I met a friend yesterday for yesterday to dicsuss her website. She was wondering where she should put here social buttons in the footer. I said dont bother. She looked at me a little strangely. I said it was pointless putting social icons in the footer as it is rare for people to click on them. Lot sof site DO have them but the click through rate on them is pitiful. So why bother. You are better off putting some clear contact details that people can actually read. I find
Read more →Your typical online user is spending more time online on their laptop and mobile device than ever before. Red C put Irish household smartphone ownership at 49% of the population in 2011, but predicts it will accelerate to 71% by the end of the current year. All of these people are online with these devices. I was at a social event on Sunday and the person next to me checked Facebook every 5 minutes. He was a married man in his late 40s, not a teenager. I had an identical experience
Read more →Many people’s eyes glaze over when people mention hosting . The underlying technology and what makes websites run can be pretty complex at times. But the effort required to get hosting for your website and get online is easy and should not be a barrier to entry for you and your business. This is a short set of slides explaining this and how you could be online in less than an afternoon.
Read more →Everybody has had the conversation with friends. When I win the Lotto I am going to Buy a new car Have a HUGE party Clear all my debts Go on a holiday Buy a big new house Give money to my family Go on another holiday Follow Man City for the Entire Season (thought I’d slip that one in!) But once you have all of the above items purchased there is (usually) a lot of money left over. The Euro Millions is about 100-120 million every week and often much
Read more →Crowded space from Kieran Daly Your Website is just one of many (millions) Its hard to stand out… Hard not impossible Its an ongoing race.You’ve gotta get moving There is no medal for the winner There may be money from new customers It takes time and effortAnd then time and effort It’s a crowded space You need to schedule time to do the work … Or pay someone to do it There is no magic formula If you build it they may not come But if you keep at it
Read more →You see them on tons of sites these days the testimonials section and they usually go something like this. Kieran was great, we were delighted with his work. He jumped through hoops, fought dragons and we would use him again and again till we had spent all of our money and then we would borrow from friends. We love him. We adore him. Use him people. Send us some money so we can also avail of his services. Nobody has testimonials on their site like this. Kieran was a disaster,
Read more →As most of us in the technical space now know Ireland.com is closing down its email service. Displayed prominently on their website is a message telling people of this. The technical blogs are complaining and speaking about it loudly. Estimates are that there are 15K users on the service. Those of us who are on Twitter, boards.ie and read the other Irish blogs tut tut and go back to our hosted email accounts and Gmail (or whatever we use) and forget about it. Therein lies the problem. Lets explore the
Read more →When you first start looking for a new website design it is hard to get ideas and inspiration. Here in Grange Web Design we always ask our client to give us some examples of sites that they like to allow us understand what they need. Here are 5 more ideas to help you end up with the right product. 1. For Your Website Don’t Be What You Aren’t There are lots of amazing big business websites out there. They look fantastic and present a rich web experience. However if you
Read more →When I first started creating websites I took a lot of pride (and still do) in creating excellent looking websites and designs and making sure that the customer was happy with the end result. However just having a website is like having a car with no wheels. Most websites created today do not have any end benefit to the customer. They look well, please the customer but are the car with no wheels – the site is of no value to them. They might as well have printed off leaflets and
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