Web Design For Small Business
Just like you, Noostyle Web Design is a fellow small business. That's makes us perfectly placed to understand your online needs. After all, we have to market our own business in just the same ways that we will market yours.
As we have said in various other articles, 70% of potential customers go online when looking for a local business. This figure is up 9% since 2009 and will continue to grow. Not only will we build you a beautiful and feature rich website, we'll also make sure that those potential customers can find your website. Having a website without good search engine and social network marketing is pretty similar to having a DVD player, but no television. You need both.
Searching Google with personalised search results disabled.
Did you now that google returns personalised search engine results? This basically means that if you type 'Web Design Northern Ireland', you'll see different results than me because google knows I type this often and click the same link (Noostyle) often. Google then helps me by ranking my 'favourite' sites higher in the search engines as a measure of convenience.
Friends School Lisburn Video - A lesson in marketing.
Friends and clients often ask us for suggestions on how to promote their websites, companies or orgaisations in a cost effective manner. The absense of a huge marketing budget was no barrier to the students and staff at Friends School Lisburn who subsituted cash for an altogether more valuable asset: imagination.
This is one of the best examples of viral marketing we have ever seen. Have a look and embrace their enthusiasm and creativity. Sometimes the masters must learn from the students. Literally.
Pretty impressive, huh? Recently, we launched a cost effective promotional video also - although we readily admit that the Friends School LipDub video is in a league of it's own. Well done to all involved.
Nursing Home Belfast
We were delighted to have been chosen by Orchard House Nursing Home Belfast to design their website.
We went along to meet them at their fabulous Cherryvalley location and were absolutely stunned at the level of care and attention they paid to their residents. We are giving Orchard House a special mention because it is the type of place that resotres your faith in humanity.
Have a read about Orchard House Nursing Home Belfast in their own words. We challenge you not to be impressed. You can read more about the web design by visiting the Orchard House : Nursing Home Belfast page in our portfolio.
Have a nice day folks and remember that there are really nice people out there. Be positive :-)
If you would like a website like this, feel free to get in touch and we'll do our best to help.
What is Joomla?
Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS). It enables you (yes, even beginners) to easily manage powerful yet affordable web sites, Intranets and web applications. Being so easy to use and extend has made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Around 30 million websites are built with Joomla.
The Joomla CMS is useful for building and updating small business websites or larger corporate websites - when Wordpress just isn't powerful enough. It is the true, industry standard content management system.
Solution to K2 Items Disappearing
I have been asked by three different web designers this week how to fix the
foreach() on line 80 error
which makes K2 items disappear from the Joomla Content Management System. Here's how to fix it by Noostyle Web Design Belfast.
The Problem
Line 80 is a foreach() loop trying to pull data from your database. You'll need to have something like PhpMyAdmin installed and you'll need permission to run SQL queries against your database. If you are worried or unsure about this, contact your web designer or web host.
Go into PhpMyAdmin, click 'databases', choose your database then click on jos_k2_items from the list. It should show the following error:
#145 - Table './jos_k2_items' is marked as crashed and should be repaired
The Solution:
In phpMyAdmin:
1. Select the database in use
2. Click to browse the table "jos_k2_items"
3. Click on "SQL" tab
4. Type "REPAIR TABLE jos_k2_items" in the query box and click on 'Go'.
The query box should now tell you that the action has exectued successfully.
NOTE: the default prefix for Joomla database tables is "jos_". If you altered this during installation, then you'll need to change the command 'REPAIR TABLE (name of the table with your K2 articles)'
To find out more visit our Web Design Belfast page.
Good luck.
Promote Your Website To A Belfast Audience
In this edition of the blog, we will look at a few simple methods to promote your website or web design to a local, Belfast audience.
1. Post free ads on Belfast Gumtree
You can put your advert into relevant categories and add pictures and/or videos of your products and services. For example, we would write an advert titled 'Web Design Belfast'. Choose a title to suit your product or website.
The Importance of Quality Backinks
If you have been doing your research on how to promote your website in the search engines, you've probably encountered the term 'backlinks'. Several of our clients have been asking us exactly what backlinks are and why they are important. This short guide should make things a bit clearer.
Noostyle Featured in Belfast Telegraph
The Belfast Telegraph caught up with 'the boss', Peter Robinson at the weekend, to find out what makes him tick. Here's the transcript:
Peter Robinson is the creative director of Noostyle Web Design in Belfast. He works with voluntary sector, corporate and public sector bodies providing them with a web solution for their business and audiences' needs. Peter lives in north Belfast and has two sons, aged 11 and 5
How To Get A Web Design Work Placement
Noostyle is a Belfast city centre based, web design company. As such, we receive LOTS of requests from students for work placements. Not only can we not accommodate all of these requests but very often, we don't even have time to look at them in depth or reply to them all.
Here are some tips to get you noticed and score that all-important work placement…..
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