Archive for March, 2008

A good night’s sleep

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Leaving Castlebar after a 3 hour speaking engagement at 11pm, and with a BNI meeting the following day in Tullamore at 7am, meant very little time for sleep. Even though home is just 40 minutes further down the road I decided to try an overnight in Days Hotel Tullamore ...

Hidden Ireland – a great institution but printable pages PLEASE!

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Easter weekend was a great excuse for indulgence,, a couple of days walking the beach and over indulging in Clonakilty Quality Hotel started with a real boob. Searched for great rates on Last Minute.com put in 'quality hotel clonakilty' up came one decent offer - booked it to find ...

When and where to blog

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Barely a week passes that some geek seems to be urging us all to write business blogs. Should SMEs blog? Will it help grow business? Often blogs seem to be sold as a means of providing dynamic content when a website is static, neglected and never updated. But is it not better ...

Addictive stuff

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

For sheer cool development and a great user experience it's hard to beat www.mydeco.com Brent Hoberman's post LastMinute excursion into online design.  Taking up where other developers left off and leaving the Dulux mood board looking rather single dimension.  Be warned though it is addictive and one of the best examples ...

Do web developers speak a different language?

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

ISME E-Business Survey report 2008 This weeks ISME e-business research indicates that more than 40% of businesses agree that ‘Web Designers try to confuse us with jargon’ and that ‘commissioning a website was a confusing and/or frustrating experience’. Given that three quarters of businesses agree their website needs improvement is the ...

Blog from the bog – the first

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

After a good year of resistance to the concept of blogging I have finally given in.  Actually I realised that after all I was really blogging all the time through the SitesToGo Web Knowledge Area so my resistance was futile. Deploying a simple bit of software means I can now call ...