Shack Restaurant has been redesigned.
We are delighted to announce the redesign of Shack Restaurant, www.shackrestaurant.ie. This redesign was not just visual but it encompassed a rethink of the inf…
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Smarter Stripe Checkout for Event Ticketing: Why Organisers Are Moving to Ticket HQ
Irish festivals, venues, and community events can’t afford a checkout that quietly fails. When bank authentication rules tightened across Europe, many older Str…
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AI Integration for WordPress and Web Applications
Artificial intelligence is no longer a futuristic concept. It’s a practical, powerful tool that businesses can use today to improve efficiency, enhance user exp…
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Summer Highlights at Irish Web HQ: A Season of Application Development
At Irish Web HQ, summer is always a busy and exciting period. This year has been no exception, with our team deeply involved in a range of projects that showcas…
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Win a New John Deere
We were delighted to work on this web development project in conjunction with Upperchurch-Drombane GAA Club. A brand new John Deere 6140M is up for grabs in thi…
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Ways to boost sales on your ecommerce website
Target your existing customers Businesses go through periods of highs and lows and it’s common for people to get discouraged and begin coming up with ways of ge…
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In-store POS and ecommerce integration
It’s clear that years ago many retailers didn’t give much thought to connecting their website to their in-store Point of sale system. Today however, for any ret…
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77.1% of Irish People Shop Online in 2018 and is expected to hit 79.8% by 2022
This is according to https://www.statista.com/outlook/243/140/ecommerce/ireland For more ecommerce stats check out our other blog posts: https://www.irishwebhq.…
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How Your Ecommerce Site Can Compete with the Multinationals
It may seem like a great challenge for your new ecommerce shop to compete with the established multinationals but here are some ways in which you can differenti…
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Irish consumers to double online spend by 2021
A recent survey by Wolfgang digital has shown that Irish consumers are poised to double their online spend by 2021. This is due to a number of factors . People…
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Irish Ecommerce Revenue is expected to show an annual growth rate of 8.6% by 2022
There have been many recent studies that show the Irish ecommerce segment is growing year on year. Due to the use of mobile phones by consumers, the better de…
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Ireland's largest ecommerce market segment is Toys, Hobby & DIY
One of the most interesting studies into the Irish ecommerce industry has shown that toys, hobbies and DIY are the three major markets in Ireland with most onli…
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Total Irish eCommerce revenue is expected to grow to 5.66 billion USD by 2021
The current total Irish eCommerce revenue is 3.99 billion USD, and this figure is expected to reach 5.66 billion USD by 2021 according to a study compiled by eS…
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Lucky for Some - 13 Ways Our Ecommerce Websites Boost Sales
We have been in business since 2004 and in that time we have developed many ecommerce websites. Our focus is always about providing a real return on investment…
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getPAID.ie - Accept Credit Card Payments on Your Website
Irish web HQ are delighted to announce the launch of our partner website getPAID.ie. getPAID.ie is a payment services website enabling business customers to get…
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2 Quick Tips for Blog Post Ideas
Everything is a Potential Blog Post... Most people know that in order to rank well on Google its important to have regular content updates on your website. Alon…
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Secure Socket Layer SSL Cert Installations
It's been a busy day working on our own website https://www.irishwebhq.com today.We installed a SSL certificate on our site for encrypting website data. The pre…
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Advanced Custom Fields - Search by Date
Here's a useful article for those of you who use Advanced Custom Fields plugin and need to search your entried by date. https://www.wppluginhq.com/advanced-cust…
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The Experts in Ecommerce Web Design
We are always happy when clients are happy and when developing websites our goal is that clients will receive a return on investment. We have created many ecomm…
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10 Ways to Make your Website Easy to Use
Your website should be easy to use. If it isn’t your site visitors will be frustrated and may leave for your competitors website. The term for making a website…
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7 Key Elements of Every Website
Your website is a showcase for your business brand, products and services. Here are 7 key things to consider when your website is being developed. Usability Oft…
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Why Secure Passwords are Important
It’s always tempting to use an easy to remember password when registering on a Wordpress website. However, website security is essential and picking a strong pa…
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Losing Customers Because Your Website is Difficult to Use?
