http://www.mauramcdonnell.com Freelance Web Designer, Carlow - Photoshop, Dreamweaver, xHTML, CSS, CMS, Blog, Wordpress, Drupal, Shopify Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:41:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The La Verna Retreat Centre website has just been made live. The website was developed to provide information to people interested in staying in the La Verna Retreat Centre for their own individual retreat, or as a group retreat or to attend their developing programme and courses of retreats held throughout the year. La Verna is in the most incredible location, on the grounds of the Franciscan Friary beside the amazing Rossnowlagh Beach and Strand near Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal. This location is just beautiful. ]]> http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/work/la-verna-retreat-centre/ The website for The Dublin GAA Summer Camps Website has just been launched - 28th May 2010. The website contains all the information about camp venues, contact details, google map location, dates for the Dublin region. The website is a sister site to the main Dublin GAA Games Development website. A custom design and theme was developed for this website.]]> http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/work/dublin-gaa-summer-camps-website/ This resource that compiles together 10 principles of effective web design is useful for being aware in particular of how a site visitor encounters your website.  The resource has lots of further links to investigate this area further. See: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/01/31/10-principles-of-effective-web-design/ ]]> http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/articles/principless-of-effective-web-design/ Beautiful Trash – a carlow band, has been featured this week – March 12th 2010 in the Carlow Nationalist. They are a great band and great musicians playing great music. Bébhinn (incredible keyboards and vocals and songwriting), Emma (brilliant drummer), Emmet (funky bass) and Eoghain (guitarist supreme) are the members and they are just great [...]]]> http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/carlow-arts/beautiful-trash-one-vision-carlow-band/ Useful tutorial for creating Google Maps with JQuery]]> http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/articles/jquery-and-google-maps-tutorial/ Just came across this excellent free resource for testing emails for all major email platforms [...]]]> http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/articles/email-testing-preview-email-on-all-major-email-clients/ Andrew Goss is a freelance photographer based in Carlow, Ireland. Visit his website to view samples of his work. Andrew’s photography is quite stunning – his composition, use of colour and light ensures that his photos are beautiful.  They are works of art.  His landscapes are incredible.  His website showcases samples of his work from published, live [...]]]> http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/carlow-arts/andrew-goss-photographer/ There are various newsletter solutions on the market. For example campaign monitor are excellent and their pricing is competitive. However, MailChimp is another really excellent newsetter solution – particularly when you are starting out in managing and sending newsletters to your email list.  I have used campaign monitor a lot to set up [...]]]> http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/articles/newsletter-solution-mailchimp/ Eigse Carlow Arts Festival 2010 dates are 11th - 20th June 2010. [...]]]> http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/carlow-arts/eigse-carlow/ Great Colour Resource - Read More]]> http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/articles/colour-trends-resource/