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golf society mobile friendly website

New golf society website goes live

As sponsors of The St. Stephen’s Golf Society we were asked to upgrade the existing design to add more pages and get the design mobile friendly (responsive). As an active member of the society, baby sleeping aids products, company director Nigel Stevenson also suggested that the new design used more image content and made the site easier and quicker to update. Using the WordPress web page design platform the new website now has an image gallery and blog post pages for the new season. Image content has increased by over 50% and of course the pages can be viewed on any device including the smaller smart phone screens without loss...

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number one BB new website design in kent

Number One B and B in Deal new website

Always a great pleasure to work with home town (Deal, Kent) businesses, getting a commission from an award winning business is even sweeter! This is our second website design for a UK award winning B and B, last year we re-designed Alkham Valley B and B, voted Englands top B and B accommodation. Number One in Deal Kent picked up a similar award along with regional honours over the past few years. Number One’s new website used existing text and some imagery but Oast House Media assisted with free image sourcing and SEO on all pages. We’ve also installed an interactive gallery so potential customers can get a good idea...

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wordpress websites

Padfield Thatchers WordPress website design training session

We completed the Padfield Thatchers website earlier this year, owner Mark Padfield wanted to take up our special offer of a low cost WordPress conversion for his existing design. As part of the re-design package we offer FREE WordPress training, problem was time, not enough in the day for these busy Kent Thatchers to take up the offer here in Great Mongeham. But with Christmas nearly with us, Mark decided to take advantage of the holiday week and use the time to learn how to edit his web pages. Company director Nigel Stevenson took Mark through the basic page editing process inc: editing text adding new images creating posts adding...

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messages

BT email problems – our IT support version of events

As many of you already know we use Callout Computers for IT support. They’ve been fixing clients computers for nearly 15 years now so when this latest BT email problem surfaced I asked them to put together a report for our clients. Hopefully this sheds some more light on the email problems many of you are suffering Email report There is a common problem with sending mail through BT, which several of our customers have encountered. This issue is caused by BT implementing a system to prevent spam from being sent through their system. These anti-spam features built into the server which are designed to stop you from sending mail...

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BT blocking emails

Over the past few weeks we’ve had several clients complaining that their emails are either not been delivered or received. The latest client complaining about the same delivery  issue said his contact page form was not being received. In ALL cases the common denominators were BT was the ISP (internet service provider) The email was a forwarder* On investigation we discovered that BT is blocking email forwarders, many other email providers like us are complaining about the changes and lack of information coming from the BT source. Here’s a good illustration of the issues Heart Internet are having this year. Sample incident report: www.heartstatus.uk/incidents/1gg04n30k6x8 What to do? If you use...

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yellow pages

50 years of Yell!

Each year we watch the yearly doorstep delivery of the Yellow Pages get thinner and thinner. This years edition is no different and also proudly boasting 50 years ‘connecting buyers and sellers’. There’s no doubt back in the day this was your first port of call when you needed something and also well supported by some famous adverts, but what’s gone wrong? I’m willing to bet a small wager that most of you haven’t picked up a Yellow Pages in the past 5 years, I’m also willing to double or quits that wager with a prediction you used a web search engine, probably Google instead? That’s why your business has...

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new website design for canterbury tree surgeon

Just in time for the storms!

Canterbury based tree surgeon John Barton has been a website design client for many years, he was in fact the first tree surgeon with a website back in the day. John’s advertising partners have been on at him for some time to go ‘mobile friendly’ and having read our monthly newsletter about responsive website design, he called and we got the conversion process going. The brief from John was to comply with the Google ‘responsive’ web page requirement and expand his geographical keywords to compliment his Yell.com campaign and paper advertising. This type of business is one of the few left still using traditional paper based marketing! The conversion process...

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website page and email server hosting in kent

Server upgrade completed

Message to all clients to let you know the server upgrade was completed at 8.30 this morning. No reported issues Many thanks to all clients for their co-operation and a big thanks and well done to our excellent support team

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website page and email server hosting in kent

Server upgrade notice

As we continue to improve our website design services we occasionally have to implement updates that impact on our clients, most updates are done seamlessly and without disruption to ‘up time’. This weekend our entire web hosting is moving to a much larger, quicker and more future proof system called ‘CIRRUS’. Working with our host partners and monitoring on a weekly basis we’ve identified a possible issue with system overload. Why upgrade? We receive twice daily ‘NodeQuery’ system level reports that keep a close eye on the status of your web pages, emails and the server in general. Due to development/usage/activity especially on WordPress accounts the servers have overloaded several...

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free images for websites

FREE images for website clients

Some trades really struggle to find suitable photos for their websites, especially the financial and legal sectors of business. The answer is abstract or situation photography but that can cost a lot of money to commission a professional photographer. Here at Oast House Media we have access to millions of FREE or low cost photos (and graphics) to enhance your WordPress website design. We can also commission and project manage professional photographers or take the photos ourselves. See our FREE images for websites page for more about our image services which include: FREE image supply FREE research and sourcing Low cost image library photos Professional photography commissioning and project management...

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