Rose Photography

That’s all you need to contact!

This new business to the area approached us to create a website to demonstrate her  skills and capabilities in photography. Being able to use the website to showcase her various areas of expertise.

Criona Poutch is the photographer bebind the lens in this Wexford based business. Originnally from Dublin (like myself) she is one of the many people who relocated to the South East in recent years. Getting established in a new area is difficult, bot not if your skills and talent are evident in your work.

In Rose Photography this is clear.

Capturing a special moment is a skill, it’s not just about having the right camera (even thought she is Nikon nut!). It’s about having a way with people. This is a gift Criona has in abundance, she understand kids and is great with being able to grab their attention for family photo’s.

We have used Criona’s skills for our websites, we need more the just “snaps”, we need a professional with a mobile studio and the ability to do commercial photography.

The job of being a Wedding Photograher in Wexford is also a really important one, as you need to be assured that the moment is captured on camera. We can’t all come back again tomorrow! Criona has great experience in this too.

Fixing old photo’s is another service offered by Rose Photography, taking the old family photo out of the attic and restoring it would be a great Christmas present for the special someone this year!

These are just a few of the things we learned this week working on this new website for Criona of Rose Photography in Gorey, Co. Wexford.

Services provided.

• Domain Name Registration
• Website Design
  • Gallery Section
  • Private login area for clients
• Website Hosting
• Web Marketing
• Link Building

www.RosePhotography.ie

Best of Luck Criona with the new site.

We have just carried out a new project for a famous wicklow furniture shop recently and I would like to tell you about it.

Morgan Doyles in Arklow.

This family run business is over 74 years on the go, starting off from hunble beginnings as many family run businesses do they were originally based on the main street in Arklow, Co. Wicklow.

Over the years they have expanded and grown into one of the biggest home decor and furnishings business on the east coast. About a year ago they took the opportunity to up sticks and move lock stock and barrel to a brand new purpose build showroom just out side of the town. This 30,000 square foot furniture shop is open plan and bright, really allowing you to view all the furniture. Their products include:

• Carpets
• Blinds
• Bedding
• Flooring
• Rugs
• Household
• Dining Room Furniture
• Living Room Furniture
• Bedroom Furniture

In order to get across the quality of their furniture and the size of the showroom we called upon our professional photographer Criona Poutch to help us with the imagery needed on the website. Criona has the x factor a photographer needs and also the correct equipment forthe wide angle shops needed.

Thanks for your help Criona,

So if your looking for ideas for how to spruce up the house for christmas then why not call into their furniture showroom, it’s the type of place that you could go to for an afternoon. Inspiring.

I’d like to wish Neville and everyone at Morgan Doyles the very best of luck with the new site:

Services carried out.

• Domain Name Management
• Website Design
• Web Marketing
• Links Building
• Social Media

www.MorganDoyles.com

The things we learn about in this business ah! Heres one of industries that most of us wouldn’t know about or even start to think there was such a trade. The removal of grease and sludge from commercial kitchens such as Hotels, Restaurants and any commercial food supplying business in now a must.

We were approached by one of our long existing clients to revamp their website and give them a fresh, new, content managed website allowing them to easily update it with the latest news and products that are happening in the industry.

Geraldine needed a professional looking site to portray the complexity of the business, it’s a mucky, messy business but also a very strict won, governed by many regulations and permits.

All of these permits Bio Grease Solutions have gained and earned with the knowledge they in this sticky business!

Services provided.

• Domain Management
• Website Design
• Website hosting
• Web Marketing

www.GreaseTrap.ie

Santa is coming to Wexford and he’s stopping off at Kia Ora Mini Farm to meet up with all the children of North Wexford this Christmas.

Santa in Gorey

Yes, it’s true Santa is coming to Gorey this year and he’ll be over with our friends in Kia Ora Mini Farm making sure all the animals are enjoying the holidays. While he’s there he’ll be checking that Podge,  Evelyn, Paddy and Maura have worked hard during the year and learned all the lessons including their new content managed website from Cada Media in Gorey.

This year they have chosen to revamp their website to let all their customers have a better experience visiting Kia on-line and hopefully giving them more information than they ever had. Redesign the website also meant thinking of what people would like and it’s this reason that Paddy and Maura thought that a Gallery of the mini farm might explain better the attractions that visitors can expect, (although they did point out to me, that not all the animals are there all year round so let the little people know that too!)
They also had a video on cd that we have edited and used for the Christmas Holidays and the other video is loaded on their You Tube Channel.

