We have been pleasantly surprised by this quick colour matcher - which helps you choose colour schemes for your website to match your logo, or a particular photo you wish to use. Have a look and try it out yourself.
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Convert Image Formats for free
July 28, 2009If you are not too techie and find problems with images that won’t open in your software or won’t work on your website – try this quick online image format converter – its free.
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Optimise Images for your Website
June 10, 2009 By optimizing your website images to reduce their file sizes can vastly speed up your page response time. Not only does this makes your web pages load faster, but can reduces your bandwidth consumption, which can help keep your hosting bills from growing.
There are several free tools available at your disposal to shrink and optimize images.

Speed up Image loading with software that strips your images for web
Here are 3 for you to try out…….
Smush- it!
Riot – this has also remove image metadata and has a few handy tools
Easy Thumbnails – one I use myself for shrinking batches of images.

Make your website available in many languages
May 29, 2009Ireland no longer is a single ( or dual) language nation. In the last 5 years the number of languages being spoken in citys and towns throughout ireland has increased manyfold.
You might also be considering ensuring your website can reach out to more and more nations and speak their language.
Have a look at www.coachtoursofireland.ie and try their Translate button on their home page and select different languages.
This is a low cost effective tool which you can add to your website or contact www.handyweb.ie if you are not web proficient – who will assist you.


