a cost-effective way to market your products or services. However, it is not easy to see how your business can benefit from it when you look at these sites and all you see is people talking rubbish to each other.

The traditional Irish music label, Claddagh Records have launched their new online ordering website. Claddagh has access to more traditional Irish music than any other company, and will send it anywhere in the world! Use the code ‘claddaghlaunch’ at the checkout to received a 15% discount for a limited time.

Ever needed to drill a hole in hardened porcelain or glass? No? Me neither – not yet anyway. But when I do I know were to go to get the drill bit! Phoenix Distribution have launched a new company website www.phoenixdistribution.ie and sister site www.drillporcelaintiles.com.

My previous post,  Mills & Boon-style has secured me a free ticket to the
IIA (Irish Internet Association) Congress ‘09 later this week. The article was written in response to a competition for tickets on the IIA blog.

The theme this year is:
Better Business Online in a Tough Economy:
Money, Marketing, Monitoring & Mobile
Will be back to talk [...]

Ambrose sat motionless, staring at the screen in front of him. He couldn’t quite believe what was slowly unfolding before his eyes.  Slowly, because he was, unfortunately, still on dial-up – even though he’d promised himself that he would find a broadband provider as soon as she… well, he couldn’t contemplate thinking about that now.  [...]

If you’ve used  Flash and DHTML on the same page may have come across this problem. In most browsers Flash will always display above other layers. So if you have have a CSS drop-down menu or pop-up lightbox image gallery, you will find the Flash element obscures your DHTML layer.
The Solution
You will need to add [...]

You may know your products or services like the back of your hand but does your website describe what you do well enough for potential customers to want to contact you? Having an informative website allows you to communicate your message to a much wider audience as well as enabling you to instantly provide updated information about your products or services to your existing customer base.

Announcing the arrival of a new website for Interpac – Global Packaging Specialists. Interpac deal in a wide range of UN and non-UN approved packaging for chemical, pharmaceutical and hazardous products & waste.

Anyone using Dreamweaver CS3 to create Spry horizonal menus will discover that they don’t display correctly in Internet Explorer.  There is a simple fix for this. In the CSS file add a width to the submenu style – around line 42:

ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
{
width: 250px;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
z-index: [...]

I love the idea behind the ideas Campaign!  It’s terrific – stop whinging and start acting – send in your ideas on how to solve Ireland’s economic problems.
I had an idea I wanted to share so I went over there to submit it and was dismayed to find that the website uses a third party [...]

THE potential offered by the Internet to the business owner is enormous. If you have a product or service to sell, you need a successful online presence. This means more than just getting the company website up-and-running – it means using the internet to market directly to consumers.

Why are we so reticent when it comes to discussing money? Clients will send out request for proposals looking for the sun, moon and stars but give no indication as to how much they have to spend.

Announcing the arrival of enneagrameurope.com – a new website for Enneagram Business Network Europe.
The Enneagram is a highly sophisticated system of nine personality profiles. The profiles are arranged on a nine point diagram and no profile is better than the others.

Barry Ahern of Enneagram Ireland sees the Enneagram as:
the cutting edge tool for the development [...]

Now here’s a great idea from lookandtaste.com .  I gave up ironing about three years ago, so I think I’ll try this just to make it feel loved again…

You may have heard Ryan Tubridy’s show yesterday morning on RTE 1 in which he discussed blogging with Damian Mulley of mulley.net and Suzy Byrne of mamanpoulet.com.
Ryan referred to blogging as ramblings or rants by unqualified, vain, attention-seeking often cowardly individuals writing ‘unsolicited waffle’ who should instead be discussing these issues with their friends in [...]

It gives me great pleasure to announce the arrival of rollingball.ie.
RollingBall supply rehabilitation equipment designed to aid in the rehabilitation of neurological patients following stroke, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, as well as patients with multiple sclerosis or other neurological diseases and injuries.

Coiscéim Eile
Joan Ryan and her daughter were involved in a serious car [...]

Robot © Jack Ryan

When unemployment figures are at an all time high, it is reassuring to read that Microsoft are busy working on virtual replacements capable of multi-tasking for those who still have jobs.
Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft, during a discussion about why Microsoft continues to invest in research and innovation [...]

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Have you ever tried to migrate data from MS Access to MySQL?
It should be straight-forward enough. Export to Excel, then save as CSV, import to MySQL.  You will probably need to customise the format of some fields such as date or currency. Checking that all the data has slipped nicely into the correct fields takes [...]

Recently I’ve been side-tracked by some unusual events in my life.   There was my first visit to the high court, swiftly followed by my first visit to a creditors meeting -  but that’s a story for another day. ..
So distracted was I that I missed the publication of my guest posting on Joe Scanlon’s  – [...]

My post yesterday must have upset Twitter…

Someone suggested to me that joining twitter is good for business.  So I did…

It’s completely insane! You ‘follow’ people, they ‘follow’ you. People ‘tweet’ stupid stuff about themselves:
‘I have a headache’, ‘I’m on the bus’, ‘I hate the rain’,  ‘I’m eating a kebab’,  ‘I love my new coffee machine’, ‘nn now’
So how is this good [...]

Dotwebs are please to announce the arrival of a brand new website for Mythic Links.
Mythic Links aims to bring the work of artists, scholars, historians, philosophers, archaeologists and other authentic sources to a general audience in an accessible way.
Events are held in the Arts Club, 3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2. Visit mythiclinks.com for a [...]

Well it does if you are designing websites.  The important thing to bear in mind is your audience.  According to this w3schools.com report on browser statistics for January 2008  the  trend is that more and more people have their screen size set to 1024×768 pixels or greater with 48% viewing on 1024×768 and 38% [...]

Wednesday’s  poll produced some interesting results. The poll was set up to find out if Cork bloggers are in fact taking over the Internet.
All Irish bloggers were invited to take part but only a fraction of visitors over the three days used their vote.

56%  of  visitors  over the last three days were from Cork and [...]

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