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Where does Google Maps get its traffic data from?

What gives you the most up to date road map when you’re travelling, your car sat nav or Google Maps? The problem with the car sat nav is if you don’t keep the software up to date the map information can be wrong, whereas Google Maps is live using Android phone data. Just under 50% of all phones use the Google Android OS (operating system) in the UK. When an Android phone is turned on their Google Maps app with GPS location is enabled. Google already know what average road speeds should be from historical data and sensors on the roads, so when that changes with crowd sourced live streaming...

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Slow loading web pages to be penalised by Google

Google have announced that their Chrome browser will soon be monitoring websites that are slow loading. A warning message will be displayed to let you know the website they are attempting to view could take a while to load. This will typically affect websites with large amounts of content especially images. We see this as a bit of a retrograde decision with so many countries now enjoying quick broadband speeds but there is a possible data use issue so lite websites could save Google a lot of money. Here at Oast House Media we have been aware of image size for some time and filter all images supplied for our...

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canterbury airport transfers website

Airport transfers new website design goes live

Last month we blogged that Canterbury based airport transfers company Canterbury Airport Transfers had commissioned a new WordPress website. This is a very competitive market so a top web design with good SEO was required but to achieve we also needed to supply: new logo design graphic design free images copy writing SEO content Google map design We took a look at the competition and realised none of them use Google’s powerful ‘my maps’ software. With this free service you can create your own maps and locations. We built one a few years ago for a local restaurant, since then Google have added some great new features that help enhance...

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Google forces web security changes – HTTPS

Google Chrome will tag your HTTP web pages as 'Not Secure'

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Kent tile centre website design

Kent Tile Centre Canterbury, new website design

old for new WordPress website re-design design goes live.

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New Year, the evolution of website design and the internet

Oast House Media was the first commercial website design company in Deal, Kent

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Tracking your website’s Google position

We reported this topic a few months ago but SEO (search engine optimisation) has changed so here’s our latest ‘best practice’ guide update. Using Google’s webmaster tools is fine and we recommend it as a great SEO tool but you can’t beat a manual test – this is how we track our Google position on Google SERPs (search engine results pages). Clear your browsing history First and foremost you MUST clear any history cached by your web browser (it changes results), on our devices using Firefox the ‘clear history’ is under the ‘history’ tab, nice and easy. Ideally you need to clear this every time you search (We’ve got an...

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Why use us for your web design?

If you Google “website designers in Kent”, or “East Kent” you will probably find a list of good quality designers profiling their work on some very nice websites. If you’re looking for a new website designer that may sway your decision process, ie… They’re top of google in their own trade Their own website is nicely designed And to be honest that’s a great start so why look any further? A website is not just for Christmas Sorry to use the C word in September but it is important to remember your website designer is a long term business partner, so will they… Reply to your email questions quickly? Pick...

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Happy Birthday Google – comes of age!

Happy birthday Google, 18 years young and still growing strong. From a web designers point of view I think you do a great job considering all the black hat things going on. From a client/browsers point of view, it’s a great service Just pay the taxes and even more folk will love you!

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sandwich lakes new wordpress theme

WordPress website re-theme

We built the new Sandwich Lakes website earlier this year, see blog; but having reviewed the site a few months later the owner wanted to make more of their high quality image archive. The site, as it stood, was using a very WordPress theme but the content overlay structure took away the image impact. We did some research and suggested a new theme with virtually no home page text, what do you think? See website sandwichlakes.co.uk There’s one big issue that we also made the client aware of, not having content on the home page (Google’s first point of contact) may reduce SEO presence. There are many factors that make...

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