www.appledrop.ie
Remember those old Apple Drop sweets? Well now they are back in the form of a Dublin based Corporate Video and Media Company. The Apple Drop site is a fully responsive WordPress development, working on everything from a TV to a small smartphone. Blogging, social promotions and SEO are ongoing and this site should be hitting top spots in the coming days and weeks.
Apple Drop Media
www.pss.ie
PSS.ie was a anew logo and WordPress theme for this long established Irish EPOS Supplier. Positive System Solutions have a huge range of services, software and hardware provider, with a main focus on EPOS and Microsoft RMS. As with all my recent sites this is another Responsive WordPress theme with full SEO and all bells and whistles. SEO is going well and the new site structure will help
EPOS Ireland
www.wordpressseo.ie
A new site for myself and one which I already dominate a lot of search real estate for the term WordPress SEO Ireland. Long story short this is a simple little one page site, more to come here, just it might be 12 months before I get around to it, so no sense in leaving this good domain bare. Anyway the domain is self explanatory it is a site for Search Engine optimisation for WordPress, also rockets, spacemen and some HTML5.
WordPress SEO
www.puravida.ie
A site I am helping out with on the SEO for Dublin based Graphic Designer Eoin Kearney. The site is a new and clean design with a brand new logo and photography. Anyway I am here to help with the SEO and already the site is indexed and climbing. That said with a dictionary term for a brand name it may be a few weeks before we see it hit #1, promotion is ongoing.
Pura Vida
www.pygrestaurantdublin.ie
A new WordPress site for Dublin Restaurant PYG. Food and decor are stunning and I recreated a little bit of the PYG style within the site. Online reservations and WordPress managed menus make this a real easy to update site. The PYG Cafe also features as a single page with custom menus and social links. SEO is beginning and there is already a nice social media following. SEO is going well and looking good for #1.
Dublin Restaurant
www.rainbowrun.ie
The Rainbow Run is a 5K Fun Run in aid of charity and the first of it’s kind in Ireland. This site is a WordPress CMS linked to EventBrite for online ticket purchase and event management. The site is going really well with 15,000 unique visits in less than 10 days. All the SEO work is now done and the site is #1 for all the major rainbow run search terms. This site is already succeeding and shows no signs of stopping.
Rainbow Run
www.html5developer.ie
A new personal site show casing some pure HTML5 development. The site should become a nice little SEO niche and I am hoping I will be able to add a new blog to it in the coming weeks to branch out and offer an Irish HTML resource. Checkout the site no WordPress here but some nice little animations, this one is best viewed using Chrome, but should work on all browsers.
HTML5 Developer
www.criticaldata.ie
CDS or Critical Data Service are a Dublin based Data Recovery company with a difference. Specialising in RAID Array Recovery and Data Recovery these guys are serious pros. A new google feature on site allows you tour there 100 Cleanroom and office using street view, check it out it’s pretty cool. SEO for this project is going really well and CDS are now #1 for Data Recovery Dublin.
Data Recovery Dublin
www.niallstrickland.com
Niall Strickland is a Dublin based Business Mentor and Management Expert. Niall has decades of experience and now has a brand new AI driven business analysis software. This software along with Niall’s videos and Articles give everything from practical advice to business management strategies. The site is WordPress driven and linked to mailinglist and premium subscription based content.
Niall Strickland
www.signforfun.ie
Sign for Fun is an Irish charity for deaf culture and Irish Sign Language. The site is bright and colourful and aimed mainly at parents and children. Sign for Fun aim to spread deaf culture, news and information, while promoting Irish Sign Language at home and abroad. There are videos and games as well as a blog that is becoming very active, with articles and comments after only a few days.
Irish Sign Language
www.toscana.ie
Tasty, Tasty, Tasty! That’s what I think of this brand new site for Dublin based Italian Restaurant & pizzeria Toscana Dún Laoghaire. One of Dublin’s most famous Italian Restaurants has just had an online facelift and a brand new responsive WordPress site and SEO campaign. Heaps more to come on this one as it rockets up the listings on Google for 2013, check it out and take it from me the food is amazing!
Italian Restaurant Dublin
www.philipmurphy.ie
Phil is a good mate of mine and an ex colleague from my days at Agency.com & Cawley Nea\TBWA. Phil is now Client side for Permanent TSB making his mark as their online manager and Digital Strategist. I just recently launched his portfolio a week or so back and this site is an AJAX/PHP driven vcard style one page site. Check out Phil’s portfolio and contact details on his brand spanking new site.
