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Welcome to my portfolio website. I specialise in developing simple but functional websites for my clients.

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The Rural Housing Association Goes Live

Posted on Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 | No Comments » | all & work diary

The redesigned website that I have been developing for The Rural Housing Association in Omagh, Northern Ireland has gone live.

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Importance of Website Content for SEO

Posted on Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 | No Comments » | all & seo

Website content is one of the most important parts of any SEO. The content on your website is what you say about yourself and the products that you are looking to provide to visitors to the website.

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Green Day … I Seen the Light!

Posted on Saturday, July 3rd, 2010 | No Comments » | all & music

I have been lucky enough to witness the fantastic Green Day live in concert at the SECC , Glasgow (Mon 21st June 2010) and I must say they were unbelievable.

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New H.McLarnon & Son Website Goes Live

Posted on Friday, July 2nd, 2010 | No Comments » | all & work diary

I have just launched the new revamped website for H.McLarnon & son Ltd. H.McLarnon and Son are one of the largest family run roofing and cladding companies in Northern Ireland catering for the commercial, domestic, educational and …

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Shell Caribbean Cup 1994

Posted on Friday, July 2nd, 2010 | No Comments » | Bizarre & all

The Shell Caribbean Cup 1994 was the fifth edition of the Caribbean Cup, the football championship of the Caribbean.

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Correct use of Technology on Your Website – Part 1

Posted on Friday, June 25th, 2010 | No Comments » | all & seo

Having the correct technical set up is essential for any website to maximise its ranking potential. The first things that search engines request about your website are technological responses from your server.

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What is Ethical Search Engine Optimisation?

Posted on Friday, June 25th, 2010 | No Comments » | all & seo

Search Engines, like any other computer program, can be “tricked”. Anything that attempts to trick a search engine can be classed as unethical – often referred to as “black hat SEO”.

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What is Search Engine Optimisation?

Posted on Friday, June 25th, 2010 | No Comments » | all & seo

Ever wondered what people mean when they say Search Engine Optimisation? Well, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the process of increasing the relevance of website pages for specific search engine queries.

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How do search engines determine relevancy?

Posted on Friday, June 25th, 2010 | No Comments » | all & seo

For a document or page to be relevant to a search engine it needs to fulfill two main criteria. The first is that the web document must show itself to be relevant for the query and the Internet community must show it to be relevant for the query.

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WordPress Custom Fields

Posted on Friday, June 25th, 2010 | No Comments » | all & wordpress

I work a lot with custom fields in Wordpress when developing websites. Weather it be displaying thumbnails, background colours, CSS fixes or page titles, understanding how custom fields work is a vital part of using Wordpress.

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Setup of our new tropical fish aquarium

Posted on Sunday, April 25th, 2010 | No Comments » | all & tropical fish

Our new tropical fish aquarium arrived yesterday and we were quite excited about getting our aquarium up and running.

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Redesign of The Rural Housing Association Website

Posted on Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 | No Comments » | all & work diary

I have successfully captured the redesign of the The Rural Housing Association website. This will be the third redesign that I have carried out for this company.

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New addition to my apartment

Posted on Sunday, April 18th, 2010 | No Comments » | all & tropical fish

Me and my girlfriend decided that we would set up our own Tropical Fish Aquarium. Our initial thoughts were, how hard could it be? A tank, some pebbles and a few fish, easy!

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Redesign of H.McLarnon & Son Website

Posted on Friday, April 16th, 2010 | No Comments » | all & work diary

I have successfully captured the redesign of the H.McLarnon and Son website. Their current website, which I created back in 2005 was one of the first websites that I developed from start to finish.

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Begin creating you own custom WordPress Theme – Part 1

Posted on Thursday, March 11th, 2010 | No Comments » | all & wordpress

If you are looking to use Wordpress as a fully blown Content Management System you will have to learn how to create your own custom theme.

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Delivered with a level of passion and soul … Carlos Santana

Posted on Thursday, March 11th, 2010 | No Comments » | all & music

Today I was having a look around at the various websites of the artists that I like, to see who I thought had the best. One of the best that I had come across was the website of the legendary Latin blues man Carlos Santana.

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I Started Out With Nothin’ and I Still Got Most of it Left!

Posted on Thursday, March 11th, 2010 | No Comments » | all & music

These past few days at work I have been listening a lot to a guy called Seasick Steve on Spotify. I really like this guys style, it so different and original from everyone at the moment.

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And you were a Crow … The Parlor Mob

Posted on Thursday, March 11th, 2010 | No Comments » | all & music

I have recently come across a superb New Jersey band called “The Parlor Mob”. Named after a 19th Century gang with the same name I initially heard a song by them on the radio titled “Hard Times” and was straight away drawn to them.

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Understanding WordPress Themes

Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010 | No Comments » | all & wordpress

If you are a newbie to Wordpress and are wanting to customise the design and layout of your website, you will firstly have to understand how Wordpress themes work.

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Using WordPress as a CMS

Posted on Monday, March 1st, 2010 | No Comments » | all & wordpress

When I first started using Wordpress as a Content Management system I often asked myself the question, why use a blog tool as a form of CMS?

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Want to play a little game??

Posted on Saturday, February 13th, 2010 | No Comments » | all & videos

For anyone who is a fan of the Saw series they will especially find this video hilarous. I have watched this video dozens of times and I still laugh every time.

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The Growing Empire of Johnny Cupcakes

Posted on Thursday, February 11th, 2010 | No Comments » | all & videos

Originally started as a joke back in 2001 by Johnny Earle, this clothing brand is now known by Millions over the world. The brands symbol is a skull and crossbones, with a cupcake replacing the skull.

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David Garibaldi Speed Painter

Posted on Thursday, February 11th, 2010 | No Comments » | all & art

These videos show some of the art that the fantastic David Garibaldi creates. His website link is at the bottom of the post.

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Sidewalk Chalk Guy

Posted on Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 | No Comments » | all & art

I stumbled across this guy called Julian Beever. He does some really cool art, have a look below for yourself.

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