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Lost web name recovery – case study

We’ve reported this disaster before but it’s well worth reminding website owners to make sure they have their web name account information safely archived. One of our clients website ‘disappeared’ last month taking web pages and emails with it – why? The owner had relied on a relative to manage her primary web name, ie: purchase, renew etc, but there was a breakdown in communication and the web name was’nt maintained and the registrant company (based in USA) de-registered it! The relative could not be contacted so the business, which relies totally on web inquiries, ceased to trade. We recommended the .co.uk variant which was purchased and now the site...

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Managing your web names

The majority of our web clients purchase and pay for their own web names. We always recommend that the client makes this purchase as it is an integral part of their business and without ‘ownership’ they are vulnerable to loss. Over the years we’ve come across some real horror stories; company websites (and emails) disappearing because the person who purchased the web name no longer exist. We even had a client who’s ex wife purchased the business web name but would not release the account information! Some of these clients when asked think that because they paid an invoice to a 3rd party (ie web design company) they own the...

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Deal barber shop commission cutting edge website design

Local (Deal, Kent) barbers commission a new WordPress website to raise the profile of their new high street salon. Owner Steve Lavery has been looking at a new website for some time and a chance meeting with Oast House Media director Nigel Stevenson under the blade of a cut-throat resulted in a mutually reciprocal exchange in skills coming soon: mrdapperbarbers.co.uk

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Sandwich Events website – Press Release

Our new WordPress website design for Sandwich Community Events Association reviewed by Kent On-Line. Oast House Media get a mention as chairman Steve Laslett launches the new website through this popular local newspaper. It’s great news for residents and visitors to Sandwich Town who have some very active and enthusiastic community groups. Thanks to Steve’s management skills and ‘never say no’ attitude Sandwich has one of the best community calendar of events in Kent. It’s been great fun working with Steve on the old website design for the past 4 years, Oast House Media hope the new design serves the people of Sandwich just as well with… improved mobile access...

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Sandwich events calendar website goes live

We’ve been looking after events in Sandwich for a few years now but with the new Google ‘mobile friendly’ responsive website design requirement it was time for the Sandwich Events volunteer team to refresh their successful and very popular events website. Thousands of visitors coming to Sandwich (Kent) every year and the majority using mobile devices to find out what is happening, a WordPress calendar plug-in was used to profile all local events. The calendar used was a FREE plug in so all we had to do was set the basic events up and hand over to the client. A one hour training session was enough to get the team...

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Fishy tail for new website design

The nice thing about being a website design company is the diversity of clients. Sandwich Lakes have been web clients of over 5 years and wanted to update their website to show off the fantastic fishing facilities on offer at their Ash premises. Apart from the ‘responsive’ WordPress web design, the web pages are easy to navigate on any device. This is particularly import as local fishermen will access important lake information using mobile phones, ie: lake charts, directions, news about recent catches, tackle shop prices and of course booking a peg! We’ve also upgraded the image gallery so the client can add photos from the waterside giving the fisherman...

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harbour print new website design

Local signage company website design is not sticking around

Harbour print based in the old western docks rail station, Dover have been web clients for many years now. The original website was designed by owner Stuart Divito with a bit of guidance from us so all we had to do was convert his design files. The new WordPress ‘responsive’ design simply followed on from that design styel but the client wanted more imagery to view on the new web pages. Having built up a large portfolio of work and many images of signage, printing and design this has been a very easy project to put together. It’s always a pleasure to work with fellow design trades who understand the...

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Spy in the cab website in the fast lane (update)

The tachograph has been euphemistically called the ‘the spy in the cab’ for years but did you know it was originally used on trains? The Daniel Tachometer was used on railways in 1844 and in 1985 tachographs were mandatory throughout the EEC for commercial trucks. I’m not saying that Faversham based Operator Compliance owner Clive Glaze has been specialising in Tachograph Analysis since 1844 but he certainly packs in the knowledge with over 20 years in the business. As an existing client we offered Clive a ‘like-for-like’ conversion to a Google mobile friendly ‘responsive’ website design last year (2015) through our regular client newsletters. With the transport trade mostly using...

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New commercial property management website goes live

Long term clients Proprisk from Sandwich, Kent took advantage of our one off website re-design offer last year and in return we created a responsive mobile friendly WordPress website. We’ve also built in the SEO requirements, images and text for a straight forward like-for-like design. With a free training session due in the next few days our client will be able to add new text, images and change keywords without involving us – keeps the overheads down! see website: proprisk.co.uk

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How to monitor and manipulate your Google position!

We’ve just completed a comprehensive search on Google using 3 devices and the same ‘website design’ based search terms. It’s something we’ve been doing for years and strongly recommend to all our clients using a list of pre-agreed search terms like our ‘website designers in Kent‘ sample. On the table below you can see in the first column: search text, this is the list of terms you think folk will use to find you. Initially this may be a bit hit or miss but by asking your customers ‘how did you find us’ you can usually deduce the common terms. In the second column I’m showing the results on a...

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