21 Dec

School Websites

by admin | in Web design Mayo
School Websites

Are you a school looking for a way to communicate with your staff and students? Why not consider a multi-platform website that will easily allow you to add news and events quickly and easily. We have worked with a number of schools to provide such a service.

Example of our school websites:

  • http://castlereacs.com – Castlerea Community School, Castlerea, Co Roscommon.
  • http://cbsroscommon.ie – Roscommon CBS, Roscommon.
  • http://presheadford.ie – Presentation College, Headford, Co Galway.
  • http://colaistemhuire.org – Coláiste Mhuire, Ballygar, Co Galway.

So why not contact us today

24 Nov

Digital Security Certificates (SSL)

by admin | in Web design Kerry
Digital Security Certificates (SSL)

Trust is essential in today’s world wide web – even for non-ecommerce sites. Google and many others now recommend that all websites should have a security certificate, and they give priority to those sites that do.

Traditionally, users looked for secure web communications with banks and e-commerce sites, when entering credit card details or personal information. However, several initiatives led by industry and advocacy groups have encouraged the use of ‘HTTPS everywhere’ in recent years.

As the web has become more social, almost all web communication now involves the use of ‘personally identifiable information’ (PII) in some way – even when we’re not actually sharing financial information.

Any piece of compromised information, however small, can be used in ‘social engineering’ attacks to contribute to personation or fraud.

As a result, HTTPS is fast becoming the norm for all web communication, and digital certificates are now an essential requirement. Websites without SSL are increasingly at a disadvantage. Google already ranks such sites lower in search results, and they will soon begin flagging them in red, meaning ‘not secure’, in the Chrome web browser.

05 Sep

Gallagher Motors

by admin | in Web design Mayo
Gallagher Motors

www.gallaghersmotors.com

Gallagher Motors provide the servicing of all cars and light commercials and all types of repairs. Batteries, Anti-Freeze, Tyres, Exhausts, Clutches Brakes, Timing Belts Focusing, Headlights.

Tyre Centre / Puncture Repair

Gallagher Motors are providers of a huge range of tyres and stock a large array of well known tyre brands, these include Continental, Bridgestone, Pirelli, Dunlop, Michelin, Barum & Sportiva.

Gallagher Motors Fleet Management

Gallagher Motors planned preventative fleet maintenance service packages maximize the performance, safety, and fuel efficiency of your fleet. … You can count on everything a preventive and predictive maintenance plan needs to keep your fleet (Car & Van) running

Snap On Engine Diagnostics

Our team of professionally qualified engineers, using our modern workshop that’s equipped with the latest diagnostics technology

Gallagher Motors Recovery Service

Gallagher Motors provide a 24 hour vehicle recovery service locally using our tow truck. We also provide a car transporters
service

11 Jul

Trading Online Vouchers ( Website Grants)

by admin | in Web design Kerry, Web design Mayo, Web design Roscommon
Trading Online Vouchers ( Website Grants)

With the trend ever increasing towards online spending it is estimated that only 23% of small Irish businesses are engaged in any meaningful way in e-commerce sales. For businesses employing less than ten people this percentage could be even lower. It is now believed that of online purchases made in Ireland that 70% of these are done in overseas markets.

There is now an urgency to ensure that businesses recognise that this is happening and that they are encouraged and supported to correctly respond to this digital reality.

Eligibility Criteria

Vouchers will be available to a maximum value of €2,500 or 50% eligible expenditure (exclusive of VAT), whichever is the lesser;

  •     Voucher approval must be gained prior to incurring any expense;
  •     Own labour is not an eligible expense;
  •     Third party costs only will be considered;
  •     All third party/supplier invoices must contain proper business details (e.g. Tax and Business Registration details).

The vouchers are targeted at businesses with the following profile:

Limited online trading presence;

  •     Less than 10 employees;
  •     Applicants must be registered and trading for minimum of 12 months;
  •     Turnover less than €2million.

Ineligible projects include:

  •     Charitable status;
  •     Commercial semi-state companies;
  •     ”Not for profit” organisations;
  •     Trade associations;
  •     Company representation bodies such as Chambers of Commerce.

What can The Online Trading Vouchers be used for:

  •     The development or upgrade of an e-commerce website such as implementing online payments or booking systems;
  •     Purchase of Internet related software;
  •     Online advertising;
  •     Development of an app;
  •     Implementation of a digital marketing strategy;
  •     Consultation with ICT experts for early stage adopters of online strategy;
  •     Training/skills development specifically to establish and manage an online trading activity.

Vouchers cannot be used for:

  •     Development of brochure websites;
  •     Purchase of non-internet related software;
  •     Anything other than online trading related activity.

Voucher Application

  •     Read the terms and conditions;
  •     Complete and sign application form and return to Local Enterprise Office
  •     Enclose copies of three quotations in respect of each proposed element of work.

Digital Voucher Brochure available here.

Trading Online Voucher – eForm Available (.docx) HERE.

 

Contact Jeremy Cullen, Local Enterprise Office Roscommon on 090 6626263 to find out more information regarding the Trading Online Voucher Scheme.

Contact Local Enterprise Office Mayo on 094 9047555 to find out more information regarding the Trading Online Voucher Scheme.

 

15 May

Are you under threat from Ransomware?

by admin | in Web design Kerry, Web design Mayo, Web design Roscommon
Are you under threat from Ransomware?

What Is Ransomware?

