What we have done

• Designed tons of gambling related sites for affiliates big and small.
• Launched our own e-commerce site (one of the goals I always had).
• Custom designed some themes for the WordPress platform for sale on a well known marketplace.
• Created our own Eire Studio framework for WordPress.
• Got yet another mention in a book about design.
• Worked on one Ireland’s largest building provider’s website.

What we are working on

• More custom WordPress themes.
• No Deposit Bingo, Ireland’s newest bingo portal.
• Site redesign for this site, yeah I know it’s been ages and the design is looking old and dated!
• A personal project that will be launching in the mid year.
• Tutorials!!

Hope the year has been good to you all.

Happy Christmas!

EDIT: Just noticed the website is responsive too, extra brownie points guys.

Jigoshop looks really modern and the default theme is absolutely gorgeous, I will be playing with this plugin very soon and report back with my findings.

Well done to the team, hope it’s a huge success for you!

First off, open up your functions.php file and add the following code.

add_action('add_meta_boxes', 'eirestudio_create_meta_box');
function eirestudio_create_meta_box()
{
   add_meta_box('eirestudio_meta_wrapper', 'My Super Meta Box', 'eirestudio_display_meta_box', 'post', 'side' ,'default', '');
}

function eirestudio_display_meta_box()
{
   echo 'Eire Studio welcomes you!';
}

Heres how it works

The add_action function attaches a custom function (which we have to create) to an action; the action we are using in this tutorial is the add_meta_boxes action. The add_action function accepts 4 parameters:

• tag (required) - The name of the action you wish to hook onto. A list of available actions are here.
• function_to_add (required) - This is name of your function you want to be used.
• priority - This determines when your function is called in relation to other functions. The default setting is 10.
• accepted_args - How many arguments your function takes.

The eirestudio_create_meta_box function is a function we will use to create the meta box by using the add_meta_box action. The add_meta_box action defines the meta box such as the heading, where it will be shown on the page etc. The add_meta_box action accepts 7 parameters:

• id (required) = The CSS id that your meta box will be wrapped in.
• title (required) = The heading of your meta box.
• callback (required) = The function name to be called to actually show the meta box.
• page (required) = What screen will this meta box be shown on. Post, page, custom post type or link.
• context = Which part of the screen will the meta box be shown.
  • normal
  • advanced
  • side
• priority = The priority in which your meta box should be shown. high, core, default or low.
• callback_args = Arguments to pass into your callback function.

Then we simply create the eirestudio_display_meta_box function and pop in some content

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An exceptionally written article about grid based design for the web from the guys at Designin Former.

The minute I seen this “mini site”, I feel in love with it. Everything just gels together and oozes elegance. The minimal set-up uses a gorgeous sleek (and large!) font as the main heading and gently introduces the reader to the guts of the article with a nice excerpt.

The clear separation of content and visual hierarchy really do it for me on this one and I love that it’s in no way cluttered but still offers stunning aesthetics.

He has a range of sites in a number of different sectors ranging from free stuff to gifts.
PersonalisedGifts.co.uk is his first “big” domain purchase and felt it needed a design that matched up to it being the premium domain in this sector and to be a place to bring all the different personalised gifts out there together in one place.

We hope it does extremely well Mark and thank you for choosing Eire Studio!

Web Designer excellence: http://www.iia.ie/net-visionary/vote/13

Web Together, previously trading as ‘David Behan Web Design’ is one of Ireland’s best web design companies in my opinion. I admire their work alot and am happy that we have companies like this to put ‘Ireland on the map’ in the design industry. Good luck David.

Best use of Social media: http://www.iia.ie/net-visionary/vote/19

Blacknight Hosting is probably the best hosting company in Ireland and one that I use to host this very site. The MD, Michele Neylon is always on twitter/facebook etc giving out crazy promotions and discounts, not that he needs to I’d say, so these guys are getting my vote for Best use of Social media. Good luck Michele.

Internet Entrepreneur: http://www.iia.ie/net-visionary/vote/7

Ronan O’ Brien is an Irish Serial Entrepreneur with some very successful businesses including The Costume Shop, Ireland’s biggest B2C e-commerce website and he is about to launch one or two more in the coming months! He is a professional, dynamic and very motivated entrepenuer. Good luck Ronan.

Voting closes: 30 April, so hurry up!