Advantage Online

We believe that your website should give your business an advantage online.

If your existing website isn't performing well, or if you need help getting your new business online, then drop us a line.

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Read more about our clients

  • Lumenia

    Drupal website for ERP consultants

  • NIHE Public

    OpenText Livelink website for government agency

  • NIHE Touch

    Award winning mobile website

  • ClareFM

    Drupal website for local radio station

  • McCarthy

    Wordpress website for financial consultants

My name is Marc Patterson and I’m the founder of Patterson Consulting – a web development and training consultancy based in Galway, Ireland.

After a 12 year career working as an IT consultant, building web applications for large businesses and government departments, I set up Patterson Consulting with the aim of delivering the same high quality, innovative websites at an affordable cost for all businesses regardless of their size or budget.

At Patterson Consulting we specialise in building websites using web content management systems – software that lets you look after the content of your website yourself, with no need for learning nerdy code or having to employ a webmaster. This makes your website easy to update, more responsive to your changing business needs, with the flexibility to add in functionality such as blogs, shopping carts, social media, and more.

Drop us a line and find out how we can help get your business online.

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Services

We can assist you with every stage of your website project – whether it’s designing and building a brand new website for your business or extending and improving your existing website.

Web Design

We can help you with all the design aspects of your website – developing your brand identity (business name, logo, tagline, typography) or designing the user interface, structure and functionality of the website.

Our graphic designers have over 15 years experience in designing eye-catching, feature-rich websites that work consistently across all devices – from desktops to mobile devices.

Web Development

We love building websites, and because we’re not tied to one particular technology, we can pick the right system for your business requirements – we don’t just re-package something we did for a previous customer!

We tend to favour open source (free!) software like Drupal and WordPress, but that’s not for everyone so we’ve also got extensive experience in Microsoft technologies such as SharePoint and ASP.NET, and we are also experts in OpenText Livelink WCM (aka Obtree).

Support

Our innovative content management solutions allow you to update your website yourself using your web browser, without any input from us. If you can use a word processor like Microsoft Word then you can use our content management solutions.

But, if you do need our help, we’re only an email or a phone call away. Even if someone else built your website, we can help you with any issues that might crop up – we’ll not leave you stuck!

Training

Training is a key component of all our projects. When we deliver a content management system to your business, we’ll give you all the training you need to update your website quickly and easily.

Not only do we provide training to our clients, but as Certified Trainers, we also deliver Microsoft Official Courses in ASP.NET Web Development, SharePoint and open source technologies such as MySQL, PHP, WordPress, and Drupal.

Clients

Here are just a few of the clients we've worked with recently. Most of our customers have come to us via personal recommendations from other clients, or via repeat business, which tells its own story. Click on a client name to view a screenshot.

Northern Ireland Housing Executive

We’ve worked closely with the Housing Executive since 2008, initially supporting their legacy OpenText Livelink WCM website, then completely redesigning the website and building an awarding-winning mobile version.

We are currently developing bespoke ASP.NET web forms for NIHE and helping them customise their Microsoft SharePoint 2013 intranet portal.

ClareFM Radio

We built our first website for ClareFM way back in 2000, and we were delighted when they came back to us in 2009 to design and develop a new website using the open source Drupal content management system.

We updated the design again in 2012 and we continue to provide training and support to their web management team.

BSM / Lumenia

BSM, a Galway-based team of ERP and Lean consultants, were our first Drupal clients in 2008.

We have been their trusted web partners ever since – upgrading the original website from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7, and then helping them as they split their business into two distinct brands – Lumenia and BSM.

We have also developed several smaller websites for their Lean Laboratory sub-brand, and their ERP HEADtoHEAD event.

MySQL and PHP Training for FÁS

Over the past 4 years, our consultants have delivered MySQL and PHP developer training to long-term unemployed students, on behalf of FÁS (now SOLAS) – the Irish Government Further Education and Training Authority.

Each course consists of between 14 and 20 weeks of full-time classroom-based training, leading to the award of Oracle Certified Professional MySQL 5.6 Developer. Check out our blog for more information on the course content.

NIDirect

NIDirect is the official government website for Northern Ireland.

In 2008, we provided our content management expertise to help their web team plan and then migrate thousands of pages of content from the UK DirectGov website, which used Oracle Stellent, into a new OpenText Livelink site.

NI Planning Portal

We first started working with the NI Planning Service in 2005, via HP Services, and helped them to plan, design and build their internet and intranet portals using OpenText Livelink. This work included integrating Livelink with the UK Government Gateway and third party ASP.NET applications, and taking advantage of many of the advanced features of Livelink.

We continue to provide on-going support and maintenance for their OpenText Livelink system.

Contact

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Email Us

info@pattersonconsulting.ie

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+353 (0)83 319 3229