MKM are a national company recently located in Deal. Offering a large range of products from traditional building materials to Garden and Home products, MKM local representative Ross Musty has offered all OHM clients a discount on their ranges. Subject to existing offers and account agreements, give Ross a call on 07741 166 051 to find out more
As members of the local Deal Town Chamber of Trade, OHM director Nigel Stevenson was invited to the 2019 General Election Hustings. Always a lively event, the 2019 Hustings held in Deal Town Hall yesterday (2-12-19) was no exception. The questions were mainly business based with the Brexit issue surprisingly only coming up once. The Labour candidate Charlotte Cornell was well supported and added an edge to the evening with Conservative Natalie Elphicke (wife of the Dover MP Charlie Elphicke who is standing down) following the party line with most of her answers. Liberal Democrats, Simon Dodd and The Green Party, Beccy Sawbridge both held their own with some interesting...
Last weekend director Nigel Stevenson took a flying visit to European PUBG gaming HQ in Amsterdam. Son Jack is the corporate designer for PUBG putting together graphics for game covers, game features and corporate promo material. To put the size of this popular on-line game into perspective, Nigel’s Oast House Media web designs are viewed in the local area with a potential audience of just under 250,000, Jacks signed up on-line audience is 600 million worldwide! For the budding young designers out there, Jack’s artistic career started at Canterbury College and UCA Rochester, first job was for Medway based gaming company and then onto PUBG. Still in his 20’s Jack’s...
Counterfeiting is an age old problem and is probably more prevalent today than it has ever been. For example, here at Oast House Media we are always banging on about image use and copyright – either protecting your original work or using someone elses. We’ve seen many cases (no pun intended) of clients coming to us with images and sometimes text copied directly from a competitors website in clear breach of UK copyright law. The whole subject is a minefield and a very expensive one if you get it wrong. One of the earliest examples of a company trying to protect their produce was the famous Rioja wine brand. In...
It’s always nice to show off a bit about your kids especially when they have a bit of success, son Jack Stevenson is alas the only off spring to join director Nigel Stevenson in the design trades. “Like me, Jack also studied at Medway College of Design but these days it’s accredited with university status. I left art college with a City and Guilds, Jack has a design degree. Same meat different gravy you could say but it was nice to know we both shared the same inspirational space. After leaving college in 1975 I started work with GEC Marconi at Rochester Airport and 23 years later aspired to...
As web designers in Kent we work with a range of company types from sole traders to LTDs, recently we’ve noticed that some LIMITED companies are not complying to the law which requires all LIMITED companies to declare their status, here’s a direct quote from the government website: www.gov.uk/running-a-limited-company/signs-stationery-and-promotional-material Stationery and promotional material You must include your company’s name on all company documents, publicity and letters. On business letters, order forms and websites, you must show: the company’s registered number its registered office address where the company is registered (England and Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland) the fact that it’s a limited company (usually by spelling out the company’s full...
Dover based web design clients LCL International are ‘Brexit Ready’ so if you want to catch up on the latest Brexit road plans for East Kent go no further than their blog page: lclinternational.co.uk/brexit-news There’s an excellent Highways England road map showing the planed phased traffic release which might affect your travel plans should Operational Tap and Operation Stack fail. This will also include a stacking system similar to the Dover Tap on the A256 approach to Whitfield, permanent traffic lights and signage is already in place. Postscript Many thanks to OHM web design client Councillor Stephen Manion (Dover) who’s emailed over these useful links about local business and Brexit...
As a local web design company in East Kent we work with many local trades and get to understand how they work and what they do. From time to time we also engage some of these trade to work for us and refer to friends and family. Last month our old buddy Pete Davies called to ask if we knew of a tree surgeon, a window fitter and a general builder to do so work in his home Tree surgeons We have three tree surgeon clients, I gave Pete their web details and client names and he went for Hartlee Tree Surgeons based in Canterbury who did some crown reduction...
We try and get a website design newsletter out to all clients every other month unless something important comes up like Google updates, WordPress news etc. Usual features includes new clients lists, existing web client re-designs, logo design and information about how to go top of Google (SEO) and Word Press design changes. This latest newsletter is available now from our Newsletter host MailChimp
We don’t win every website inquiry but we give it our best shot. For example, local sportswear supplier contacted us about an e-commerce shop with warehouse product management built in. It was going to be a big website and we needed a solution for the back-end warehouse product (SKU) control. We located and contacted a supplier who turned out to be more than a match for the requirement. Alas we didn’t get the web page design part of the gig but here’s what the owner said about us… …I cant thank you enough for your time and advice as this system appears to be (and I believe will be) exactly...
