Over the past few years, the use of online website builders such as Wix, Squarespace, and Shopify has exploded in popularity. These web builders offer users an easy and affordable way to create a website without the need for coding or technical skills. However, there are potential dangers associated with using these platforms that should be taken into consideration. So, should you use Wix? Squarespace? Shopify? In this article, we’ll explore the problems associated with online website builders and introduce WordPress as a safer and better alternative for Irish business websites.
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Freedom-Scooters.ie Website Goes Live
Freedom Scooters is a business based in Riverchapel Co. Wexford specialising in the sale of mobility scooters and accessories.
They were in the market for a fully functional e-commerce website, built to the highest of standards, easy to use and easy to manage. Their product catalogue is quite small in total but the value of their average sale is quite high. With that in mind, their customers needed to have complete confidence and be informed before committing to a sale and we used some techniques in this regard. For example we defined attributes for each of their mobility scooters (number of wheels, storage options, colours available etc.) and implemented a comparison function across the products for these attributes so that customers can see at a glance what the differences are. This is a very useful tool to help customers make a choice on an expensive item.
We also implemented Humm payment options onto the online shop. Humm is a well known online credit facility that allows customers spread the cost of their purchase over time. Ideal for more expensive online purchases.
Overall it was a great project to work on and we were delighted to launch the site earlier this month.
See the result here.
Hedging.ie Website Goes Live
Hedging.ie is a hedging and trees company based in Carnew Co. Wicklow. They’ve been in business for years running their online shop on WooCommerce.
For various reasons such as site performance, usability & design amongst others, they decided to upgrade their site during the summer of 2022. This was a significant undertaking as the old site was quite large and they had invested a lot of money on search engine optimiastion (SEO) over the years.
We built a brand new WordPress / WooCommerce online store from the ground up for them. The old site was quite bloated with outdated and unnecessary plugins so we rationalised all of this. We brought across all customers, orders, products & images to the new site meaning that customer accounts and preferences were kept. We also carried out a lot of work on site performance and increased page speed loading times significantly. A challenging but rewarding project and delighted to have successfully launched in the last month.
See the result here.
Ballinakill Outdoor Swimming Pool Website Goes Live
Ballinakill is based in Co. Laois and the community there have run an outdoor swimming pool for years. The venture has been very successful and up until this year, all bookings were handled manually over the phone or WhatsApp. As visitor/member numbers and complexity increased, it became more time consuming, error-prone and unworkable.
They required a more automated solution that would enforce their capacity thresholds, whilst being easy to use and informative. We introduced smart coupons – that were emailed to each member after they had successfully signed up for a season ticket. This can be used by the member at checkout to complete their booking without paying.
The system is easy to use by the members, and the administrators who can easily manage bookings. We implemented a booking export tool also which allows them to easily export bookings from the system into CSV format which allows them to easily check in members and guests as they arrive.
The system will email members and guests to confirm their bookings, and will send out automated emails to remind them of their upcoming sessions. It also allows for easy rescheduling and cancelling.
All in all a much more efficient system for the folks running the pool bookings.
See the result here.
Wexford ‘.IE’ Domain Registrations On The Rise
According to the latest report from .IE, Ireland’s country domain manager, Co. Wexford based businesses, organisations, clubs and individuals registered 1,678 .ie domains in 2021. This is a whopping 32% increase on pre-pandemic levels in 2019. Two of the most frequently used keywords for domain registration were ‘cleaning’ and ‘roofing’. On a wider level, 36,875 new .ie domains were registered in Leinster and 57,530 nationwide.
Government lockdown policies in 2021 and business adaptation are the chief drivers for this increase according to David Curtin – chief executive of .IE.
“Businesses in Wexford and across Ireland are investing in new websites, integrating e-commerce technology, and making use of productivity-enhancing tools all year round because they now recognise the huge role they play in profitability and customer acquisition,”
Cybersecurity was also mentioned in the report and it states that 54% of all .ie websites are secured with SSL / TLS.
Mr Curtin acknowledged that this figure was “encouraging” but stressed the importance for .ie domain holders to do as much as possible to protect their site visitors from cyberattacks.
“We urge all businesses in Wexford to review their cybersecurity in 2022.”
Sources : –
https://www.weare.ie/ie-domain-profile-report/
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Max Nutrition Website Goes Live
Max Nutrition, based in Donegal, is a distributer for one of Europe’s largest supplier of food supplements and functional foods. They were looking for a full e-commerce website that was beautiful and easy to use.