Philip Murphy
www.obexpo.ie
O’Brien Expo Services or OB Expo are a Dublin based supplier of all things Expo related. From design and concept to build and management OB Expo service some of the biggest names and venues in Dublin. The site is a WordPress driven and mainly focused on OB Expo’s portfolio. The site is perfomring really well and is at a page rank of 4 already, watch this space for more info…
Exhibition Design Dublin
www.westerndental.ie
Western Dental operate two dental clinics based in Mayo & Sligo. The site was a redevelopment from an old static HTML one pager to WordPress. The site is quite snazzy and it looks as close to a toothpaste brand as I am willing to go. But joking aside it is a really functional dental specific layout and functions. SEO for this one will be ongoing as the dental market is highly competitive.
Sligo Dentist
www.hiremyskill.ie
WordPress with a difference here and for me the hiremyskills.ie is a site that shows just that. Hireland are an ethical recruitment company based here in Dublin. Hire My Skill is a combo between them and one of Ireland’s leading newspapers the Irish Times. I designed and built the site based on the pre-existing brand, it’s a tough one to explain so just click to see more and add your skill and listen out for the national radio ads.
Hire My Skill
www.phil-murphy.com
Phil Murphy is an ex colleague from my Ad Agency days here in Dublin. Phil like many account directors is moving his focus primarily to digital. The site acts as a showcase for his recent campaigns, planning and strategy. The site is up and running a few days and there is another smaller v-card style site coming soon. SEO will be done by Phil himself but the initial index is going well, check back for more.
Phil Murphy
www.penryphotography.ie
A New WordPress theme for Meath based Wedding Photographers Penry Photography. They had an existing WordPress site and wanted a more stylish look and feel with a focus on SEO and conversion. The site was redesigned with a new full screen gallery home page and a modular design that works on any device.
Meath Wedding Photography
www.sligomvc.com
A move from Drupal to WordPress for the Sligo Golf Club Male Voice Choir. The site was previously difficult to update and had a very drab design. The Sligo MVC site is now updated and already jumping up the ranks for male voice choir and other related terms as well as being simple to update and a lot more kind on the eye.
Sligo Male Voice Choir
www.corallei.com
A WordPress eCommerce site launched for Lorna Burton an Irish Designer of Ethical Vegan Leather bags. The site is a stylish fullscreen mix of contemporary portfolio and simple shopping using PayPal. The site was a redesign for the Autumn/Winter collection, check out the site to see the full range.
CoraLlei by Lorna Burton
www.leavingcertmindmaps.ie
Leaving Cert Mind Maps is the brain child of Tammy Strickland and is a continuation of her very successful Junior Cert MindMaps. The site is WordPress driven, giving information on every aspect of the Leaving Cert syllabus. PDF sales are integrated via PayPal and subscriptions and formus are being developed in the coming months.
Leaving Cert Mind Maps
www.brendangalvin.ie
A new WordPress site for Dublin based Videographer Brendan Galvin. The site was a simple but cost effective WordPress solution to get Brendan online for the first time and help direct business via SEO. The site is being optimised for Wedding Video, Corporate Video and also for Brendan’s own name. Check out the site as it rises up the ranks on Google.
Brendan Galvin Films
www.feargalharrington.com
A tumblr style WordPress theme for this Irish Wedding and Funeral singer. The site is a blog driven WordPress site, with a focus on media. Custom post types allow Feargal Harrington showcase his news, music and videos in his brand new WordPress site. Check out Fergal Harrington and his recent work at the Rose of Tralee.
Feargal Harrington – Wedding Singer
www.corkautism.ie
A new fresh WordPress website for this great charity based in Cork. The Cork Association for Autism now have a brand new .ie domain and bright SEO friendly WordPress site, connected to flickr and now taking PayPal Donations. A fresh new PR launch and the new site will help the CAA raise the vital funds they need, check out the new site.
Cork Autism Services
www.pictorium.ie
A gallery driven WordPress theme for this Dublin Printing and Photo Restoration specialists the Pictorium. This was a brand new site for this business and it showcases a large amount of there printing, framing and restoration services. The site comes with some handy shortcodes to allow for easy use of galleries and portfolios, check out the new site.
Dublin Photo Printing
www.cullenandbohan.ie
Converting a paper catalogue to a website is a great way to save money and make changes without a need to re-print. Cullen and Bohan have a huge collection of packaging supplies and the challenge here was to order the stock in a simple and SEO friendly layout. Check out the new WordPress site, with it’s stylish navigation and fresh new logo & design.
