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Jigoshop: New WordPress E-Commerce Plugin

Keith — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 18:37:50 +0000

Jigoshop‘s new e-commerce plugin is finally out of beta and is in the WordPress directory available for immediate download. There are a few WordPress e-commerce plugins available already but having tried quite a few of them, I do think we need something better, maybe Jigoshop could be the answer.

Jigoshop looks really modern and the default theme is absolutely gorgeous, I will be playing with this plugin very soon and report back with my findings.

Well done to the team, hope it’s a huge success for you!

Net Visionary Awards 2010

Keith — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 01:44:40 +0000

The Net Visionary Awards are right around the corner and while I wish all nominees the very best of luck, below are some I have voted for and if you have a minute to spare, please vote for these people too.

Web Designer excellence: http://www.iia.ie/net-visionary/vote/13

Web Together, previously trading as ‘David Behan Web Design’ is one of Ireland’s best web design companies in my opinion. I admire their work alot and am happy that we have companies like this to put ‘Ireland on the map’ in the design industry. Good luck David.

Best use of Social media: http://www.iia.ie/net-visionary/vote/19

Blacknight Hosting is probably the best hosting company in Ireland and one that I use to host this very site. The MD, Michele Neylon is always on twitter/facebook etc giving out crazy promotions and discounts, not that he needs to I’d say, so these guys are getting my vote for Best use of Social media. Good luck Michele.

Internet Entrepreneur: http://www.iia.ie/net-visionary/vote/7

Ronan O’ Brien is an Irish Serial Entrepreneur with some very successful businesses including The Costume Shop, Ireland’s biggest B2C e-commerce website and he is about to launch one or two more in the coming months! He is a professional, dynamic and very motivated entrepenuer. Good luck Ronan.

Voting closes: 30 April, so hurry up!

Blacknight Domain Sale

Keith — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:54:42 +0000

Over at Blacknight Hosting, they have a great sale on at the minute with domain names. If you are about to purchase a new domain name, definitely give them a look over. Some extensions are are due to expire by December 31st 2009 and the rest run into 2010.

.info – €4.95 1 year registration.
.com – Registrations and transfers reduced to €4.99 / year – discount in cart
.mobi – €6.75 / year (transfers too!) If you add the WordPress Mobile pack you’ll have a mobile ready website in no time!
.eu – €2.95 / year (registrations)
.im – €4.95 / year
.me – €11 / year
be – €2.99 – transfers too!
co.uk – €3 / year – discount in cart
.ie – registrations AND transfers reduced to €16.95 / year. Discount in cart. Offer valid on ALL registration periods. No limit per customer. Offer ends December 31st 2009

A List Apart Survey 2009

Keith — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:05:43 +0000

Since 2007, A list Apart have conducted a survey ‘for people who make websites’. The survey only takes a minute, so if you are involved in any way with the web, take the survey, it only takes a few minutes.

Early Christmas Present: Logo Book

Keith — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:11:25 +0000

Thought I’d treat myself to an early Christmas present

Eire Studio is on facebook

Keith — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:23:20 +0000

I have to admit, I haven’t given facebook much time (well, apart from farmville, cough) due to other services such as twitter etc. So last month I thought what the hell, why not create a fan page and see where it goes.

It’s actually surprisingly fun. Eire Studio has 35 fans at present and I am posting some design work that I haven’t included on this site… yet.

So if you fancy it, become a fan now!

Eire Studio Facebook Fan Page

Google release Closure Tools

Keith — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:43:43 +0000

I just got word that Google have released their in house JavaScript library to developers, some of the tools used to create Gmail and Google Docs.

This is fantastic news and another reason to heart Google.

Millions of Google users worldwide use JavaScript-intensive applications such as Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Maps. Like developers everywhere, Googlers want great web apps to be easier to create, so we’ve built many tools to help us develop these (and many other) apps. We’re happy to announce the open sourcing of these tools, and proud to make them available to the web development community.

Below are the three main tools they have open sourced.

Closure Compiler

The complier is a tool that optimizes JavaScript code to make it more lean, less buggy and basically to make it run faster.

Closure Library

Now, The Closure library looks the most interesting and is something I can’t wait to get my teeth into. The library has an array of features from widgets to DOM manipulation. Their demos look great and this is going to make alot of web developer happy.

Closure Templates

Closure Templates simplify the task of dynamically generating HTML. They have a simple syntax that is natural for programmers. In contrast to traditional templating systems, in which you use one big template per page, you can think of Closure Templates as small components that you compose to form your user interface.

Absolute fair play to Google for giving back… yet again to the community. And now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to try these out.

Free Freelancing e-book from Sitepoint

Keith — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:06:45 +0000

Sitepoint are giving away yet another free ebook and all you have to do is follow them on twitter to get your hands on it. Fair play guys!

Sitepoint – The principles of successful freelancing.

Who is Alex Navas and why is he trying to steal my design?

Keith — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:29:39 +0000

Just got an email from somebody informing me of a person on Scriptlance trying to make a request to copy my company’s design. The person’s name is Alex Navas, apparently he is an author, a speaker and a serial entrepreneur. I thought entrepreneurs had some money? The total cost he wants the “project” completed for… $30. Alex, you are named and shamed.

Simple and fast Invoicing, try CurdBee

Keith — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:55:03 +0000

I want to share an invoicing app I have been using for the past two months, it’s name is CurdBee. CurdBee has two main offerings, a free and a paid version. I signed up to the free version to test the service out as I have been on the lookout for a simple way to invoice clients and I quickly subscribed to the paid version, mainly because of pdf option and unbranded invoices.

I have looked at about 7 other invoicing tools such as Fresh books and The Invoice machine and most of them look good, but the part that always deters me from signing up is the price hierarchy. I hate feeling restricted and not having as many features than If I was on a higher priced plan. CurdBee solves that problem for me with two choices, a free version and the paid. The paid version has everything I need and all for a total of $5 a month.

The control panel is super simple and everything is intuitive. I created my first invoice and sent it within about 3 minutes. I also have to commend the team on their support. I had a few questions and emailed them, Lakshan quickly got back to me and was very friendly and helpful.

So if you need a simple way to invoice, why not give CurdBee a try?