Is Your Website Difficult to Use? Have you ever struggled to find an app or function on your mobile phone? Ever struggled with the settings on a microwave or fo…
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8 Top Ecommerce Tips to Boost Online Sales
Discover the secrets that the pro's use to maximise their income each month. Follow these 10 simple ecommerce tips and you will see a spike in your sales and in…
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7 Reasons Why WooCommerce Should be Your Ecommerce Tool of Choice
Sometimes I think back with dread at the days before WooCommerce as I remember the frustrations I faced in trying to get other ecommerce tools to work as i want…
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Social Media Marketing
How can I use social media to let people know about my business, my services and my products? Read on to find out the secrets of social media marketing. https:/…
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Social Media Marketing & Optimisation
The following presentation was delivered as part of the Enterprise Start Programme in Thurles, Saturday December 15th 2012. Download the social media marketing…
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Search Engine Optimisation for Beginners
This is a recent lecture entitled "Search Engine Optimisation for Beginners" that I delivered as part of the Web Development module on the Creative Multimedia c…
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3 Free Ways to Promote Your Business Online
Promoting your business and getting found in the search results can take time and patience. There is no single magic trick to get a lasting position on page 1.…
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Wordpress Featured Image by Page ID - The Easy Way
Wordpress Featured Image Thumbnails In a previous post I showed you how to get the page content by page id to create a Wordpress website page with snippets of m…
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Responsive Images in Wordpress
Wordpress responsive images scale to fit whatever device you are using to view your website. Responsive design is the new buzzword in town, and rightly so. It i…
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Irish Web Design - HTML Kickstart
We discovered HTML Kickstart recently and decided to put it into practice in the design of some new sites. Generally our website designs vary considerably due t…
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Website Design Feedback - This Makes it all Worthwhile
I have been a bit disillusioned of late with the continuing race to the bottom in the website design industry in Ireland. With this backdrop, I was delighted to…
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Web Design Review 2011
The new year is upon us and we are focusing on new website designs here at Irish Web HQ, but here's a quick look back at some of our best web designs…
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Wordpress - Get Page or Post Content By ID
Often when creating your homepage or a featured content page or slider you will need to get content from specific pages in your site. The following code snippet…
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Professional Search Engine Optimisation Service
Our Professional Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Services will help to boost your website traffic. We have a great track record with many Web based companies i…
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Web Design Ireland - Irish SME’s Place Trust in the Web
Here at Irish Web HQ we have noticed significant increase in the number of SME’s requiring specialised websites. Small businesses in Ireland have realized that…
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10 Web Design Tips to Get to Page 1 on Google
Want to drive traffic to your website and perform well in the search engines? The following is a list of tips for you to consider in your web design. These tips…
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Better Stats with Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a great resource for web developers, SEO experts or website owners interested in web marketing. This online tool lets you track visits to yo…
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Wordpress Gallery Pagination - Free Plugin
This free plugin makes it easy for users to create paginated galleries using the native Wordpress gallery shortcode. I've added an editor button to make it even…
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Web Design Tip - CSS Vertical Alignment
CSS Vertical alignment can be tricky. The old deprecated HTML method was using the valign attribute but this leads to validation errors for xHTML coders. For ve…
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Is Your Website Letting You Down? Top 10 Signs
Web design has a very low barrier to entry. Anyone can create a simple website after just a few days self-study. Because of this the internet is littered with h…
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SEO Success
Page 1 SEO in Google, Yahoo and Bing Our website comes in on page one of the Google search results for "Irish Web Design" and "Best Irish Web Design". It also a…
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Irish Web Awards
I was delighted to hear that Caroline Ryan has received 2 Irish Web Award nominations for her website Style By Caroline - www.stylebycaroline.ie, and for her…
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Sell Online This Christmas
Looking for website design in Ireland? Would you like to improve sales? Sell your products and recieve immediate automated online payment. Accept payments and s…
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Social Media and the dot com Bubble
More and more my role as a web consultant involves hooking in social media apps into sites that I build. I notice a strong client willingness to embrace social…
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Update Your Blog using Microsoft Word
All of our website designs include blogs allowing website owners to update their website and keep customers informed of news and events as they happen. The main…
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Blog Your Business Better
Creating a blog is an easy way to communicate. Irish Web Headquarters is a web design company using blogs to post details of products and services such as hosti…
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Stop SPAM For Good
The following extract was written by Mike Cox, Technology Services Unit Manager at Tipperary Institute. It gives some great tips for preventing spam and helps y…
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Website Owners - Don't get Caught for 958 Euros
The internet is full of chancers and scams. We have all received emails from the disposed King of Nigeria or wherever, or some other scammer looking to get acce…
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Hide your Brand Name for Better Results
You've created your brand, you've designed a logo and you've got great business cards. Now you need a website. So what domain name should you choose? The obviou…
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Build Your Customer Base With Inbound Links
In the early days of the web inbound links were an important way of getting website visitors. Nothing has changed. Links are still an important way to boost you…
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Make your Website Content Relevant
Make sure that there is text on your site. Make sure it is good. Search engines such as Google and Yahoo love text. It is the easiest way for them to determine…
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If you Market it They Will Come
Back in the early days of the web this was true. No major marketing was needed. Everyone wanted their piece of the pie, but there was plenty of pie to go around…
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