Ransomware is a kind of malicious script or software that installs itself on your computer without your knowledge. Once it’s installed and running, it will lock down your system and won’t allow you to access any files or programs on that computer. Usually, as in this current WannaCry exploit, it will alert you to the lockdown with an impossible-to-ignore pop-up screen which informs you that your computer is being held for ransom. To unlock your system and regain access to the computer being held hostage, the lock screen informs you that you must purchase an unlock tool or decryption key from the hacker.

Where Did This Threat Originate?

In this case, Microsoft has been aware of the vulnerability since March 2017, when it published a Security Bulletin covering the potential risk. According to the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, early indicators seem to point to the attack originating in China, but more information is needed.

How Can You Tell If Your Computer Is Infected?

The most obvious way to tell if your computer has been affected is if you are seeing a ransomware pop-up screen when you start up your computer. But because we don’t know how long the malware sits on your computer or network, not seeing this pop-up isn’t necessarily an indication that you haven’t been infected. The bottom line: if your Windows computer has connected to a shared network, such as those found in schools, public places, cafes and businesses, and you don’t have complete control over every computer on that network and haven’t been keeping Windows up-to-date, your computer may be infected.

How to Protect Yourself From the Vulnerability

According to Microsoft a fix for this vulnerability was released on March 14th for all affected versions of Windows. If you are running Windows and have automatic updates enabled you should be okay. If you don’t and haven’t updated recently you should update to the most recently released version immediately. It is important to note that unsupported versions of Windows, like XP, did not receive this security update. Those systems should either be isolated or shut down.

Please pass this along to your friends and family. Those that are less technical may not have updates auto-enabled, and may need a helping hand updating their operating system.

02 May

Irish Atlantic Coast Tours website launched

by admin | in Web design Roscommon
Irish Atlantic Coast Tours website launched

We are delighted to announce the launch of http://irishatlanticcoasttours.ie/ AMW built a responsive website with an integrated booking system allowing the website to promote tours of the Wild Atlantic Way with video promotion.

Irish Atlantic Coast Tours was established in 2017 to provide tours of the Irish Atlantic Coast to small and medium sized groups.

We specialize in providing exclusive tours of the enchanting Irish Atlantic Coast. The owner, Martin, takes each tour himself ensuring a personalized and unique experience for each tour group. Martin offers individualized tours at competitive prices lasting 9 days.

18 Apr

Castlerea Community School website launched

by admin | in Web design Roscommon
Castlerea Community School website launched

Just before Easter, AMW Website design Roscommon launched the new Castlerea Community School website. www.castlereacs.com, Designed and developed as an interactive school noticeboard the website handles all the day to day news for the School as well as integrating the newly established twitter account. It is hoped that student, teachers, and parents will find the new website a useful tool and allow all to be well informed of the many school events and activities.

This is the second website AMW has designed for Castlerea Community School and we are delighted to continue this relationship with the School. With this and having already developed other school websites, AMW will be delighted to discuss your school’s needs, we can update and maintain your existing website or develop a new website from scratch. Call us today on 086 4008087 or email your outline to allen@amw.ie we will be delighted to assist you

07 Mar

Know your visits and views

by admin | in Web design Kerry
Know your visits and views

Do you know your visits from your views?

There is no doubt Google Analytics can be confusing but this simple definition guide I found on tendenci.com will hopefully clarify some of the terms used. If you still need help or guidance feel free to give me a call on 086 4008087 or email allen@amw.ie and see what Google Analytic’s can do for your website. 

1. Visit – This is the one piece of information that you really want to know. A visit is one individual visitor who arrives at your web site and proceeds to browse. A visit counts all visitors, no matter how many times the same visitor may have been to your site.

2. Unique Visit – This is also called Visit by Cookie. A unique visit will tell you which visits from item 1 are visiting your site for the first time. The website can track this as unique by the IP address of the computer. *The number of unique visits will be far less that visits because a unique visit is only tracked if cookies are enabled on the visitors computer*

3. Page View – This is also called Impression.  Once a visitor arrives at your website, they will search around on a few more pages. On average, a visitor will look at about 2.5 pages. Each individual page a visitor views is tracked as a page view.

4. Hits – The real Black Sheep in the family. The average website owner thinks that a hit means a visit but it is very different (see item 1).  A Hit actually refers to the number of files downloaded on your site, this could include photos, graphics, etc. Picture the average web page, it has photos (each photo is a file and hence a hit) and lots of buttons (each button is a file and hence a hit). On average, each page will include 15 hits.

To give you an example –  Using the average statistics listed above, 1 Visit to an average web site will generate 3 Page Views and 45 Hits. 

 

See more at: https://www.tendenci.com/help-files/meaning-of-hits-visits-page-views-and-traffic-sources-web-analytics-definitions/#sthash.kRtBg5XP.dpuf

23 Feb

Video Promotion added to concordentertainment.com

by admin | in Web design Mayo
Video Promotion added to concordentertainment.com

“Concord” are a Professional, Energetic, Versatile, Very Experienced & Great Fun wedding band who promise not to disappoint. This Mayo Wedding Band also plays in Galway, Sligo, Roscommon, Donegal, Cavan, Westmeath and all over Ireland.

This week we added a video promotional header the band had recorded, they uploaded the video to vimeo and we integrated it into their website. Video promotion is an excellent way to advertise your product or service. View the promotion at  http://concordentertainment.com and see how this could work for you.

We can happily design a website for you that can incorporate video giving you a promotional edge over the competition.