Irish Guy Gets Sweet
Irish Guy Productions is getting sweet with a recent up-close photo shoot of busy, buzzing and very friendly honeybees. Photos taken for The Honeybee Project.
Thank you to Debra Roberts, the founder of The Honeybee Project, for sharing such insightful information and for getting me safety in a bee-suit and up close with the Honeybees. What a fun experience.
Over the coming months, Irish Guy Productions plan to be buzzing busy with The Honeybee Project - be sure to check back to see their new WordPress website, online video and audio programming and future projects.
The Honeybee Project
PBL’s National Awards Competition
Irish Guy Productions is proud to announce that Gary Crossey returned for the second year as a judge for the Competitive Events Series of the National Awards Program. PBL’s National Awards Program recognizes and rewards excellence in a broad range of business and career-related areas. Through state-based competition, students compete in events testing their business knowledge and skills. State winners compete for honors at the National Leadership Conference. Gary adjudicated two sections that included Digital Video Production and E-Business.
For the Digital Video Production contestants were required to produce a 4-minute informational video spot for high-school graduates about pursuing a career as an educator.
For the second topic, Gary reviewed and assessed the E-Business Web Site Development submissions. Students were responsible for designing and developing a user friendly E-commerce website that was cross-platform compatible, while adhering to web standards, accessibility and semantic guidelines.
Tutorial - Adobe Illustrator
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Easy to follow free tutorial. Learn with easy-to-follow steps, how to create “Gears” in Adobe Illustrator using the Incredibly powerful Rotate / Copy Tool. The Rotate/COPY tool is a very powerful tool.
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Tutorial written by: Gary Crossey
Changing Face of the Internet
The face of the Internet has changed - IS YOUR BUSINESS READY THIS TIME?
Ten years ago, we watched the rise and fall of the dot come environment due mostly to a misunderstanding to what role the Internet would play. People were also slower to connect than expected. This time around we already have savvy online users who are accessing the Internet regularly.
Figures for 2008 saw a 249% increase of Internet users from the UK accessing and contributing to online content with user friendly handheld devices. The increase in cell phone usage online has been predicable for several years, with the sale of desktop computers and laptop computers vastly declining. Many online users are effectively shopping and banking online, accessing en-route trip advisory, watching and transferring large media rich content, chatting, tweetering, and engaged in online Social Networking all from their handheld device. Recent research in New York determined that many online users no longer owe a computer and prefer the portability and accessibly a hand-held-device affords them. 
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Gearing up for Spring
Irish Guy Productions is a leading provider for online multimedia. We create compelling award winning and effective digital media solution for all platforms, events and target markets.
The changing online trends are quickly impacting many e-commerce websites as they continue to pursue website objectives using old, out-dated techniques and methodologies. If your website is acting like an online Business Card or you are pouring endless amounts of money into Google Ad Words then it is time for you to contact Irish Guy Productions for an effective online solution.
The face of the Internet is rapidly changing – Nielsen reported in March 2009 that email usage for the year had declined by 67%. And that the majority of online users are actively engaged on Social Network websites, with a slim 35% of online users not using Social Network sites.
Irish Guy Productions bring an innovated and creative fusion of Graphic Design, Web Development, Photography, Video Production, Motion Graphics, Sound Creation and Development, combined with our superior knowledge of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques and standards – to build online environments that are interesting, interactive and effective.
Contact: info@irishguy.info
Asheville, N Carolina
Recent Studies & Research
Example WP website: WordPress | Captain DJ iGUY | Developing with web standards index
Irish Guy Productions have spent the past year reviewing and working with a variety of different Content Management System (CMS) - many of you have seen the active results right here on our website - with quite a mixture of good and bad results. We have finally rested upon WordPress as our web tool. Compared to other similar online applications WordPress has an array of plug-ins, themes and customization capabilities that makes working with WordPress fun… but not without its challenges.
WordPress as a simple blog site is easy enough. Basically, install on your server and off you go. Adapting WordPress to function as a CMS is a completely different situation.
Irish Guy Productions utilize WordPress as the sturdy foundation to build upon, remodeling the system into a powerful online application that can easily integrate into the most popular social network websites, optimize SEO ranking, create automatic back-ups, authorize membership levels and responsibilities, conduct newsletter campaigns and subscription statistics, track online visitors, and yes also accessible for real-time updates and users usage from any computer or hand-held device that has an Internet connection – without additional software or expense.
Newsletter Update
Another busy month for Irish Guy Productions, with five new Adobe InDesign classes added in March. As well as launching the popular online greetings for DAGNABIT Animation firm.
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Upcoming Classes
Classes page is being updated. For a list of all upcoming classes and how to enroll, please visit the A-B Tech CE class web page.
