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Paypal reaffirm commitment to Dundalk post announcement – Independent.ie

Sep 5, 2016

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Paypal reaffirm commitment to Dundalk post announcement – Independent.ie

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The shocking news of eBay’s impending departure prompted it’s nearest neighbour to reaffirm their commitment to the town. A spokesman for Paypal said: ‘Following eBay’s announcement, we wish to reaffirm PayPal’s commitment to Ireland and our growing Operations Centres in … Continue reading →

Andy Yen TED Talk: Think your email’s private? Think again

Jul 27, 2016

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Andy Yen TED Talk: Think your email’s private? Think again

Most of us know that the large internet companies know a lot more than we’d like them to about us; and that government agencies routinely stockpile information about everybody and anybody, not just threats to society. However most people don’t know just how open email is.

Sending an email message is like sending a postcard, says scientist Andy Yen in this thought-provoking talk: Anyone can read it.

Why Expensive Design is Cheap and Cheap Design is Expensive

Jul 15, 2016

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Why Expensive Design is Cheap and Cheap Design is Expensive

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All too often I meet clients who have literally wasted money on a cheap design. If you’re in the market for a website then this article from Inspired Magazine with it’s ‘all too true’ provoking title is well worth a read, … Continue reading →

Youtube WordPress Training Channel

Jun 2, 2016

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Youtube WordPress Training Channel

I often have to remind clients how to do various things in their WordPress websites so I decided to start a new Youtube channel “WordPress Training Videos” where I’ll put up a selection of screencast videos over time which are aimed at basic training in running a website ( and I’ll be doing some ecommerce stuff too eventually ).

The first video is already up — “WordPress Making A Blog Post”. If you know anyone who runs a WordPress website this channel could be worth sharing with them; as I often encounter people who have a website with no clue how to use it.

Click here to go to the channel

 

Zuckerberg announces start of Data Centre construction in Clonee, Co. Meath

Jan 25, 2016

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Zuckerberg announces start of Data Centre construction in Clonee, Co. Meath

Clonee Data Center in Co. Meath will be one of the most advanced and energy efficient data centers in the world. It will feature the latest server, storage and network designs developed through the Open Compute Project, and will be … Continue reading →

Are You Getting Cheated When Buying A WordPress Theme? – Smashing Magazine

Nov 18, 2015

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Are You Getting Cheated When Buying A WordPress Theme? – Smashing Magazine

Premium WordPress themes are dominating the web development landscape and apparently offer webmasters a simpler and cheaper route to achieve a high end design; compared with a traditional bespoke theme build. Even large companies on big budgets have been known to opt for … Continue reading →

10 Unfortunate Design Trends We All Wished We Could Forget ~ Creative Market Blog

Nov 2, 2015

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10 Unfortunate Design Trends We All Wished We Could Forget ~ Creative Market Blog

Here’s a few design trends from “Creative Market” that are now funny looking back but we all lapped them up just a very few short years ago. Amazing how we’ve all gotten so clever about our web designs in such … Continue reading →

Google’s Got a Plan to Make the Mobile Web Less Slow | WIRED

Oct 13, 2015

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Google’s Got a Plan to Make the Mobile Web Less Slow | WIRED

Tech companies are quickly becoming the news outlets of the 21st century … Google has created a new open source format to make web content as fast as the native apps we’ve all gotten used to. Source: Google’s Got a … Continue reading →