Max Nutrition have a large portfolio of stock across many categories. Having these products clearly defined and easily searchable was a big requirement and the need for upsells and cross sells was very important. The result was a beautiful, functional, easy to navigate full e-commerce offering.
Some of the features include
- Functional & beautiful website
- Full e-commerce offering with online payments through Stripe & PayPal
- Shipping costs calculated at checkout
- Coupon management
- Blog
- Social media integration
- Content can be easily managed through the backend
- Various reports and dashboards are available on the backend
- Fully GDPR compliant
- Comprehensive user manual provided
Window World Website Goes Live
We’ve been working with Riverchapel-based Window World for the last number of months and this week we’re delighted to launch WindowWorld.ie.
This is a sleek and beautiful representation of the Window World business and showcases their products and services in a clear and intuitive fashion. Products and categories are clearly laid out in a catalogue style layout with clear descriptions and attractive & professional photographs. Each product invites the customer to make enquiries directly from the product page which is emailed directly to the team at Window World.
We’ve also enabled automated electronic invoices on the backend of the site. This is a powerful system for the folks at Window World to manage their invoicing easily. They can maintain a customer database, generate estimates and invoices at the touch of a button and automate the sending of these emails to their customers. Customers can view invoices easily online and the business will see the benefit of digitizing this once time-consuming manual process.
Some of the features include
- Functional & beautiful e-commerce website
- Well structured rich catalogue of products / services
- Email automation (product enquiries)
- Products clearly categorised
- Customer invoicing
- Products can be easily managed through the backend
- Various reports and dashboards are available on the backend
- Fully GDPR compliant
- Comprehensive user manual provided
All Storage Website Goes Live
All Storage is a brand new storage facility based in County Wexford. They offer personal and commercial storage solutions in their Craanford premises with 24 hour surveillance and 7 day access.
This is an e-commerce site – but a little different to most sites we create in that the product / service is subscription based. Customers sign up to a subscription, provide their payment details and then once a month will be automatically billed through the website (using Stripe Payments). Customers can log on to their account at any stage and cancel their subscription or change their payment details.
We launched the site for All Storage a few weeks ago.
Some of the features include
- Functional & beautiful e-commerce website
- Automated storage availability management
- Email automation (new orders, recurring payments etc.)
- Products clearly categorised
- Subscription services
- Online Payments
- Products can be easily managed through the backend
- Various reports and dashboards are available on the backend
- Fully GDPR compliant
- Comprehensive user manual provided
Kelly Scents Website Goes Live
Kelly Scents is the brainchild and passion of Boolavogue woman Kelly Curry. Her business specialises in luxury candles, scents, fragrances and wax burners. She was looking for an e-commerce solution that would allow her to sell her products and manage the store and stock levels easily.
One of the things she needed was the ability for her customers to create gift boxes by mixing and matching some of the store products (burners, snap bars, candles, bath bombs). We delivered this requirement in a sleek, easy-to-follow way.
Earlier this week we were delighted to launch the new website and online store for Kelly.
Some of the features include
- Functional & beautiful e-commerce website
- Automated stock management
- Email automation (new orders, orders dispatched etc.)
- Products clearly categorised
- Mix & match hampers / gift boxes
- Online Payments
- Shipping calculated at checkout
- Blog
- Products can be easily managed through the backend
- Various reports and dashboards are available on the backend
- Fully GDPR compliant
- Comprehensive user manual provided
County Wexford Community Workshop Website Goes Live
We’ve been working with County Wexford Community Workshop for the last number of months on an exciting web project that we were delighted to launch this week.
County Wexford Community Workshop is an Enniscorthy based organisation providing services to children and adults with intellectual disability and their families. The organisation encompasses Kilcannon Garden Centre & Restaurant, Astro Active Centre and Bellefield Design. These are commercial ventures that were set up to financially support our services and to provide employment.
They had a website for years that served them well, but they felt they needed to step it up for 2021 and beyond and improve their online presence. They also wanted to take their first step into the world of e-commerce. We were delighted to be chosen by them and help on their journey.
This week we launched their new website and we are very happy with the final result. The result is a very comprehensive website covering three distinct businesses and the overall organisation.
Some of the features include
- Functional & Beautiful e-commerce website for Kilcannon Garden Centre, Astro Active Centre & Bellefield design
- Online bookings
- Automated stock management
- Integration into ePOS systems
- Email automation (new orders, orders dispatched etc.)
- Products clearly categorised
- Stock control
- Blog
- Products can be easily managed through the backend
- Various reports and dashboards are available on the backend
- Fully GDPR compliant
- Comprehensive user manual provided
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