Cullen and Bohan
www.alysonmakeup.ie
A new WordPress theme for a Dublin based makeup artist Alyson Smyth, the site was a revamp of an old theme which was drab and in need of SEO. The new site is loaded with galleries, testimonials and easy to update services pages, linked to PayPal. The site has some great example’s of Alyson’s work with some excellent photos.
Wedding Makeup Dublin
www.getaculifenow.com
An ecommerce and brochure WordPress site just launched for a health product called Aculife. Aculife is a form of Chinese medicine and coins the term Magnetic Wave Therapy. Aculife is a Magnetic Wave Therapy treatment that offers acupuncture effects without needles. Check out this new WordPress site to find out more.
Aculife
www.eananpatterson.com
A brand spanking new WordPress site for Eanan Patterson, really nice guy and a real pro. The site has a simple, stylish look and feel, modern fonts and big design with a focus on HD photography. The old site was flash-based, all the good bits were moved to WordPress and the sites hosting was updated. Check out this new stylish WordPress site.
Eanan Patterson
www.forza.ie
A new WordPress site and a port from Drupal. The old site had some pretty strange URL structure and was in need of SEO site-wide. Forza have a wide range of Marketing Services, but the main SEO focus will be around Direct Marketing, for Cork and Ireland as a whole. The site has been moving up the ranks in Google since it’s update.
Direct Marketing Ireland
www.dcmedia.ie
DC Media a Dublin-based Wedding Video company. This was a port form a static html site to WordPress, with an old blog being integrated into the site. The brief was to update the site’s look and feel, make it more search friendly and to allow the client to update. All done in one change and you guessed it – that was a move to WordPress.
DC Media
www.take3trio.com
Take3Trio are a Stylish Dublin based trio. We developed a brand new WordPress website for the guys, integrating YouTube and allowing for Social Sharing, blogging and a really easy to update website. The Image gallery is linked to Flickr so the guys have a single easy way to update images and save on the hosting bills. Check out the new site and find out more.
Take3Trio
www.defernotrust.org
The Deferno Trust is a Sligo based Charity setup to raise awareness and offer support to suffers of Tysabri related Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy ( PML ). The site was a redevelopment of an existing WordPress website, including redesign and addition of social sharing widgets and facebook social integration.
Deferno Trust
www.yogareiki.ie
Yoga, Reiki Healing & Positive Living are all the themes within Danielle Donnelly’s new WordPress site. This fresh WordPress theme lets Danielle showcase the range of her services, with a custom gallery and services section, this is one we are really proud of here at WordPress Developer Ireland, check out Danielle’s relaxing site.
Yoga & Reiki by Danielle
www.cmccarpentry.ie
CMC Carpentry are a Wicklow based Carpentry and Construction firm, owned by Colm Murphy. The site has a fresh WordPress theme with a specialised layout, which will resize to fit any device. The site’s image gallery is easily updated via flickr and the theme has a variety of easy to use functions, making it very easy to update.
CMC Carpentry
www.autocue.ie
Red Dog Productions are an Irish based supplier of Autocue and Teleprompter Services. The brief was to create a stylish site that was very SEO friendly. The goal was simple, get to #1 for Autocue Ireland on Google, sounds easy doesn’t it?
Diarmuid and the guys in Red Dog had an old html coming soon page and the time had come for a full site and more importantly a new look and feel. The Red Dog ‘Dog’ itself is was redeveloped and given a nice new 3D pixar style look with bucket loads of attitude. The site design was to keep with the Red that the brand was well know for. The breath and quality of clients, equipment and services were at the forefront to help lift the business’s USPs and overall look and feel.
Autocue.ie was the full WordPress package with an short and sweet SEO campaign, which took around 10-12 days from development to #1 on Google. The site and it’s sister site teleprompter.ie both hit #1 after 10 days and were on page one 24 hours after launch. Checkout this stylish WordPress site and the new Red Dog ‘Mutt’.
Autocue Ireland
www.letstrain.ie
Great clients get great work. I stand by this and when a client trusts me and allows me the freedom to develop, I always deliver way beyond initial expectations. Rob Smyth is a Personal Trainer based in Sandyford Dublin. Rob has travelled the world and is returning home to continue his career as a personal trainer in Dublin.
