The Blog Of An Irish Web Designer

I have been creating quality websites with my web design and web development skills for many years. But having a website is only the beginning. you have to promote your website and get visitors to your website to make it work, and that's what i;m good at! I have been doing this for years so i believe that experience is now on my side!

Follow my blog, as I write about SEO, Google and other search engines. review online services which I use to build and promote websites, and other bits and bobs related to web site design and development, web site promotion and search engine optimisation.

In my blog ill also be touching on ways to monetise a website, and ways to start a website or business online.

May 3, 2010 8:31 pm

News Of Gerry Ryan’s Death Cripples Online Services

gerry-ryan1As news broadcasters told listeners to the news last Friday of the sudden death of Radio and TV presenter Gerry Ryan, the nation (including myself) turned to the Internet looking for more information.

The massive influx of visitors to sites such as RTEToday FM, and Breaking Newscrippled servers. and caused massive congestion.

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May 2, 2010 1:17 pm

FireFox Add-ons For Web Developers, Designers And Marketers

I was putting together a list of good fire fox add-ons for another project i was doing and i thought this might be a good blog post. Now Internet explorer is the thorn in the side of every web designer and developers on this planet, but I don’t think its ever going to go away or even get better. But did you know you can render page using the explorer engine in Fire Fox. Just one of the many addons available in Fire Fox. Mozilla FireFox is the browser of choice for must people who work online. The great thing about Fire Fox is the ability to get addons for it, these are little tools and application which are attached to the browser.

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April 28, 2010 2:04 pm

10 Things You Need To Understand Before getting your website Designed or Developed

10things-ebookcover-largerFree E Book DownloadI have put together this little ebook for those who are considering getting a website designed or developed in the coming months.

10 Things You Need To Understand Before getting your website Designed or Developed

Its a quick fire guide to whats required to get a website up and going and hopefully will give you an insight into what you require for your product or service website.
To get you copy straight away click here enter your name and email address in the form below and click submit.

Post has been update to fix links to download area

November 13, 2008 1:00 pm

An easy way to find out who is linking to your site

I use google alerts for a few things like local news and stuff but this is a great idea to use it to find out when another websites starts linking to yours, it beats waiting for your stats to start showing you and its free.
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October 26, 2008 6:52 pm

Stop Bad Ware issue

Iv been trying to resolve an issue i had with one of my websites in regards to the stop bad ware plugin that is used in firefox and chrome. i noticed the issue when i started using chrome nearly a month ago. and i was getting nowhere until today.

below is a copy of what i posted in the badware google group. but i was directed to a really good website called unmask parasites http://www.unmaskparasites.com

an excellent website for checking if your site or blog is hacked

September 28, 2008 12:58 pm

Tips For Getting Your Video’s Viewed Online

I am working on a website at the moment where i am adding a video on the home page as an introduction to the site. as i was looking around for the best way to integrateit both design and SEO wise i came across these two videos which give a few tips on getting the most out of your videos online. Matthew Scheybeler of http://www.blinkx.com/

September 17, 2008 12:50 pm

Vote Joomla!

Joomla was nominated for the PacktPublishing Best Overall Open Source CMS and Best PHP Open Source CMSawards. I have used joomla on a number of websites of all sizes and i have to say as an open source project it really is one of the best out there, as is the joomlacommunity. If you use Joomla! its time to show your support for the CMS, vote for Joomla for the Best Overall Open Source CMSClick on the links below to vote:

Vote for the Best Overall Open Source CMS

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