Colm Troy Author Page - Cofounder of CommerceGurus

Colm Troy

Colm starting off building HTML websites as a hobby during the first dotcom boom and was hooked on the web ever since. With over 15 years professional experience, Colm has helped lead the design and development of mission critical websites and web applications for industry leaders across Ireland, the UK and Europe. He specialises in Strategy formulation, Technical Architecture design, Product Development/Management and helping to lead high potential early stage startups to product/market fit and commercial success.

Today, Colm is Co-Founder of MadeInContext, one of Ireland’s leading companies specialising in creating digital properties primarily based around the world’s most popular open source Content Management System (CMS) called WordPress.

Founded in 2014, MadeInContext has experienced rapid growth thanks to the success of two digital properties, CommerceGurus (Software apps for the WooCommerce eCommerce platform), and CreateandCode (Software apps, tutorials and news for WordPress). Colm is a co-organiser for the WordPress Dublin Meetup and is also one of the organisers for the bi-annual WordCamp Dublin event.

Prior to co-founding MadeInContext, Colm spent 11 years working for one of Ireland’s largest web agencies, MediaOne, as Project Director.

Migrating from Magento Go to WooCommerce

By Colm Troy1 Comment

As some of you may already know, eBay is shutting down both Magento Go and Prostores in early 2015. For those of you currently running your online store on Magento Go this presents a major dilemma as to where you move your online store.

By Colm Troy1 Comment

There’s never been a better time to get started with selling online. In 2014, it’s possible for just about anyone to get an online store up and running in a matter of minutes. As an old man in internet terms this was simply unthinkable 10 years ago. Even 5 years ago your options were quite limited. Today you have almost too many options to choose from.

By Colm Troy2 Comments

40% of shoppers will abandon a page that takes 3 seconds or more to load. Don’t take our word for it. Listen to the really smart performance geeks over on Radware who determined that stat to be a hardcore fact in their 2014 eCommerce performance State of the Union. In the same report, Radware also determined that unoptimized images are the single greatest source of performance leaks for eCommerce sites.