R & R Musical Society – WordPress Site Launch
Another week has rolled around and with it the launch of another WordPress site. The Rathmines and Rathgar Musical Society are celebrating their centenary this year and so they wanted to give their site a bit of an overhaul and to add in some new functionality to mark 100 years of theatrical performances. In essence the needs for the site were simple enough - promote upcoming shows and be the online hub for info about the R & R Musical ...
Best WordPress Mailing List Plugin
"The money is in the list!" - I'm sure you've heard that old chestnut before, and, there is a heck of a lot of truth in it. In this social media world, where tweets and updates have a half life comparable to that of a gnat, getting access to a potential customers inbox can be beneficial for getting your message across. Whilst I'm not sure that the below plugin is the best WordPress mailing list plugin in the world, it is definitely a very useful ...
Get Into Your SEO Gym
You ready for a bit of an SEO analogy? Well, even if you're not, here it comes - your website is your gym and bicep curls are you SEO efforts. When we get new clients asking us to build WordPress sites for them and then enquiring about on-going SEO services I then pull out the SEO gym analogy to give clients a good understanding of what SEO involves. The WordPress sites we build are built with SEO in mind from the ground up. All pages are ...
Have We Hit Peak Social Media – October Update
Hard to believe that this is now the 4th month of tracking the stats on peak social media usage. It's not an exact science as accurate social media user data is hard to come by but in time these stats may become useful, or if nothing else, interesting. And, on the topic of interesting but perhaps useless info, this also happens to be my 50th blog post since my first post - Social Media Logo A Go-Go - on the 15th of July, a rate of one post every ...
WordPress Web Development – Huzzah
The boss, who is out and about in Dublin City with her amigos, just sent me the above image which she saw at the steps of Powerscourt Townhouse. The image is of a banner from DublinTown.ie who do great promotional work for shops, pubs, restaurants etc in Dublin. The WordPress web development huzzah is that the top two sites on on the list, the Dublin Fashion Festival and Dine in Dublin, have been built by myself and Niall. All too often ...
Social Media – If It Was Easy Everyone Would Do It
Social Media - the buzzword of the last decade or so and the panacea to all of your marketing ills. The silver bullet to rejuvenate your sales and put your brand on the map. I'm reminded of a phrase my grandad used to say "if it was easy everyone would do it" and I think it holds particularly true for social media. Over my years being involved with social media I've seen lots of different faces come and go. Lots of people with pep in their ...
Dublin Restaurant Websites – Delicious
After the recent launch of the Dine in Dublin site the penny dropped for myself and Niall that we have hit a bit of a rich vein of business when it comes to Dublin restaurant websites. In the past we were kept busy with wedding websites, thinking that we'd caught the flowers, but now we've noticed an uptick in enquiries from Dublin restaurants looking to get their website spruced up. We have a fair bit of experience in Dublin restaurant ...
Dine In Dublin – WordPress Site Launch – DineInDublin.ie
It has been a busy few days for myself and Niall as we have had a few sites on the go. The latest WordPress site to go live is DineInDublin.ie - a site to promote the bi-annual Dine in Dublin food festival in Dublin City which is running from the 21st to 27th October. Dine in Dublin is in its 4th year and has grown steadily each year. This year they wanted their site to put Dublin restaurants front and centre and so an integrated map and ...
Graphic Designer – ElenaMontes.ie – WordPress Site Launch
It's Monday and a new site has just rolled out of the production yard and gone live. Elena Montes is a graphic designer who has done some work in the past with myself and Niall. She has a keen eye for web design and as such is a new recruit into the "WordPress Mafia" where her design skills will be put to good use. Elena wanted her site to be clean and minimalistic and, unsurprisingly, she did all the artwork and design for the site herself ...
Robert Ryan SEO Mini Quest Update + Epic Dear Diary Moment
As I've said time and time again on this here blog, it's important for you to set SEO goals and targets so that you have a defined focus for your SEO efforts. About 6 weeks ago I wrote about how Google loves Robert Ryan but hates me - one of the keywords which I'd like my site to rank for, "Robert Ryan" was proving to be tougher than anticipated to rank for, too many famous Robert Ryans! So, 6 weeks ago, whilst ranking 47th, I set out on an SEO ...