Services Provided:

• Domain Name Management
• Web Design
• Web Hosting
• Web Marketing
• Link Building
• Local Listings
• Training

www.KiaOraMiniFarm.com

Glasgorman Computers in Gorey decided to revamp their static html style website into a fully content managed site to give  them more flexibility in updating the website and keeping it fresh. Being a computer hardware and networking consultancy type of business they understood that they could work on the website themselves as they work with computers etc. But opted to work with a company who specialise in that area, ourselves ! It’s this ethos that companies go for when choosing to use Glasgorman Computers, “get the guys who specialise in computers and networking etc.

Computer Networking

This can be as simple as Peer to Peer meaning from one pc to another, or Client Server Network meaning one central server that the clients pc log into and get the data from. Both are common in small office network structures, it can also mean having a LAN, local Area Network. In talking to John Timmons from Glasgorman Computers we learned that they have created all of these over the years and even WAN’s (Wide Area Networks) .

It was this abilility that grabbed our attention as they also have a sister company supplying broadband and its the marriage of these two capabilities that enable them to help companies link up office to office and pc to pc across roads etc. Situations where a companies own two factories on either side of the road and need the linked up. These are the guys to call.

Project Management

Another service John explained to us was the whole project management of computer hardware and he gave me a good example of how a local business in Gorey was opening up a new shop in the shopping centre and needed a new point of sale system, network, server, phone system, cctv and backup system. The owner needed to concentrate in setting up of the shop and get an expert in to advise and supervise the expansion project. Glasgorman Computers came in, worked with the shop owner and was able to do all the tech talk with the suppliers and companies installing the different systems.

Educated to all of their services we set about creating a website to suit their company profile and structure. Learning exactly what a client does is what I call website design, without knowing what someone really does how can we give them what they need!

Services Provided

• Website Design
• Domain Management
• Web Hosting
• Web Marketing
• Link Building
• Search Engine Submittion

www.glasgorman.com

We have worked on a number of websites for different packaging companies over the years, from actual production line suppliers to the suppliers of actual packaging products. This time it’s the latter, a great packaging company based in Arklow in Co. Wicklow called Paramount Packaging.

Paramount are a huge supplier in Ireland and Europe of retail packaging, food & industrial packaging, security packaging, refuse recycle reuse, marketing packaging materials, protective packaging , parasafe and marketing merchandise.

We have created a fully content managed website to allow the company to keep their site fresh with the volume of products they supply. The site is very visual and extensive use of a images needed to be used to display all their products.

Services supplied to Paramount include

• Website Design
• Web Hosting
• Consultancy
• Web Marketing
• Training

We would like to wish the management and the staff in Arklow the best of luck with the new website.

www.paramount.ie

Unique Gift Ideas.

Bates Restaurant Rathdrum

Earlier this year we were delighted to be approached by a great restaurant in Wicklow called Bates Restaurant in Rathdrum in Wicklow. We created a site for the guys and all went well. We always plan for success with all our clients and expansion is always on the horizon.

With more and more people looking on-line for unique gift ideas in Ireland we thought it would suit our friends in Wicklow to be one of the restaurants in Wicklow to have a availability to their customers to purchase gift vouchers online.

We met and discussed the idea and talked about how we could progress the site to being able to process secure transactions online, how the user would navigate through the site and the trustworthiness of the site.

Starting off the ideas by talking to our colleagues in WorldNet TPS and checking what the latest offers for small businesses to see how they could benefit from the growth of online sales. Choosing the best option for Bates we then got back to the guys there and let them know about what we needed including on-line merchant ID number from either Bank of Ireland or Elevon.

Then we purchased the Secure Certificate that is required (  this is the https://  ) bit in the web address that gives the site the secure padlock on your browser footer.

Working with our content management system we integrated our online shop facility and worked closely with the programmers from WorldNet TPS to make sure it all worked according to regulations and securely.

The Restaurant is now open for business 24 hours a day and accepts Credit Card transactions from VISA, Master Card and Laser Debit cards in Ireland.

www.BatesRestaurant.ie

Best of luck with the new upgraded site lads.

Dave

Yes, it’s true they havent gone away and in fact we’ve found a few here in Wexford. Driving to meet a client for lunch the other day I noticed a sign near Gorey advertising a new business currently under construction. It’s a fairly big development with massive sign so you guess that they have looked at every aspect of the growth of this project.

Living in the area, I was aware that the planning permission for this had been in the local newspapers nearly 5 years ago and they are breaking ground now and starting the build. On returning to the office I Google’d the projects name only to find that someone has recently “Cyber Squatted” their domain name, well the international version is gone and the person who has registered the name has hidden their name, thus indicating that they hiding the fact that they are behind this. (We know who they are as they famous in the area for this)

The Irish domain name is still available to register but this take a little more paper work as you need to prove that you are related to the name of the domain by either having a letter from an accountant or solicitor or by having a registered Trading name or a partnership or a limited company with the Companies Office in Ireland.

The domain could end up being a website that diverts traffic away from the real owners business and making them either pay for the domain or else making them pay for advertising on it. We have seen this on the other side of Gorey town where a similar Cyber Squatting event took place.

