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Getting your business on Google Places

Getting your business on Google Places

Getting your business listed on Google is a very straightforward process these days. Many of us have websites for our business, which we can give a helping hand to  by also availing of a free listing on Google places. Google Places also  works pretty well if you dont have a website just yet. What is Google Places? When we search for a particular business or service, we normally enter the name of the service we are looking for along with...

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Professional Email

Professional Email

One of the major perks of having your own domain is that you can have your own personalised e-mail address exactly as you would like. Often, when you go to gmail, hotmail etc, the name you want is  just not available. A domain is the name that you have for your business on the web, in my case aurorawebdesign.ie . There are a wide variety of extensions that you can have at the end of your domain name. The most common of these you would know...

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So, you don’t need a website?

So, you don’t need a website?

I’ve on occasion met a business person who says that they really do not need a website. Once upon a time, I would have agreed with them. A website is quite like a pet. If you really don’t want a pet then you shouldn’t have one. What happens if you forget to feed it? Clean up after it? Take care of it? It will either die, or you will end up in court for animal negligence or cruelty. Now that is a very extreme analogy, but its not a...

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Win a Website!

Win a Website!

Donegal Local Development Company last year awarded the project for their directory website to Aurora Web Design, and to date more than 100 fledgling businesses have joined. Our goal was to help small businesses who might not otherwise have used a website to promote their business. The Donegal Business Directory as the website is known, gives each business a chance to add all of their contact information ( something most directories,...

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Domain Names

Domain Names

More than a few times over the past couple of weeks I’ve been looking at domain names. Also known as a web address or the www.youname.com. There is still a lot of mystery surrounding domain names that is only made worse by the huge amount of information available on the web. In this article I want to share with you some of the information that you will need to know before choosing a domain name. The first thing to know is something...

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