Another website enquiry, Owenbeg are a Dover based construction company servicing the Kent and South East London areas. Oast House media assisted with the web name purchase and holding page set-up. The new WordPress website will showcase Owenbeg projects and reviews. New website coming soon: www.owenbeg-contracts.co.uk
Long term website design clients Number One B and B in Deal, Kent are one of the top accommodation venues in East Kent. Just a few yards from the sea the rooms and breakfasts are first class. That’s OK, we all know that in Deal but holiday makers and businesses from outside the area rely on Google to find a place to rest. Therefore having a professional web design and a Google search engine optimisation marketing plan in place is vital. As you can see from the most recent campaign month Number One B and B is nearly page one on Google for all the most popular search terms This...
Oast House Media’s MD Nigel Stevenson and family have lived in Great Mongeham for over 20 years, the family home is a 300 year old thatched cottage. The thatched roof is maintained by website design and SEO clients Padfield Master Thatchers. With the 22 year old thatch requiring an overhaul, Mark Padfield and his young team of skilled thatchers commenced work in June 2020. Taking the opportunity Nigel also offered to upgrade some of the older photos with a new set for the website refresh. Nigel said…”getting the team together was not easy with 2 local thatch projects on the go, we got lucky with the weather and took several...
Post comments can be a gateway for spam. All posts have a comments option for feedback, when we set up posts for all clients we turn off this comments box to stop spammers adding content. We are now having to change the ‘settings/discussion’ settings to stop hackers adding comments to your posts. So keep an eye on the Dashboard ‘comments’ section and if you see something like this example contact us and we can do a quick fix without charge Why does this happen? Historically WordPress is a blogging platform that morphed into web design. The page post system used to blog is a unique and very powerful way of...
Here at Oast House Media we’ve seen an increase in WordPress web design training requests since the Covid 19 pandemic started. Mostly existing clients either requesting a refresh, or taking advantage of the free training session we offer with every new web design. With restrictions in place we use peer to peer on-line training which has proved to be very popular. The client stays in the office and we take over their screen and walk them around the WordPress Dashboard. It takes on average just 30 minutes for a refresh, up to an hour for new clients. A typical training session will include: Dashboard overview Page and post edting Adding...
With new web design clients joining us every month and the increased interest in websites and Google search engine optimisation, it’s very important to get some feedback from everyone using Oast House Media. Our newsletter (see July 2020) goes out every other month via the Mail Chimp e-mail system which also gives us an insight as to who looks at the content and which articles are of interest. For example, the graphic shows us that the Manston article was more popular than the training post, no surprise there, the same item was covered by the BBC the previous day and as SEO copy writers we were using the news spike...
It would appear that peer to peer is very appealing! As we continue to design and launch new websites through the lock-down period, training the client on how to update their new websites had to go on-line. In the past we’ve either go to the clients offices or they come to OHM. Restriction forced the change and it worked brilliantly. We miss the cup of tea and chat but peer to peer is the way to go and OHM will be on-line instructors in the future. How does it work? Using dedicated software, the client downloads a designated peer to peer program, launches then issues the ID and password, OHM...
We’ve recently completed a new brochure style website design for Gillingham based electrical wholesaler Priority Electrical (see news post). But with Covid 19 restricting shop footfall, owner Simon Fowler requested a bolt on e-commerce shop. Having already completed the design, adding the Woo-Commerce WordPress shop plug-in and integrating into the PayPal payment system was straight forward, but Priority Electrical already had an extensive digital database for stock control, could it be synchronised with the on-line shop? With a few tweaks yes. Woo-Commerce have some clever plug-in partners that can convert CSV (spreadsheet) lists to on-line product data saving hundreds of man hours. Work in progress as of date of this...
A referral from one of our design clients converted to a website design for a new restaurant in Sandwich. The design will help launch this new venture on the old Hop and Huffkin site with the promise of Mediterranean cuisine see website: tan-bueno.co.uk
There is no doubt that as predicted in our late March 20 news blog “Covid 19, an opportunity not to be missed?” the enforced lock-down has re-focused business owners and their web presence. Just this week we’ve had several new web design enquiries and 2 e-commerce shop requests for quotes. As we convert these to actual live accounts we will add to our new clients new posts There’s also the massive increase in web activity as isolated families/businesses look to find what they want on-line, many of these folk are first time users. At the moment, relying on the old ‘word of mouth’ referral simply will not cut it any...