Rob had an existing WordPress.com site, so it made sense to go with the platform, I would have anyway, but it always helps when the client knows the CMS and has some excellent Fitness Advice already in there blog. The site features Dublin Fashion Photographer Alex Hutchinsons work, also a client of mine so check out his site.
Rob got the full package, which included a redesign of his WordPress theme and a refocus of message and CTA within his site. Rob’s initial SEO focus will be around Google places and natural listings for the term Sandyford Personal Trainer. Early days and the indexing is going well. I have been trying to promote all my new clients with Irish Backlinks form backlinks.ie. More to come as this site soars up the Google ranks, I wont be happy till I see Rob #1 for Sandyford Personal Trainer.
Personal Trainer Sandyford
www.educationchoice.ie
Education Choice was established by David Kelly in late 2006 and are based on Mount Street in Dublin. Education Choice is focused on providing Skills Based Training that will help Learners in the workplace. Security Training is the main focus of Education Choice’s service offering, courses are based in Dublin, Galway, Cork & Limerick.
The site was originally a HTML & PHP bespoke CMS, which was very difficult for the client to update. I ported the site to WordPress and the client is adding blog posts and editing the content like pros. The WordPress theme also has a simple PayPal checkout system with a custom Short Code to allow Education Choice edit prices and add new courses. Check out the site, more SEO work to come.
Education Choice – Dublin Security Training
www.backlinks.ie
Back Links Ireland is a site I have setup sans client and is a small Irish directory/SEO project I will be working on for the next few months. The site is designed using WordPress and DirectoryPress. The thumbnails API is from Shrink the Web, so this all amount to a full automated directory submission portal.
My aim with backlinks.ie is create a useful Irish links resource, that is driven by quality sites, expert taxonomy and of course local businesses. Long term I hope to be able to use this service to allow Irish businesses get free and inexpensive local relevant back links. The site is currently scraping the DMOZ for Irish business entries so I have a lot of work to do, just at around 1,000 entries after 48 hours, estimate I will stop at around 20K and refine the listings, SEO work is ongoing but I want to see how this one performs organically with out any manipulation, pure white hat with an old school directory mechanic, it should be interesting if anything.
Back Links Ireland
www.dunlaoghairedental.ie
Dun Laoghaire Dentist – Dun Laoghaire Dental, are a local Family Dental Clinic located in Dun Laoghaire here in Ireland. The site DLD site is WordPress driven and is in the early days of SEO work and currently creeping onto page one now for Dentistry related terms.
Currently sitting on the top spot of page 2, I won’t be happy until this site is the #1 search for google.ie, currently #1 on bing.com for this search, so one down one to go 
Lots more to come as I optimise this local business for google.ie, watch this space.
Dun Laoghaire Dentist
www.clarekeogh.ie
Clare Keogh is an Irish Press Photographer based in Cork. Clare’s site is WordPress driven and focuses heavily on a minimal look and feel, allowing the images to come to the forefront. The site has some excellent image display capabilities and is backed by WordPress short codes to make updating a simple task.
The site is fully optimised and although the home page is sans text, the site is already seeing some great early results, ranking #1 for Clare Keogh and climbing sharply for Press Photographer Ireland and Press Photographer.
Press Photographer Ireland
www.navigatebydesign.com
A new client of mine Navigate by Design, a Dublin based Freelance Graphic Designer, Laura Mcauley, has just launched a brand new WordPress site, which you can check out at www.navigatebydesign.com. The project involved a move away from their current host (I won’t name names), to the fine people at Spiral Hosting.
Navigate by Design
www.iseultsheehy.com
Iseult Sheehy is a Dublin based Stylist, one of my first clients from back in my college freelance days the old site was developed in 2007 using Flash. I will be developing a brand new WordPress driven portfolio for Iseult in the coming weeks, watch this space. As with all of my projects there will be a focused SEO goal to optimise for the term Dublin Stylist and other relevant business terms.
Dublin Stylist Iseult Sheehy
www.alexhutchinsonphotography.com
Artists portfolio’s are some of my favourite projects to work on. The combination of commercial reach and artistic vision can sometimes be at loggerheads, Alex Hutchinson’s site was the perfect build with a client who was eager to get the project live asap. The site is a wordpress driven photo gallery with linkage to Alex’s twitter and Flickr Social Media Profiles. Check out this talented Dublin Photographer’s Portoflio.
