If you want to see some previous logo and website work we have completed check out this post and this post

Below are some logo designs we completed recently for various clients. In all examples we also took on the website design and build.

The Pav, Cork

DNA Ireland

Discovering Cork

Hydrolight

Kinsale

MAPP Centre

Karl Slyne Quantity Surveyor

Fleming and Barrett, Bandon Solicitors

Platinum Events

Legal IT

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JamJo is delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted as a finalist at this year’s IIA Net Visionary Awards. Specifically for the mighty title of Best Web Developer for ingenious engineering and meticulous delivery.

The Annual IIA Net Visionary Awards will be held on Friday September 26th at the Smock Alley Banquet Hall.

We’re very proud to be included amongst some other talented digital agencies and web developers in this category and best of luck to all!

It’s been a few years now since our humble beginnings but demand for our services have been steadily growing ever since.

Our client list has grown month on month and to date we’ve completed web projects for companies from Singapore to Sydney, from Dublin to New York. What initially started out as a simple web design service has developed into a full suite of web solutions including eCommerce websites, online communities, e learning, online publishing and more. We’ve also developed some nationally recognised brands to boot! (my, aren’t we in a self-applauding mood! )

A nomination like this is great recognition for all this hard work so we are chuffed to the hilt indeed!

The Annual IIA Dot ie Net Visionary Awards, now in their 16th year are a mainstay of the internet business calendar. Over the years, they have recognised the vision, entrepreneurship and innovation of leaders such as Michele Neylon, Eamon Leonard, Jerry Kennelly, Dylan Collins, Pat Phelan, Ray Nolan and many more.

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Some of the key things to note are:

• An improved Widget interface.
• Widget reordering
• Updated Visual Editor to the tinyMCE 4.0
• Copying and pasting from Word and email is now fine and all text will render without all the pesky styling!
• Gallery previews in posts
• the database has also been improved bringing compatiblity to PHP5.5 and MySQL 5.6
• PHP mysqli library is now used
• Autosave functionality has been improved

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However, many of our customers host their JamJo websites with hosting providers that were affected by this vulnerability because this vulnerability is large scale and very massive in terms of the amount of websites it has effected as you can read further on BBC.

With this in mind we urge all customers hosting their website with a different hosting provider to please ask their hosting provider if they are running the latest version of OpenSSL released on April 7th. This is important as your website login details potentially may have been exposed. There is no evidence to suggest that any website was compromised in any way due to this vulnerability, however, out of an abundance of caution, we’re urging our customers who have reset their passwords recently or logged in via their website and who are not hosting directly with us to take some additional steps to ensure the security of their websites.

Here is a handy little test a client of ours made us aware of, just put your website in here and click go: http://filippo.io/Heartbleed/

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If you are on a maintenance and support plan with JamJo your website and associated plugins will be riding high on the latest and greatest WordPress 3.8.1. There will be a major update to the WordPress core for WP3.9 next month. This month alone saw us upgrade more than 485 plugins across all sites. We’re busy keeping the sites fit, healthy and up to date.

Remember you can view a full list of maintenance updates by logging into your client account.

New Work

We’ve been busy tinkering in the workshop of the web and successfully launched various websites for a wide range of clients. Take a peek below at some of the new work including a sleek new widescreen look for Ulster Bank’s Business Achievers Awards (enter the awards here if you think your business has got the goods!) and a fresh new website for the Dublin meat suppliers Gahan Meats.

Know of someone in need of our website expertise? Get a Quote here.

A brand new website for Ulster Bank’s Business Achievers Awards 2014.

New brand, new website for KSQS; chartered quantity surveyors based in Cork.

Updated look and feel with some new functionality for the Small Business Can boys.

A fresh new website for the Dublin meat suppliers Gahan Meats.

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We want to wish all our clients a merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Here’s to 2014 and may all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions!;)

Limited Support

We’ll be taking our Christmas holidays this Friday (20/12/2013). That means there will be limited ticketed based support* from the 23rd of Dec to the 3rd of Jan. We’ll see you in the new year!

*You can open a ticket from your client area on JamJo.ie. Log in to your client area here.

Highlights 2013

Below we highlight some of the work JamJo completed over 2013.

www.mykidstime.ie – Kids listings and online store

www.isfmf.com – Film Music Festival based in Croatia

www.smallbusinesscan.com – UK/Ireland based business portal

www.gatewaysingapore.com – Business professional guide provider based in Singapore

www.rubiconcentre.ie – Ireland’s leading business innovation hub

Havana Bar Facebook – Cuban themed bar in Zagreb

www.ardmorepatternfestival.ie – Yearly festival in Waterford

www.havanabrowns.ie – Cork’s most exclusive nightclub

www.gardaretired.com – The Garda Síochána Retired Members Association

www.filfix.ie – Great small business based in Cork

www.uccconferencing.ie – University College Cork Conferencing

One of our personal projects. (top secret of course!) More on this in the new year….

Looking forward to 2014. Talk then folks!

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Modern aesthetic
The new WordPress dashboard has a fresh, uncluttered design that embraces clarity and simplicity.

Clean typography
The Open Sans typeface provides simple, friendly text that is optimized for both desktop and mobile viewing. It’s even open source, just like WordPress.

