Support is available to help Irish SMEs make greater use of web technologies and upgrade to e-commerce enabled websites.
The eCommerce Website Development Fund (OPTIMISE) is provided by the IE Domain Registry, an independent non-profit organisation responsible for maintaining the database of .ie registered internet domains.
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Don't know about you, but I'm always curious as to where my sites are in Google for various search terms, particularly in the early stages of SEO and site development.
Was forwarded this handy little site by a colleague. Just pop your domain name in and the search terms you want to test and hey presto, it lets you know what page of Google you're on. No more trawling through pages looking for your site...!
http://whatpageofsearchamion.com/
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 One challenge facing web designers is how to set up a foolproof way for clients to receive and send email from an email address at their own domain. Instead of going to the trouble of installing an email client like MS Outlook on a client's laptop, you can actually use Gmail for the same purpose.
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 Had the requirement for a Business Directory on a Wordpress site, but plugins were leaving me wanting. The solution was effective as it was simple...
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 Some major developments are underway in the World of Joomla that you should be aware of if you are administering a Joomla site.
Hot on the heels of Joomla 1.6 - which took ages - is the release of Joomla 1.7 which was available in July 2011. This will be followed pretty smartly by Joomla 1.8 as Joomla moves to a six month release schedule.
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 Back in World War II when meat was in dire shortage, food scientists developed an artificial replacement for ham...
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 One of the things I'm always banging on about with clients is the need to re-size images before posting them to the Net. The average digital camera these days takes pictures that are just too large for publishing on the Web.
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 The way Google decides the order sites appear in searches is often seen as intriguing and mysterious, yet a lot of it comes down to practical common sense.
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 With the predominant use of laptops and other portable digital technologies, just how secure is your data, and indeed you?
Well the answer is more than likely ‘not very’ unless you have a number of measures to increase your security put in place.
There are several threats. The obvious being theft. But you are also at risk of:
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 From research through Google and from talking to people it is easy to see that a lot of businesses have embraced social media, in terms of setting up a Facebook page, but do not have a website themselves.
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