Alex Hutchinson Dublin Freelance Photographer
www.drohanlettings.ie
Drohan Lettings are a long established letting agent based in Dundrum. The project was a complete redesign and restructure of their existing site. The site is developed using WordPress and is synced to the Drohan Lettings daft.ie profile, allowing them easily update the site’s property listings. I was responsible for web design, site development and search optimisation on this project. A custom Daft WordPress plugin was also created specifically for Drohan Lettings, consuming from the Daft API and integrated with WordPress pagination.
Drohan Lettings site is currently ranked #1 on Google for the term Drohan Lettings and also #3 on page 1 for the terms Letting Dundrum and Dundrum Letting Agent.
Drohan Dundrum Lettings
www.woodprint.ie
Woodprint are a Dublin Printing Company, based in Innovation House in the Sandyford Industrial Estate. From design to installation Woodprint specialise in Large Format Printing, Bespoke POS Solutions and Installations. The Woodprint site is a full WordPress CMS, with some nice custom image slider plugins that are very easy for the client to update. The site ranks well for the brand name and other related Dublin based printing terms.
Woodprint Large Scale Printing Dublin
www.snoozecreative.com
Snooze Creative are a Dublin based animation and graphic design studio that specialise in animated shorts. I gave the guys a hand with the site, linking their vimeo showcase and adding some nice custom flash. Check out the footer of the site, see if you can spot the prawn, one of my favorite projects to date.
Snooze Creative
www.oxybubbles.com
Oxybubbles is a Northern Irish based Oxygen Bar & Equipment Rental business, servicing Ireland & the UK, the brief was simple. Under a small budget this single page jQuery driven php site was a rapid build and was completed in under 2 days, from concept to final execution. The site launched in May 2011 and is indexing well for the terms Oxygen Bar Northern Ireland and Oxygen Bar Ireland. Ongoing PPC and Organic SEO will continue over the coming months.
Oxybubbles Oxygen Bars
www.dahoulihan.ie
The D.A. Houlihan Firm was founded in 1899 and has been in practice ever since from its premises at John’s Place, Birr, Co. Offaly. The D.A. Houlihan site is another of my WordPress projects and the brochure site is fully client editable. The site launched in June 2011 and is currently being optimised for the following search terms; D.A. Houlihan, Offaly Legal Services & Offaly Solicitors.
Offaly Solicitors D.A. Houlihan
www.businessanalyst.ie
The Certificate in Business Analysis and Consultancy is a Business Analysts course, developed in conjunction with the The National College of Ireland. I was responsible for a redesign and redevelopment of the content structure within this site. The site was a complete rebuild and with Search Engine Rankings paramount to the campaign I choose WordPress as my CMS of choice.
The site currently ranks #1 Organically for the term Business Analyst in Ireland and also ranks #1 globally for the term Business Analyst Ireland. The new site is completely client manageable via WordPress and has some nice features for sign-up and a live jobs feed from a leading recruitment website.
Business Analysts Association of Ireland
www.enterpriseevolution.ie
Enterprise Evolution is a new and innovative project, The Enterprise Evolution Graduate Programme is a partnership between Innovo Training and Development, the Synergy Centre and the Institute of Technology in Tallaght (ITT). I was responsible for online promotion for this campaign, the Programmes social media is all administrable via WordPress, allowing a single point of contact for updating the website, twitter and facebook.
The Programme was a huge success and its second round is currently being promoted. The site ranks #1 globally for the term Enterprise Evolution, against some stiff competition from a popular TV series of a similar name.
Enterprise Evolution Graduate Programme
www.everythingit.ie
Everything IT are an Irish IT Services company, based in Sandyford, Dublin. Everything IT are exactly as their name suggests a one stop shop for anything from Individual PC sales to Corporate Network Management. The guys are some of the best in the business, with services to suit any size organisation. With a client list ranging from schools all the way through to large Multinational Companies and Government agencies, the Everything IT team can provide.
I created the Everything IT brand and also supplied, web design, print and vehicle design. The site is fully optimised and client manageable via WordPress. I am working on an ongoing basis with Everything IT to promote their IT services within Ireland and also to a larger corporate global market. For anyone looking for Professional IT Service providers anywhere in Ireland checkout Everything IT.
Dublin IT Services
www.carnabybrown.com
Carnaby Brown was the last of my big projects within Rothco, launching a Drinks brand in the UK & Ireland. The development was full WordPress, with heavy influence on Social Media. My role was within the web development team in Rothco, responsible for front end coding, Flash & WordPress development and the maintenance of the blog.
Carnaby Brown
