New Course starts in February!

‘E-commerce Web-design and Promotion (4-part Course)‘

Artist-makers Online are taking new bookings for our ever popular ‘E-commerce web-design and promotion‘ course. This 4-part course is ideal for individuals who are interested in building portfolio websites to include e-Commerce, social-media and are search-engine optimised.

What does the course cover?
1. Get your site online (domain-name and hosting)
2. Publish your content (using wordpress as a CMS)
3. Sell and promote your work (ecommerce and social media)
4. Optimise your site for search engines (SEO and Google Analytics)

When: Tuesday evening 6:30pm – 8:30pm
14th, 21st, 28th of February and 6th of March

Course Fee: €165

Find Out More!

Maureen Burke

Artist Maureen Burke availed of my One-to-one website deal recently. We spent a morning session together, she brought along a CD of her images and her biography and artist’s statement. Over 3 hours or so we registered her domain-name, set up hosting, installed a content management system, styled the site and uploaded her content. All before lunch!

Have a look at the results here: www.maureenburkeartist.com

Get in touch about your site now!

Social Media courses

I recently taught a short course in Social media in the Western Management Centre, in Galway. The course took place over a full day, with 2 3-hour sessions with a lunch break, and it’s full title was ‘Social Media – A business, sales & marketing tool‘.

‘The training course is ideally suited to individuals / businesses who want to learn how to use Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter etc. as part of their marketing strategy to gain a competitive edge, and that are interested in understanding how Social Media can have a positive impact on the revenue and awareness of their respective businesses.’

We’ve run the course twice now and it’s been very well received, the next course is available now for booking from Western Management Centre’s website here.

One-to-one website

Recently a lot of the work I’ve done on websites has been done working one-to-one with clients sitting in on the process. They get to work with me step by step on the site build, directing their project closely, they get a flat hourly rate and the knowledge that the site is being worked on at a pace they feel comfortable with. There’s no delays, the site goes up as we work on it, problems are seen and sorted-out in real time.

Some of the sites I’ve worked on like this recently:
www.eoinmchugh.com
www.angieshanahan.com

So I’ve been thinking this might appeal to more clients, I’m calling it ‘One-to-one website‘, a new web-design hand-holding service where you get exactly what you pay for. I can setup your domain-name, hosting account, design your site, upload your images and galleries and train you in your content management system so you update the site yourself. Additionally I can add the ability to sell your wares online (eCommerce), add Facebook and Twitter (Social Media integration) and help your site rank better in search engines (Search Engine Optimisation).

Get in touch to discuss what we can do for our site in a one-to-one session!

Course in Ranelagh Arts Centre

Book the course by clicking here.

New Courses for April, May and June

Check out the new courses in web-design, e-commerce and digital drawing Artist-makers Online will be running over the next few months, click the course for more info:

Introduction to Website Design and Building
E-commerce Web-design and Promotion
Digital Drawing as Film-making

New site for Adrienne Geoghegan

Adrienne Geoghegan runs the Illustration Bootcamp courses you’ve probably seen posters for around Dublin, she wanted her site to reflect her own quirky style and her love of painting, collage and assemblage. You can see more at: www.adriennegeoghegan.com

Site Update for Angela Fulcher

I recently updated the website of Visual Artist Angela Fulcher. She had an existing Indexhibit based site, and wanted a style tweek, improve typography, and integrate her content and galleries. I’ve used Indexhibit in the past, it’s a great tool for artists because of it’s straight-forward concentration on image galleries over other elements. Because it’s a CMS (content management system) you can upload new content, galleries, texts etc really easily. While the default style is still pretty nice, it’s possible to personalise the site with CSS, and a bit of PHP hacking.

If you’re looking for an Indexhibit site, I can set one up for you with an Artist-makers Online hosting plan, and can style it to your taste too. Just drop me a line.

Ecommerce web design course for March

There’s just a few places left on the March course in ‘Ecommerce webdesign and promotion’. It’s a 4 part course covering Hosting, Content Management, Ecommerce, Social Media, Search Engine Optimisation and Promotion.

The course takes place in Dublin City Centre on Wednesday evenings starting tomorrow night. Click here to find out more!

New Site for Neyde Lantyer

I’ve just finished off work on a new website  for Neyde Lantyer, a Brazilian visual artist working with photography and installations. Currently, she lives in Amsterdam-Holland, where she develops her own projects while takes active role in art organizations and cultural enterprises. As an artist living between two countries, her artwork carries the influence of both her background in Brazil and her life in Holland.

See Neyde’s new website at: www.neydelantyer.com