http://dotwebs.com/blog Dotwebs stuff and more Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:48:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/hosting-headaches-and-why-you-need-to-stay-in-control/ http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/hosting-headaches-and-why-you-need-to-stay-in-control/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:48:15 +0000 Dorothy http://dotwebs.com/blog/?p=1732 Your client wants to work with you but is happy to use their existing hosting provider. Fine. You ask them for the FTP and/or control panel access. They don’t have a clue what that is, so you explain and then they go off  to look for it. Days or weeks later, they send you a copy [...]]]> http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/hosting-headaches-and-why-you-need-to-stay-in-control/feed/ 0 http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/new-website-arc-accident-repair-centre/ http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/new-website-arc-accident-repair-centre/#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:49:50 +0000 Dorothy http://dotwebs.com/blog/?p=1725 Announcing the arrival of brand new website for ARC Accident Repair Centre, Ireland's premier accident repair centre.]]> http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/new-website-arc-accident-repair-centre/feed/ 0 http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/new-website-jonathan-ryan-actor-and-voice-over/ http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/new-website-jonathan-ryan-actor-and-voice-over/#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:34:35 +0000 Dorothy http://dotwebs.com/blog/?p=1717 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.]]> http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/new-website-jonathan-ryan-actor-and-voice-over/feed/ 0 http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/excuse-me-while-i-take-a-slash/ http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/excuse-me-while-i-take-a-slash/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:56:03 +0000 Dorothy http://dotwebs.com/blog/?p=1694 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, [...]]]> http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/excuse-me-while-i-take-a-slash/feed/ 0 http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/the-write-stuff/ http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/the-write-stuff/#comments Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:05:49 +0000 Dorothy http://dotwebs.com/blog/?p=1676 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.]]> http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/the-write-stuff/feed/ 0 http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/new-website-the-dublin-counselling-therapy-centre/ http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/new-website-the-dublin-counselling-therapy-centre/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:09:39 +0000 Dorothy http://dotwebs.com/blog/?p=1653 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.]]> http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/new-website-the-dublin-counselling-therapy-centre/feed/ 0 http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/website-re-design-lord-consulting-engineers/ http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/website-re-design-lord-consulting-engineers/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:02:17 +0000 Dorothy http://dotwebs.com/blog/?p=1648 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.]]> http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/website-re-design-lord-consulting-engineers/feed/ 0 http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/ie6-till-2014-do-us-part/ http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/ie6-till-2014-do-us-part/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:45:41 +0000 Dorothy http://dotwebs.com/blog/?p=1461 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 [...]]]> http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/ie6-till-2014-do-us-part/feed/ 2 http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/web-useability-captchas-the-imagination/ http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/web-useability-captchas-the-imagination/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:46:14 +0000 Dorothy http://dotwebs.com/blog/?p=1582 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.]]> http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/web-useability-captchas-the-imagination/feed/ 2 http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/5-really-sexy-plug-ins-for-wordpress/ http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/5-really-sexy-plug-ins-for-wordpress/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:43:27 +0000 Dorothy http://dotwebs.com/blog/?p=1356 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.]]> http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/5-really-sexy-plug-ins-for-wordpress/feed/ 0