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Royal Cork Yacht Club

The Royal Cork Yacht Club was established in 1720 making it the oldest yacht club in the world. With over 1500 members, the facility is unparalleled in Ireland and continues to expand with major World, European & Irish Championships hosted at the club regularly.

JamJo was tasked with redesigning the website and bringing the identity into an online space.

Key Points:

  • Website redesign
  • Robust content management system
  • Features such as dynamic galleries and blogs

Arnold Industries

With headquarters in Canton, MA, USA, Arnold Industries is a specialist distributor of industrial fastenings. The company enjoys a proud history of continuous growth, financial strength and stability and counts the pioneering development of innovative inventory management as one of their many achievements. Arnold Industries now has operations in both Europe and Asia.

JamJo we’re tasked with refreshing the companies online presence and breath new life into the Arnold visual identity. The site acts as a company overview listing brands supplied and the industries supplied to.

Key Points:

  • Web design and build
  • Brand identity refresh

 

Studenty.me

Studenty.me is a multi-site blogging platform allowing students to stay connected to what’s happening both on and off campus.

JamJo we’re approached to create a website and identity, built on a unique multi-site platform, that would allow assigned bloggers throughout different areas in Ireland to blog and share latest news and happenings.

Key Points:

  • Unique multi-site platform in conjunction with WordPress
  • Logo and brand identity

Creating a Post/Blog Entry in WordPress

A blog is basically an online diary or journal that digitally records about anything you would want people to read. “Blog” is short for the term weblog and a term coined in humor in the late 1990′s. They come in different styles and formats, support and settings, all depending upon user preferences. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (art blog), photographs (photoblog), videos (video blogging), music (MP3 blog), and audio (podcasting).

Of the numerous topics displayed by blogs, perhaps the best known are political, personal, niche, travel, health, religious, and educational. All serve to be a collective of a specific topic written or produced by an individual or by a group of people. Read More…

Introduction to WordPress Blogging

“Blog” is an abbreviated version of “weblog,” which is a term used to describe web sites that maintain an ongoing chronicle of information. A blog features diary-type commentary and links to articles on other Web sites, usually presented as a list of entries in reverse chronological order. Blogs range from the personal to the political, and can focus on one narrow subject or a whole range of subjects.

Many blogs focus on a particular topic, such as web design, home staging, sports, or mobile technology. Some are more eclectic, presenting links to all types of other sites. And others are more like personal journals, presenting the author’s daily life and thoughts.

Generally speaking (although there are exceptions), blogs tend to have a few things in common: Read More…

Find your Feedburner ID for your Blog

Many of our new themes feature a Subscribe & Connect feature which asks for your Feedburner ID to enable e-mail subscription to your blog. Here is how to find the Feedburner ID:

  1. Log in to your Feedburner account
  2. Click on Publicize in the main menu
  3. Click on Email Subscriptions and activate it if not already active
  4. Look at the embed code and find your ID after the ?uri=

See the screenshot below to see that the ID in this case is MagnusJepson Read More…

Creative and Digital Marketing

Creative and Digital Marketing is a program at University College Cork designed for unemployed graduate-quality participants who are new to the business use of social media and wish to become rapidly employable through adding to their existing portfolio of competences a uniquely-integrated mix of creative, design and digital marketing skills of a high calibre.

JamJo were approached by the head of the program to design and build a unique website and identity that would allow for program participants to log into, update and share their knowledge across the site.

Key Points:

  • Site design, brand and build
  • Online community for course participants