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://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/articles/principless-of-effective-web-design/ http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/articles/principless-of-effective-web-design/#comments Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:25:26 +0000 admin http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/?p=1097 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/feed/ 0 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/articles/jquery-and-google-maps-tutorial/ http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/articles/jquery-and-google-maps-tutorial/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:00:29 +0000 admin http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/?p=1093 Useful tutorial for creating Google Maps with JQuery]]> http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/articles/jquery-and-google-maps-tutorial/feed/ 0 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/articles/email-testing-preview-email-on-all-major-email-clients/ http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/articles/email-testing-preview-email-on-all-major-email-clients/#comments Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:44:31 +0000 admin http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/?p=1091 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/feed/ 0 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/articles/newsletter-solution-mailchimp/ http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/articles/newsletter-solution-mailchimp/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:20:37 +0000 admin http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/?p=1084 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/feed/ 0 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/articles/colour-trends-resource/ http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/articles/colour-trends-resource/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:50:40 +0000 admin http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/?p=1079 Great Colour Resource - Read More]]> http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/articles/colour-trends-resource/feed/ 0 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/articles/browsershots-browser-testing/ http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/articles/browsershots-browser-testing/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:04:57 +0000 admin http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/?p=1074 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 [...]]]> http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/articles/browsershots-browser-testing/feed/ 0 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/articles/email-address-encoder/ http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/articles/email-address-encoder/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:26:36 +0000 admin http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/?p=924 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/articles/email-address-encoder/feed/ 0 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/articles/registeriedomain/ http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/articles/registeriedomain/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:48:03 +0000 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/?p=871 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/articles/registeriedomain/feed/ 0 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/articles/choosing-cms-website/ http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/articles/choosing-cms-website/#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:51:28 +0000 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/?p=832 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 [...]]]> http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/articles/choosing-cms-website/feed/ 0 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/articles/web-payments-a-guide-to-online-payment-processing/ http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/articles/web-payments-a-guide-to-online-payment-processing/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:25:56 +0000 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/?p=824 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 [...]]]> http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/articles/web-payments-a-guide-to-online-payment-processing/feed/ 1