Refined contrast
We think beautiful design should never sacrifice legibility. With superior contrast and large, comfortable type, the new design is easy to read and a pleasure to navigate.

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• Stronger password recommendations: Your password is your site’s first line of defense. It’s best to create passwords that are complex, long, and unique. To that end, the password meter has been updated in WordPress 3.7 to recognize common mistakes that can weaken the password: dates, names, keyboard patterns (123456789), and even pop culture references.

• Better global support: Localized versions of WordPress will receive faster and more complete translations. WordPress 3.7 adds support for automatically installing the right language files and keeping them up to date, a boon for the many millions who use WordPress in a language other than English.

It’s worth noting again that WordPress has a new release cycle which can be summed up by saying, more and more releases of core updates will be made ready for download each quarter. JamJo will apply all updates for you, including all plugins and give you dedicated WordPress support as always. Without these updates you are vulnerable to hacks and malware so its best to keep all WordPress sites up to date with JamJo All client sites will be updated immediately.

No tricks just treats

Here is a little something from Count Basie everyone should enjoy!

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Spotted this tidy infographic on WordPress security. With so many people choosing WordPress as the go-to CMS (over 70  million websites, 1/2 of the top 100 blogs as ranked by Technorati) it was inevitable that some of these WordPress powered websites would become the victim of malicious attacks.

There’s a whole world of knowledge out there about WordPress security (enough to make your head spin!) but there are still some simple steps that you can follow to keep your WordPress website secure. Here’s a few basic tips on WordPress security…

• Backup your WordPress website regularly
• Keep your WordPress website updated
• Avoid themes from untrusted sources
• Use well established hosting companies
• Ensure your computer is free of viruses and malware
• Use strong passwords!!!
• Install a security plugin

At JamJo we offer a managed WordPress hosting service that takes care of the hosting, security, maintenance and ongoing support of your WordPress website. We also assist in the event of a hack or presence of malicious software. If you’re in need of JamJo’s services please call us now on 021 242 8361 or drop us  aline here.

Explore more infographics like this one on the web’s largest information design community – Visually.

 

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This is one of those questions we get asked here at JamJo on a number of occasions. We cover it in hundreds of emails and we talk about it over the phone on almost every single call. “Website Maintenance, why is it so important?” I will attempt in this post to outline why after you build a website you simple must have some maintaining your website if you are not doing it regularly yourself.

First and Foremost what does Website Maintenance include?

• All WordPress Updates (Core, Themes, Plugins)
• Free WordPress Migration
• Compatibility Support (Plugins & Themes)
• Preventative Maintenance
• Scheduled Backups
• Sucuri Malware Monitoring/Clean Up
• Monthly WordPress Support (One hour support)

There is actually loads more to this but the above are the key components.

Why do I need it?

Most importantly your website is important – when you launch it you put in alot of hard work and probably spent alot of money to get it just right and online in the very first instance. After about 1 month of launch your website software and your plugins you have installed on your website will indeed be out of date. With the rapid increase in development cycles and versions releases a website no longer lasts 6 months before a new version of the CMS (Content Management System) or plugin – it’s now every 2 weeks to 1 month that you will need to update things. So the points below are really a fact of website life these days not a nice addon to have!

1. Security

How many of you have had Malware on your sites before firing out thousands of unwanted emails from your website? How many of you have been hacked before and had some hacker message posted on your homepage about a security flaw in your site or one of your plugins? Every week we up all WordPress plugins and make sure everything is compatible. Without these updates I am afraid to say your WordPress website will go out of date and this is a security issue for your website. A site that is out of date in terms of the Core WordPress or the plugins is a one waiting for something to go wrong!

2. All WordPress Updates

If it can be updated in your WordPress admin, we will update it for you, almost as soon as the updates are released. A real developer, backing up and updating your site. This includes core, themes and plugins. We have a backup procedure that we follow before we ever click the update button. Once more you could of course click the update button but the time and costs associated with fixing a site if something goes wrong can outweigh a years worth of regular maintenance so just do it the right way and make sure an expert is maintaining your site for you.

3. Preventive Maintenance

We will audit and secure your site and set you up for success during our setup process. Every site and hosting environment is different, so we work with you to find the best fit. We run security plugins to monitor and make sure your installation is completely locked down and only authorized users are logging to maintain your websites content.

4. Scheduled Backups

Regularly scheduled backups that fit your needs. We are fanatical about backups, we store backups on Amazon Cloud and we store backups of the database to any location you wish.

5. Sucuri Malware Monitoring

World class security monitoring and malware attack cleanup from the leaders in the industry, Sucuri Security. Stop attacks before they start, eliminate malicious code if they happen; all free with JamJo.

6. Monthly WordPress Support

Every month you get access to our team of developer for website maintenance and support services* to use for anything you need: installing a plugin, cleaning up CSS issues. We have our support policy here if you wish to read further.

Need WordPress Maintenance?

We carry out all this work on a month to month basis with no long contracts and all for less than the price of your Mobile Phone bill! We believe your website is as important as your mobile phone so our advice is keep it up to date. We keep your website safe and up to date and we support you along the way. The growing trend is that most websites online today are out of date so lets start to change that. Get in touch and I am sure we can give some advice at the very least.

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