WordPress – State of the Word 2023

State of the Word is the annual keynote address delivered by the WordPress project’s co-founder, Matt Mullenweg, celebrating the progress of the open source project and offering a glimpse into its future. For the first time, State of the Word ventures beyond North America, bringing the WordPress community to a new and vibrant city that

25 years in the website design business

25 Years in business

26 years in the website design business! Since 1998, we have been creating and managing a diverse array of websites and web applications for businesses, individuals, and organisations.  Making us one of the longest established website design firms in Ireland.

Use AI wisely

AI ChatGPT Bard Artificial intelligence

ChatGPT and Bard can be used effectively to run your content (text copy) through and produce (hopefully improved) alternatives to your own text. Both ChatGPT and Bard are large language models (LLMs) that have been trained on a massive dataset of text and code. This means that they are able to understand and generate human

What is a content management website and what are the benefits?

Content management websites

Content management systems (CMS) are software applications that provide a user-friendly interface for creating, managing, and publishing content on a website. They are a popular choice for businesses and organizations of all sizes because they offer a number of advantages over traditional methods of website development and maintenance. Here are some of the key benefits

How important is UX design?

UX designer

David Haverty our designer writes: User Experience (UX) design is incredibly important in today’s digital landscape for several reasons: Customer Satisfaction: Good UX design ensures that users have a positive experience interacting with a product or service. When users enjoy using a website or application, it increases customer satisfaction and encourages them to return. User

How important is having a website for your business?

search engine optimisation in dublin

First Point of Contact – A website can be the first point of contact for your potential customers to your business offering. Be found! – When searching for a service or product most will “Google it“, this is where you need to be! A Wealth of Information – Unlike social media a website can store

How WordPress plugins are like Apps

WordPress Plugins

WordPress “Plugins” act a bit like “Apps” on your smart phone. There are thousands available so there is usually one for every requirement. Moving to the WordPress platform gives your website increased functionality. Many of these Plugins offer a free version with the premium version providing more features at a small yearly fee. Here is

Why do I need a website when we have social media?

why do I need social media?

It’s a reasonable question! If you think about it, a lot of business just want to get their name out there and provide a contact method. So when you spend a lot of time keeping up a Facebook or Instagram account why should you spend more time updating a website too? So the important question

WordCamp Dublin 2017

WordCamp

Dave and Peter both attended WordCamp in 2017 which was held in DCU, the last time it was hosted in Ireland was in Kilkenny way back in 2010. Below is a video of Interviews with speakers, volunteers, attendees and organisers. It was a great event and brought together many experts in the field and aired