Keeping your Website Simple!

If we have one piece of advice to anyone thinking of getting their website re-designed, it is to keep it simple! As simple as possible in fact! . Read More

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Keeping your Website Simple!

By Patrick Bates Friday, 5th March 2010 | 5 comments
Filed under: Web Design.
If we have one piece of advice to anyone thinking of getting their website re-designed, it is to keep it simple! As simple as possible in fact!

Ikea's Recent Facebook Campaign

By Patrick Bates Thursday, 26th November 2009 | 1 comments
Filed under: Social Networking.
Successful use of Social Media is still quite rare, but Swedish furniture company, Ikea, have recently completed a very innovative campaign, according to Social Media website Mashable. The campaign involved promoting the new Ikea store in Malmo. They chose facebook to get people to promote their store for them.

Google Analytics - 3 Great New Features

By Patrick Bates Wednesday, 21st October 2009 | 0 comments
Filed under: Google Analytics.
Google Analytics have launched 3 great new features to help website owners get more understanding of their website visitors.

Irish Businesses Using Twitter

By Patrick Bates Thursday, 1st October 2009 | 0 comments
Filed under: Social Networking.
I recently read a study released by 3 network on "Irish Businesses use of Twitter". The main findings are that:

The Importance of Website Goals

By Patrick Bates Thursday, 27th August 2009 | 0 comments
Filed under: Google Adwords.
The success or otherwise of any areas of your organisation should be quantifiable by some measure. And yet, very few website managers/owners seem to set goals for their website. The companies that do, generally sell online and goals are a vital part of their monthly reporting. But most companies don't set goals and without them it is difficult to get a through measure of how well your website is working and what areas need to be improved on.

Setting up your online business

By Patrick Bates Thursday, 13th August 2009 | 1 comments
Filed under: Web Development.
Judging from the volume of sales calls we have getting here of late, there seems to be a lot of people out there just looking to get their entrepreneurial feet wet! Some have been recently let go, others have had their salaries reduced...whatever the reason many are using this opportunity to get that business idea up and running.

Google and the Wonder Wheel

By Maurice McGrath Thursday, 23rd July 2009 | 0 comments
Filed under: SEO.
When the results come back from a Google search there is now a link called Show Options… which appears in the top-left of the results page. If you click on this, a new left-hand column of options appears.

Facebook Usernames and URLs up for grabs

By Joe Conlon Sunday, 14th June 2009 | 1 comments
Filed under: Social Networking.
Facebook have announced that registered users can now have a more personalised Facebook URL (or username) on their accounts, e.g. www.facebook.com/webtrade. Facebook's idea is to make user profiles much more user friendly to type in, remember, and find.

How Google Adwords Calculates Costs for Pay Per Clicks

By Joe Conlon Friday, 12th June 2009 | 1 comments
Filed under: Google Adwords.
Ever wonder exactly how Google calculates the cost for each click on your Google PPC adverts? Common belief by many people is that it's simply a case of 'The more you bid for a click on a key phrase, then the higher you get listed', in much the same was as an auction where the winner is he who pays most. Not the case with Google!

Website Costs Debunked

By Patrick Bates Wednesday, 13th May 2009 | 2 comments
Filed under: Web Design, Web Development.
Website Design Costs Looking at getting a website designed? Got lots of ideas for the website but haven't got a clue how much it will cost to get the website designed?

Search Engine Optimisation Tips

By Gary Cosgrave Friday, 1st May 2009 | 0 comments
Filed under: SEO.
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) techniques are many and varied but the point of this article is to give an overview of the importance of SEO and to highlight a few quick and simple methods that you should keep in mind when adding web pages to your website.

What makes a good website design

By Patrick Bates Wednesday, 22nd April 2009 | 6 comments
Filed under: Web Design.
Website design is such a subjective area that it is impossible to definitively say what makes a good design or not. However, there are golden rules that must be adhered.

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