Website Designers in Wexford, Ireland – Cada Media Ltd

Just a short note to our readers to say that due to the volume of work we have on at the moment we will be unable to continue writing as often as we would like and will be using the blog for news updates about our new products and services we are launching in February and March.

I’ll miss this old girl and her daily stats about life online in Ireland ! sniff sniff.

Definitely our biggest inquiry so far this month has been people asking to set up an online shop or payment gateway for their business using the net. We had a business from Kildare in with us today going over all the options available to them. We looked at VISA machines for their shop to maybe using an online virtual VISA machine going through a secure server on https://pay-here.bla

This would mean that as a shop they could take payments over the phone using any Internet connected pc or using their own website in the shape of an online shop. Today’s meeting is the 7th meeting of this type since we came back after the holidays. No other year has shown such a push for online sales. Maybe people are finally understanding that business and money is not all about bricks and motar and that just because a business using the Internet does not take away from what people preceive as the real world,

The Internet is the real world and that’s where your potential customers are looking for your services, now let us take you through the next stage and be able to take a payment off them for a product or service you supply.

Call Dave Jordan from Cada Media Ltd on 053 9430748 to start getting your business online.

Great news for Ireland that one of the worlds leading online transaction companies are expanding their staff from 1100 in Dublin by a further 100 new jobs, announced today. So listening to people talk about the recession and saying that no one is hiring is wrong.

Business has not stopped it has just moved online.

If your business is not online yet and taking advantage of being able to accept payments via gateways like paypal or realex or worldnet then we would suggest starting restructuring your business soon. For help using the net for online payments call us today.

Great news from RTE about their website and it’s great player allowing you to catch a show up to 20 days after it was aired. The website is now available outside of Ireland so that should really crank up the hits and i’m sure their advertisers will be delighted with the news.

Well done RTE.

http://www.rte.ie/player/

On a side now, the BBC website that does not allow Irish viewers to view it’s shows online. They explain that it is due to legal issues regarding “rights” etc.

Before you get upset or to stop any confusion amongst the people to read this blog, it’s actually really simple we are looking for a “Flash Animator” to work with us on a number of new projects.

If you are experienced Flasher we are looking for you. Experience is a must, we get many Multi media students applying for jobs and they have created one or two flash elements in college, and that’s great, we need people with examples of their work please.

Call Dave Jordan 053 9430748 for details

We are often asked if we can sponsor a website or give a free website to people. We do sponsor websites sometimes, but it depends on the site, if its a registered charity or maybe the local lost pet group then yes we might be in a situation to help, but if you are a small club or group then maybe you could look at using on online web site building tool. We have looked at these before but one that we see being used a good bit in Wexford is one called Weebly.com

Built the website yourself.

Website creations tools are not new, they have been around for many years now, but we hear that weebly.com is an easy to use , fast method of creating a website yourself in a few minutes. Allowing you to update it with images, text and videos.

It’s not what we use and I wouldn’t recommend it for any real business as its just a basic web-page builder. Please don’t mistake this for being the “be all and end all” of website development and think that it’s gonna put us out of business. It’s not. This is for building a basic web-page, its not an online marketing strategy to gain you more sales leads and growing your business over the next 5 years and mentoring your businesses digital strategy. It’s a web-page and only that.

Don’t expect to get support or help in it’s creation or promotion.

It is however a good step for struggling businesses who can’t afford any budget on using the net to help their business.

Once you have the site built you can come to use to help promote it and get it listed in search engines and local directories.

We would like to mention to our clients and for people looking to have their website reviewed or redesigned this year to please take in mind that we will need to notice before you wish to have the website worked on.

Website Reviews

Sitting down and going through your site stats, the links in and the general traffic of a website can take a number of hours, then its time to plan the future of the site and the type of traffic you wish to bring in. There are many factors to be considered and looked at.

To this end, I would like to ask you to please make an appointment or email us as we can not just drop everything and look at your request. We have commitments we have made from November and December and they must be looked at first.

January is a great time of the year to look at how you are promoting your business as so is September when the kids go back to school.

If you are an existing client then email me directly and we will schedule in an appointment and if you are a potential new client give me a quick call and I can arrange an appointment for you to come in to discuss you needs.

I dont mean to put anyone off getting in touch, but rather am just trying to be realistic, we can’t get a phone call on Tuesday and deliver a new website to you on the Friday,  not when we have 14 others already being programmed.

Thanks and sorry about the Rant ! Dave Jordan 053 9430748

Listening to the news today about how the snow today has cost businesses in Dublin an estimated €80 million, according to Dublin Chamber of Commerce.  I find it interesting to see also that all the news and images and videos are being reported about it were mostly on the Internet. It got me thinking that many people often forget the Internet is never closed for business, it doesn’t call in sick, it doesn’t spend 3 hours in traffic getting to work.

Open for business 24/7

Being able to communicate your message, make appointments, sell products and accept payments online using your website and the Internet is a great way of future proofing your business to be able to do business even when your not physically there. The snow over the past few days has been a fantastic advertisement for using the net in business. Companies are able to effectively stay open, ok if they are selling products, they will still take a few days to be delivered, but if its services and booking for products then the net is ideal.

If you are a business owner and ever wondered about setting up a website for your company or moving your existing website to the next level,  then think about how the snow effected businesses in the South east today and how if your website was capable of accepting payments then the snow wouldn’t matter to you.

Be that company in 2010, Contact Dave Jordan from Cada Media to get the snow ball rolling !

Just another quick reminder to let the clients know who might be back in work for the first time this year that they must change their VAT rate from 21.5% to 21% from now on. Online shops should have changed from the 1st January 2010.

