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Is a Website worth it ?

bobmurphy@rainrain.com — Sat, 24 May 2008 01:00:00 +0100

While large multinational companies may not concern themselves a lot with the relatively small cost of a website; SME’s and sole traders usually need to be more sure of a return.

A marketing executive at Pepsi apparently remarked once that half of the money spent on advertising at Pepsi was wasted ... "the only problem was they could never work out which half !"

And that is exactly the problem. Unless you run an online shop or own a B&B that takes online [...]

How much do websites cost ?

bobmurphy@rainrain.com — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:00:00 +0100

Getting a website built ? Naturally you would want some idea of the costs involved, but it can be hard to get a ballpark figure.

How much does a house cost ? The analogy of a house is often used as an illustration. If you were building a house, you wouldn't ask a builder how much a house costs because he couldn't tell you without a lot more information.

You might be able to get per square metre price, but the builder would need fu [...]

A static or dynamic website ?

bobmurphy@rainrain.com — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:00:00 +0100

Being able to change the website contents yourself can be a major advantage depending on the business you are in. This article examines Content Management Systems .

Take for example the owner of a small restaurant. He wants a website and would also like to be able to change the lunch and dinner menu’s on his website fairly regularly. He has three options:

A) Learn how to change the content himself (learn HTML )B) Have a designer make changes ea [...]

Domain names demystified.

bobmurphy@rainrain.com — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:00:00 +0100

Pizza.com recently sold for $2.6m; but I just want a domain for my business. Should I get a dot com or a dot ie or both. What are domains all about.

Basically a Domain Name is a name which points to a website. So for instance www.mywebsite.com or www.yourwebpage.ie etc. The www part of the website is standard but sometimes there may be 'Subdomains' e.g. shop.yourwebsite.com or forum.mywebsite.ie. The holder of the registered domain mywebsite.com would have sole ri [...]