Smashing Magazine – 10 Principles of Effective Web Design

Posted on | March 24, 2010 | Comments Off

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/

JQuery and Google Maps Tutorial

Posted on | March 8, 2010 | Comments Off

Useful tutorial for creating Google Maps with JQuery

Email Testing – Preview Email on all Major Email Clients

Posted on | March 7, 2010 | Comments Off

Just came across this excellent free resource for testing emails for all major email platforms [...]

Newsletter Solution – MailChimp

Posted on | March 5, 2010 | Comments Off

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 [...]

Colour Trends – Resource

Posted on | March 4, 2010 | Comments Off

Great Colour Resource – Read More

BrowserShots – Browser Testing

Posted on | January 28, 2010 | Comments Off

A very useful resource for checking browser compatibility and cross platform testing.  Type in the url of your website and  select the browsers and platforms you want to test on and screenshots of your website page will be shown.
I use this a lot in the development of my websites – and I particularily check the [...]

Email Address Encoder

Posted on | November 19, 2009 | Comments Off

Useful Web Development Tool – Handy ASCII email encoder link

Blacknight – an overview of registering .ie domains

Posted on | September 30, 2009 | Comments Off

Blacknight – the domain and web hosting provider has prepared a short video that guides you through the process of registering a .ie domain and goes some way to help make sense of the IE ccTLD’s rules and regulations.
Embedded Video Here

Link to blacknight youtube video and screencast channel

Choosing the right CMS platform for your website

Posted on | June 25, 2009 | Comments Off

The Question: “I’m starting a new site and have no idea what I should do for software. Do I need to use a content management system, and if so, how do I make sure it’s SEO-friendly?”
An article “Choosing the Right CMS Platform for Your Website (from an SEO perspective),  on the SEOmoz website provides [...]

Web Payments – A Guide to Online Payment Processing

Posted on | June 24, 2009 | 1 Comment

Making sense of Online Payments

A new website launched in April 2009 is an excellent resource and point of call for finding out about online payment processing.
“Webpayments.ie is a free and independent resource that provides information and guidance for anyone wanting to accept online payments on their web site.”
It answers such questions as:
How do Online Payments [...]