If you are starting a business or registering a new company in Wexford, please be aware that there are unscrupulous people out there who are trying to earn money off your ideas and your investment.

Call Dave Jordan of Cada Media Ltd in Goreytoday to give you all the options in domain name protection and on-line brand protection.

Tel: 053 9430748

This is one of those questions that I get asked all the time, usually it’s on a high stool sitting in the Taravie on a Friday night in courtown.! but it’s relevent to everyone in a recession. A website is not the answer to solving a businesses sales, but it will help if it’s used right. Remember a website is a tool, the more you use it the better you get with it and the more benefit you get out of it.

Search Engines are changing the way the index the web every day, they look for different things and its always a case of the goal posts are moving, that’s why I have to remind clients that a website will give you what you put into it.

Let’s look at why we provide our clients with content management systems, we do this because we recommend that in order to be able to update your website, its best to be able to do it yourself. Secondly because we believe this is what search engines like to see. They know that sites have the ability to be updated easily and we believe they now expect it.

If you have a website and you don’t update it, you are effectively telling the search engines that you couldn’t be bothered or you dont care and thus you dont care about the clients of the search engines. So Google for example we believe see’s websites like newspapers with the ability to be published every day.

Do you read the newspaper twice?

No, neither do we and neither does a search engine want to really. Remember search engines read your competitors websites each day too, so do they update their site, if so then a search engine might prefer their site as it’s got the latest information about a product or service it read about on another site somewhere else in the world.

~if this is all a bit too much for you, let Cada Media show you how we can help you keep on top of it all. Call Dave Jordan today on  053 9430748

We get asked all the time what is the best photo editing software and of course it easy to say PhotoShop by Adobe, but this is not practicle for your average Joe, as it is not easy to use, it is not cheap to buy and needs training to get the most of it. It also needs to be installed on a specific pc.

The best option I can recommend to people who want to do the basics to images such as reducing the size of the file, in terms of megabyte size and in width and height and maybe saving a large image to an image thay can use to insert into their website would be an online software as a service called pixlr.com. This is ideal for our clients who are on the move and want to edit images from their 12 mega pixel cameras that are too large to insert in the website via the content management system

This online tool has a number of options, you can use it in Pixlr Express mode to do the very basics or you can enter into the more complex tool to really do the same kind of things you would like to do in Photoshop.

Enjoy !

http://www.pixlr.com

We had a meeting today in which the client told me that he had a Telephone call from Google this morning asking him if he needed help spending the Voucher they had send him. We have spoken about this before about Vouchers from Google but were interested to hear that the caller who identified himself as being a staff member from google in London.

Is this true?

If you have received a call from Google please can you let me know, as we hear of scams and dodgy companies in the UK calling Irish companies trying to sell them the Top position in Google for a small monthly fee also known as Google Adwords Campaigns

The client told him that we were looking after that for them, but I am still unsure if Google would actually call.

Please let me know if you have received a call from Google, Call Dave Jordan 053 9430748 or email dave at cadamedia.ie and tell me more . .

If you have received an email in the past 2 days from us telling you that you that your mailbox has been deactivated please note that this is not actually from ourselves, but rather an atempt by a spam bot to penetrate our new servers. The attachment mail is a text file letting you know that the .exe and .zip attachment with the email has been removed from your email.

We suspect that this went out to about 2,000 email addresses.

Your Email is fine, the fact that you got the mail is proof that it is not in fact “deactivated” but if you need any clarification please don’t hesitate in calling the office to confirm.

Dave Jordan  – 053 9430748

We had an interesting email today from a 3rd year college student asking us to help them with a project they are working on. The project is questioning if Auctioning or Estate Agents Websites are dead? She was wondering if there is any point in a business involved in selling or letting property should bother having their own website, when property websites such as Daft.ie or MyHome.ie or Globrix.ie etc

As they day progressed we were in touch with a company involved in property lettings and it was interesting again to see that they have actually stopped listing their properties on their website and instead now seem to only list them on 1 property website. They also said they get few enquiries via their website. . . well no surprise there really. We were astonished and really amazed that they has basically given up on the Internet and given in to just putting all their eggs in 1 basket.

People don’t research online and they don’t use Google!?!

This was the impression I got on the phone about this industry and with hand on my heart I have to object. People research online, they do look at websites to do with the area they are looking to visit or buy in. Businesses have to remember how old their target market is and the type of education they have. They use computers, in fact they google from their mobiles! We have even created a new website for our area called Gorey and surrounding towns called North Wexford.com that is mobile compatible as we know it will be used by people on their mobiles.

In our industry we hear from many businesses around Ireland and get to hear how Enterprise Boards and Development Groups working with National Development Plan funds are working with businesses around Ireland to help them in a recession and yet some business feel they are out in the cold and on their own when it comes to getting more from the net.

