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Sandvox Website Profile: “International Year of Astronomy in Ireland”

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Sandvox was the choice for Miruna Popescu to build her website for Irish Node for the International Year of Astronomy. She chose the “Dolphin IYA” design for the site.

International Year of Astronomy in Ireland (Website is no longer listed here.)

Sandvox features used for this site:External Page, Photo Grid, Custom Collection Index, Site Map, Contact Form, QuickTime Audio/Video, RSS Feed Object, Other Objects, Editing HTML of text, Raw HTML Object

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Describe your website.

The website is a portal to astronomy events happening across the island of Ireland in 2009, year designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Astronomy.

Who is the target audience for your website?

People interested about astronomy-related events happening in Ireland.

Tell us a story about this website.

Our first major event was a live webcast of the winter solstice from Newgrange. In that day, the visits to the website went up amazingly. We have received compliments from all a round the world

Why did you use this Sandvox design?

It looks simple and stylish and I could easily incorporate the International Year of Astronomy banner on the top.


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This website was created by Miruna Popescu of Armagh, Northern Ireland.


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