Happy New Year everyone.

We would like to wish all our clients a very Merry christmas and a Happy New Year, We are now closed till January 4th 2010.

Any support issues can be emailed to support@cadameida.ie and if you have email issues then call and lease a message on 053 9430748

Best Wishes from Dave, Roz, Mary & Sinead

As any of our regular readers know we are always saying how “The web is Everywhere”.

Well no more so than on mobile phones and with the looming Christmas gift giving season upon us there is no avoiding speak of Apps and Downloads etc.

Google have recently launched their Google Mobile App which allows a user to search for anything by simply speaking into the phone.

This Free service should certainly give the chaps at 11811 and 11850 a run for their money eh?

No longer having to worry about typing errors or how to spell ‘phoenix’ anymore, you can just say “hotels in gorey’ and the results will speak for themselves.

After all, those with the most up to date online presence are surely the most up to date businesses in that sector?…

The Web IS Everywhere…Be part of it…

We would like to inform our clients that we will be closing on Wednesday the 23rd December at 5pm and opening again on the 4th January 2010

Support issues will be carried out as normal by emailing support@cadamedia.ie with the problem, if the problem is your email then telephone 053 9430738 as we will be checking the messages each day.

We would like to wish all out clients a Happy Christmas & a Happy New Year

With all the bitching and moaning about the changes to the Facebook privacy policy we have to ask ourselves why are they now changing as they have always been one of the most private social medial websites for people to network and meet up.

We believe that it ultimately has to do with search engines now wanting to incorporate content from social media websites into their results. recently we have heard news of Twitter doing a deal with the business networking website “Linked In” to allow that website to bring in its content.

All the Major websites are doing it, MSN live chat now allows you to bring in your MySpace information into your account there. The use of a login system called Open ID allows you to have one account from facebook for example and that can be used on loads of other sites, making it easier to integrate larger and larger sites together.

Facebook is estimated to have nearly 1,000,000 users in Ireland by Christmas 2009, so now they have 1/4 of the population, they also have what all hungry search engines need. . . Content. We talked about content for web last week and how it will be needed more and more in the coming years.

Google Live Search

This is a new feature of Google’s algorithm that basically reads social media websites such as Twitter and uses its content as the results for questions searched for. So this is a big step away from google showing your websites it read through last night and showing you the “latest news”. Well if its from last night then its not the “latest” but if its from Twitter or F it is the latest. Facebook and Twitter are no strapped to a computer desk any more, we carry them around with us, they are now part of most mobile phones with all of us feeding them each time we click on a letter.

Doing a search today, google replied with a live twitter feed as the first results and then the normal listing from websites it would have indexed the day before. This is Google specifically pushing the social media websites as they have the “latest” content and this is why they need to read our content on Facebook!

For more information on how the interweb is changing call 053 9430748 to make an appointment.

This is one of those questions we don’t get asked but think we should!

Setting up a website

This can be a “next day” delivery if you wish to have a “one page” website or it could be 3 months time if you wish to have an application developed and created for you.  There are many factors that people may not have realised that need to be considered. Heres a few questions we need to ask you:

• Have you registered the company yet?
• Have you registered the domain yet?
• Have you got the hosting setup?
• Have you got the content ready?
• Have you got the site text ready?
• Have you got the images ready?
• Have you got the logo designed yet?
• Do you know what you need?
• Are you just shopping for prices!
• Are you still reading this?

As you can see that is just the basics, we need to know much much more, but these are some of the first questions we must ask clients when they come into the office.

We had a call last week looking for a full content managed online shop for Christmas this year! Totally out of the questions, firstly because it takes at least 15 days to get an online merchant ID from the processing bank, be it Bank of Ireland or Evalon. Then once we have that we must set up the website and test it.

Then the shop must have it virtual online shelves packed, whos doing that? usually the client does that during the training we carry out.

If you are looking to set up a website with a designer please give them at least 3 to 4 weeks notice for a proper website, one pages can be done quicker but real sites take time. Also the web designer might also have other projects on, its the other type of developers, the one’s dealing in bricks and morter who are not busy these days!!! lol

If your thinking about setting up a website, why not give Cada Media Ltd a call on 053 9430747 and we can talk you through some the details you will need.

It was reported online today ( 10 December 09) that one of the oldest Journals in the States is going to shut it doors on the printed version after over 108 years in circulation.

Editor & Publisher is an American journal that reports on the “Print Journalism” industry. Sadly it looks like the publication that reports on other publications is going. With many other USA Newspapers and Magazines going bust in the past 18 months, its not long before we have to look at our print industry here in Ireland.

The Irish Press is now long gone and in fact I doubt any teenager would even know the name, they might if they listened in History class all right. But if we stay on that thought about teenagers and information we must think about where would they look for news and information these days.

Have a guess?

They’d buy their local regional news paper,  . . . don’t think so, they won’t be interested in the courts reports or the kids photos of the latest stage show. They would search online. How do I know . . . because I ask questions and over the past few weeks we have had a number of students from local community schools in the South East in on work experience. We interrogated them on their how they communicate, chat, text, email each other. One student then took out his iphone and logged into his own website and was able to update it as we were chatting!

The 90’s were about getting connected to the Internet, (In Ireland is was indigo.ie pushing the dial up connections)

The 2000’s have been about search engines battling for supremacy to be set up as their homepage.

2010 will be about “content” and online journalism, so if you are in the print industry. I would suggest you do what I did 10 years ago and get your content online. Over 1,000 people a week read this column or the online word for it . . . Blog

To help get your business online call Dave Jordan of Cada Media Ltd to day on 053 9430748