Looking back on the day, we have to look at ourselves  . . . .  and question , are we doing enough for our clients in letting them know what they should be doing online, what websites they should be linking to and from, what social networks are important and up and coming. We do try to keep our company blog fresh with tips and ideas on everything Internet. We also publish on Facebook and have a Business page that we encourage our clients and others to become a fan.

Twittering is also huge these days as they are pushing their new search engine so we are also using twitter to communicate with our clients and suggest that they “Follow” our tweets on  www.twitter.com/cadamedia/

Where was I . . .

So, getting back to where are estate agents websites going, well we think they are going to survive, but in a newer more modern way. The Internet is very powerful and their websites are going to have to give more information than just listings as those are available from the bigger sites that are a database list of properties. The estate agent sites are going to have to be more advice and information driven. They are going to have to “Sell” rather than simply be a contact tool as property is no longer sold off the plans with young couples sleeping in their cars to make sure they are the first in line at show houses.

Estate Agents are evolving and showing their expertise in bringing sellers and buyers together. They are going to have to form relationships in order to do the negociations needed to bring both parties together to agree. Their websites are going to have to help do this partnership and use every means possible. Facebook, twitter, daft, youtube, they will all plan a part too. It’s not gonna be about a new app for a website, but rather a tool that will being everyone together, things like text messages to both parties via the site is something that has been in the UK for years and hasn’t caught on here.

Like any good business they will adapt to change or simply die.

Eco Energy Centre in Wexford.

We were proud to be approached by this new eco energy company in Wexford to create a website for their business. We started the process off by registering a domain name for them and securing www.FernGreen.ie then we created a web hosting pack to put up a basic holding page with their contact details while we designed their website. This also allows them to start to use the domain for emails which go through our server to. They immediately set up info@ferngreen.ie and used that for their business cards etc

We then called out to their new purpose build eco building in Ferns in Wexford to see for ourselves the example of an eco house they have for their showroom. The entire building is an amazing example of the use of Wind Turbines, Solar Panels and even a rubber type of slate tiles on the roof!

It was after an hour or so that I realised that this was a very serious project indeed. The whole building is a working model of how an eco energy efficient house should be like. The well informed staff were able to run through all the details to the pellet boiler heating systems to underfloor heating systems. Walking around the building I even noticed the recycled decking outside!

Armed with all these details I headed back into work and we created a menu structure that would incorporate all the products and services, from them being Solar Panel installers in Wexford to Wind Turbines suppliers in Wexford .

Services Provided:

• Domain Name Registration
• Website Hosting
• Consultancy
• Website Design
• Training
• Web Marketing
• Link Building

We would Like to wish Joe, John, Tommy, Margaret and the rest of the team the best of luck the new website and we will be checking in from time to time to make sure you are keeping it fresh and up to date with the content management system !

One of my clients email in this morning wondering if we could unlock this email is was due in. this is a scam bullshit email and I simply replied, spam / scam …delete it.

I suggest you yo the same, unless you are actually expecting a delivery, if so they would not send you a .exe program through the net, its an attached virus!

DELETE IT.

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From: DHL Service [mailto:clients email address was here]
Sent: 12 November 2009 11:11
To: real-name@was-here.ie
Subject: {Filename?} DHL Tracking Number 3YMH6JJY

Warning: This message has had one or more attachments removed
Warning: (3YMH6JJY.exe, 3YMH6JJY.zip).
Warning: Please read the “cadamedia-Attachment-Warning.txt” attachment(s)
for more information.

Dear customer!

The courier company was not able to deliver your parcel by your address.

You may pickup the parcel at our post office personaly.

The shipping label is attached to this e-mail.
Please print this label to get this package at our post office.

Thank you for attention.
DHL Express Services.

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Our scanner attached the following text file

This is a message from the MailScanner E-Mail Virus Protection Service
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The original e-mail attachment “3YMH6JJY.zip”
is on the list of unacceptable attachments for this site and has been
replaced by this warning message.

If you wish to receive a copy of the original attachment, please
e-mail helpdesk and include the whole of this message
in your request. Alternatively, you can call them, with
the contents of this message to hand when you call.

At Thu Nov 12 11:12:24 2009 the virus scanner said:
MailScanner: Executable DOS/Windows programs are dangerous in email (3YMH6JJY.exe)
No programs allowed (3YMH6JJY.exe)

Note to Help Desk: Look on the cadamedia
(host.thewebguy.ie) MailScanner in /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20091112 (message 1N8XaY-00070b-B5).
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Postmaster
Cadamedia
www.cadamedia.ie
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This is a scam, delete the email if you are not expecting a package from DHL,
If it is real expect them to give you a call.