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OHM help raise £8000 for local charity

Oast House Media MD and keen golfer Nigel Stevenson joined a group of local Deal based businesses raise money for The Martha Trust at Walmer and Kingsdown Golf Club. Martha Trust based in Hacklinge, Nr Deal, look after young people and adults over the age of 18. They are a home for life for residents, a local care home that offers respite and much needed support for families. On the day and after the raffles, auction, spot prizes and entry fees Martha Trust Fundraising & Events Officer Kerry Banks (BEM) confirmed a total of £8,000 was raised for this local respite care charity. Alas OHM did not pick up any...

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ask web design scaffolders in kent

New website for Kent based Scaffolders

Another existing client referral, ASK scaffolding services are based in Thanet covering all of Kent. They specialise in residential, commercial and specialist scaffolding projects, something owner Tom Brown want to emphasise on his new WordPress website design. So, rather than bunch all the services on to one page, OHM suggested that the residential, commercial and specialist scaffolding sections have their own pages. This enables a greater scope for keyword phrase use thus enhancing Google search engine optimisation (SEO) requirements. OHM also contacted the logo designers and used their new design corporate colours in the style of the web pages, see holistic web design. As the client works on future scaffolding projects,...

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george a stevenson political analyst

New web design for Political Analyst

George A Stevenson is a young political analyst based in Kent and at present studying politics at Christchurch University. His new web pages and more importantly post pages will profile new thinking about global politics. First up: “Nuclear Deterrence and Hybrid Warfare – A Chinese Perspective” and why not! Oast House Media are proud to support young academics with logo and web design. Along with charities and social clubs we offer discounted web and logo design

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merit interior design new wordpress web design in deal kent

Another Yell.com customer moves to OHM for new web design

A suppose we should thank Yell.com, they spend all that time marketing and building customer websites, then throw it all away with poor support and lack of search engine optimisation. Merit Interior Design based in Sandwich are yet another new OHM web design client who says exactly the same thing when they contact us: “Yell don’t fix the issues” (updates) “My Yell web pages don’t rank on Google” “It’s very expensive” “They take your money but don’t reply to requests” So what is the difference between Yell.com web design and Oast House Media? It’s a lovely list to hold bragging rights over a much bigger organisation, but here it is:...

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oporator compliance wordpress website redesign

Upgrade web design for spy in the cab

Operator Compliance are a Tachograph Analysis company for the haulage trades, but their old website was out of date and (excuse the pun) high mileage. The road to re-design was opened by OHM in the guise of a WordPress website re-design special offer. Business owner Clive Glaze took the opportunity to overtake competitors with a new web look and feel that will last for years to come. All jokes aside, this is a very important service that keeps drivers and other road users safe, OHM are proud to support Operator Compliance.

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free updates for web pages in kent

FREE website updates for OHM clients

As part of our web hosting, Oast House Media have always offered a FREE updates service to all web design clients using our servers. We have been aware that some updates my be required in the life of a website. Apart from our ‘behind the scenes’ updates to servers, WordPress and plug-ins, we also carry out minor updates for clients FREE of charge.. An example of this is Teynham Construction based in Sittingbourne who have a legal/contractual requirement to update their document downloads section. This web page contains PDF downloads for insurance, public liability, waste management etc certificates. OHM upload the new certificates and add to their download page. It’s...

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web name domains gtld

Web name reseller making it not so easily

When Oast House Media was incorporated in 2004 we were print and web designers with the trend towards website design. Using our wealth of print management experience we knew we needed to partner with some reliable, good value UK web service suppliers. One such company came highly recommended: www.easily.co.uk The Oast House Media portfolio of web names were all purchased through easily.co.uk. At the time they were very efficient, good value and most importantly accessible to discuss any issues arising. Having found a great service we started to recommend easily.co.uk to all our new web design clients who, based on our feedback, commenced their web design process with an easily.co.uk...

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blackberry discontinued in kent

Bye Bye Blackberry

We all see mobile technology as a recent innovation but a market leader has already disappeared – Blackberry! Did you own a Blackberry mobile? If you’re of a certain age the answer is almost certainly yes. Physical keyboard, easy to use, aesthetically pleasing to the eye, compact, Blackberry was the market leader for many years. But what happened? Then came the iPhone Full touch screen and a raft of apps, the iPhone smashed Blackberry off the park. Blackberry were slow to react and took years to match the levels of tech and design the iPhones offered. Steve Jobs legendary presentations ridiculed his competitor, and they had no answer. The lesson...

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bradfield residential care home website re-design

Deal residential care home website re-design

Bradfield Residential Care Home in Walmer (Deal) have been web design clients for over 10 years. The new re-design was offered at a discount to upgrade the design theme and enhance their web presence. The new look and feel showcases their top rated CQC facilities and brings the website in line (corporate) with their other care home in Deal. With an array of care services and weekly activities the home page directs potential new clients and relatives of existing residents to the correct web pages see website: bradfieldresidentialhome.co.uk      

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search engine optimisation keyword phrases

How important is SEO for your website?

Here at Oast House Media we build SEO into all of our web pages as part of the price, but… What is SEO? SEO means Search Engine Optimisation, the process of optimising a web page to mazimise it’s impact on search engine results pages (SERPs). There are many areas within a website that Google identifies and actively seeks to cache and then use the data as a search element. Imagine your website is a jigsaw and each piece of your jigsaw is an SEO element. Some are easy to find (like the jigsaw corners or edges). Some are much harder to locate like the centre or large colour area jigsaw...

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