2008 November

November 28, 2008

Missed out on a Golden Spider - damn!

We missed out on a golden spider last Thursday night - the winner in our category was Litriocht. Big congrats to them, the site looks great and its certainly something new. Commiserations to the other submissions in our category:
www.blueface.ie
www.emissionzero.ie
www.manna.ie
www.mattress.ie
www.solocheck.ie
www.styleplus.ieÂ
Some great sites.
We had a good time and met some great people, the Trocraire gang and Look West [...]

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November 20, 2008

Selling online - moving up the search results list

When getting a web site designed for you it is important to ask the developer about search engine optimzation (SEO) and how they will implement it in your site. You can have the most beautiful site, with great prices but no one will be buying from you unless you appear in search engine’s search result. Not [...]

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November 11, 2008

New Features for SwiftStore - Google Analytics & Create Your Own Pages

We have now released a couple of new features. The first is the ability to create your own pages, including images & formatting. The other feature is the ability to use google analytics to analyse the traffic on your site.
If you haven’t heard about Google Analytics, then you should really go to their site and check it out. [...]

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November 7, 2008

BizSpark, support for start-ups

We attended an event in Dublin last night organised by Microsoft. They were launching a new program called BizSpark to support start-up tech companies. Basically you get the Visual Studio tools, SQL, MSDN free for three years if you are approved. You also get good reductions from their business partners on the program - Dell, [...]

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November 3, 2008

Whats in the next release?

As part the ongoing improvement of service to our customers, we will be launching our editor in the next week or so. This will allow customers to create pages and content themselves, while maintaining the styling of the pages.Â
This is a new feature that will cost nothing extra, just one of the benefits of using SwiftStore to host your web stores. [...]

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November 1, 2008

SwiftStore shortlisted for a Golden Spider

Yes, we are very excited as we have been short-listed for an award in the best e-business web site category of the Golden Spiders awards. There are some excellent web sites entered into the awards, so it will be tough to win it, but it’s excellent to have been short-listed. It is a credit to our hard working development [...]

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