Author Archives Niall Flaherty

Happy New Year!

04/01/2011
by Niall Flaherty
in Short Courses, Workshops

If your New Year’s resolution is to get to grips with your website, Artist-makers Online are currently taking bookings for our new ‘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. Pay securely now via Paypal to reserve your place. // Find Out More!

I’m also running 3 different workshops which will be useful additions to the 4-part course, have a look at what I’m offering and maybe one of these would suit you?

Artist-makers Online are currently taking bookings for our new ‘Introduction to Google Analytics‘ workshop. This 3-hour course is ideal for individuals who are interested in learning how to use Google Analytics to find out more about your web traffic. Track your visitor’s interaction with your site and find out where sale conversions are failing. Create Profiles, Goals, Funnels and Filters. Get more out of your site stats. // Find Out More!

WordPress is a terrific tool for building websites, with hundreds of free plugins and themes to choose from to extend your site in anyway imaginable. But to have a truly unique design you must ‘Customise your WordPress theme‘. It may be that your logo positioning is off, or that your colour scheme or typography are dated, but knowing how to make these changes yourself allows you to get the most out of the best website building tool around and literally turns WordPress into the most versatile webdesign tool available. // Find Out More!

‘Preparing media for the web‘ can be confusing and complicated. This workshop will show you how to prepare your images, audio and video for presentation online. This workshop would be suitable for anyone unsure as to how to get their images and other media into a format which can be used on their website. The workshop would also be useful for anyone who needs to prepare digital media for an application either to be emailed or saved to cd. // Find Out More!

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New site for Award-winning Organic Farm

17/12/2010
by Niall Flaherty
in e-Commerce, Hosting, New Sites

I just completed a site I’m very proud of for Beechlawn Organic Farm. As well as being a rural family-business, Beechlawn Farm supports the local and seasonal food production and is the kind of business we should all be supporting at this time!

The site highlights their Award-winning Fruit and Veg Box Scheme which has recently won the Bord Bia’s ‘National Organic Awards’, Organic Box Scheme of the Year 2010. The site includes an easy to use e-Commerce system for ordering your Box, which if you’re in their Free Delivery Area is dropped straight to your door at no extra cost!

www.beechlawnfarm.org

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New Website for Una Gildea

28/08/2010
by Niall Flaherty
in Designer Makers, Hosting, New Sites

Una is an artist and illustrator and uses animation, collage, painting and drawing in her work. She studied painting, drawing and print making at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam and The School of Visual Arts, New York and animation at the University of the West of England, Bristol.

‘I love the madness of collage. A medium, in the manner I use it, that allows me to juxtapose recognizable found images and transformed cutouts in pictorial narratives that invite the viewer to apply their own stories. Narratives at once oddly recognizable, yet uncomfortably odd; narratives often downright obscene, whilst pushing the chuckle-button; narratives that always aim to open the chute direct to the subconscious, that provoke an intuitive, not literal, sense, of what’s going on. That is my own goal in their making and what I hope the viewer will respond to in the viewing.’

See her new site here.

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Artistmakers website for Orla Whelan

17/07/2010
by Niall Flaherty
in Hosting, New Sites, Visual Artists
Orla Whelan Artist's Portfolio

Orla Whelan Artist’s Portfolio

Orla Whelan is a contemporary Irish artist. Her work deals primarily with the exploration and representation of subjectivity. Informed by personal experience, literature and art history, her work attempts to tease out the desire and compulsion to investigate the self, and its condition. Taking shared human experience as a departure point, she intuitively investigates the fields of memory, perception and representation.

See her new site here.

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Hopeful Structures

01/07/2010
by Niall Flaherty
in Arts Project, Hosting, New Sites, Visual Artists

In 2009, Dublin City Council Arts office launched a new pilot initiative in the Red Stables Artists Studios (with the kind assistance of The Arts Council), to commission an emerging curator to plan and devise an outdoor exhibition of temporary artworks for Saint Anne’s Park.

For this year’s project invited curator, Sally Timmons has selected two artists to consider the notion of a folly (defined as an ornamental structure or building, whose creation reflects a whimsical inclination on the part of the builder). With this in mind, the artists Mark Clare and Fionnuala Hanahoe have developed artworks that will provide a physical and visual interference within the environs of the park, holding intrigue as visually stimulating yet seemingly futile functional structures.

The last two days of the project are this weekend, Saturday and Sunday from 12pm until 5pm. A closing reception for the project, Hopeful Structures will take place at The Red Stables Artists Studios in Saint Annes Park, Dublin from 4 – 6 pm this coming Saturday 3rd July

www.hopefulstructures.org

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  • The Printmakers Gallery

    I recently designed a website for The Printmakers Gallery, on Drury St, Dublin. It’s a responsive website, built on WordPress. The menu slides off to the left and the content resizes when it detects a smaller screen, like on a tablet or smart phone. Check out the site here: The Printmakers Gallery.
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    Oranmore Castle website revamped!

    Oranmore Castle, in Oranmore, Co. Galway has benefited from a total redesign, to bring it up to date and in-line with the plans of its owners, artist Leonie King and musician, Alec Finn. Alec and Leonie are planning to make the Castle’s Great Hall available for events, to make it’s lodge (‘The Monkey House’) available […]
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    Refreshed website for Heather Finn Knitwear

    I just completed a website redesign for Heather Finn Knitwear with a whole new shop / e-cart system and a whole new style. The refresh presents her new Autumn / Winter 2013 collection of beautiful cashmere and lambswool scarves, cardigans and accessories. Have a look at her site here!
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