Web Design Ireland

It appears that Google have published their toolbar updates for April. If you are a green bar addict, get yourself over to PR checker We have moved from a PR 3 to 4, on both the blog and main site, on a number of data centres - which is not ...

Yes I know, we changed the design for the second time this year. From looking at our statistics I wasn't happy with the way the site was performing, Bounce rates were high (70 - 80%) - and I wanted to make sure that it wasn't to do with the design. ...

One website I visit quite often - normally through Google searches is experts-exchange. Searches on particular programming problems seem to be a covered on many different topics at the site, and I for one have found the answer to many a tough cookie. However I have one gripe / pet ...

There are a number of useful tools at the disposal of us olde search optimisers. So you've spent months chasing a specific keyword, dropping links like a maniac, until you reach that top ten position on your search engine of choice, only to find that traffic dribbles in slower ...

I've seen it time and time again with business in Northern Ireland, they have their branding sorted, they have their vehicle livery sorted, and this includes mr white van man. Plumbers, Electricians, Painters and Decorators, Paving Contractors Ok, so paving contractors is a bit special, I optimised the ...

I've just dumped this bad boy into my footer code, hopefully should start to show the breakdown of visitors from Google.ie verses .co.uk and .com Anyone convert this to php for my blog please? <%Dim myvar,track %><% track = "false" If InStr(Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER"), "google.ie") > 0 Then track = "true" myvar = ".ie" Else If InStr(Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER"), "google.co.uk") > 0 Then myvar ...

What do Alexander Graham Bell, Mother's Day, Easter and Frank Lloyd Wright all have in Common? No Idea? -They have all been featured in Google's holiday calendar. And what is the result for webmasters? That's right, if you can cover some of these topics in your blog or website, then ...

Lets face it some of us are built for coding, and some of us built for design. Its a left brain and right brain thing, I've always maintained that people are mostly one or the other. Can you be a creative coder or a logical designer? My thinking is that ...

Many first time bloggers start out using the free accounts at Blogger, or TypePad. The reason for their generousity in providing you with a blog is twofold. 1) They retain you as a visitor, i.e. once you sign up and start blogging you will be unlikely to leave. That can result ...

Everyone in the gaming industry has been surprised by Nintendo's rise and rise in the video gaming market. Their new console the Nintendo WII (for those of you who have been living under a rock) has blindsided the major market dominators Microsoft and Sony. November 2006 was the first time ...