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New logo design for Medway vehicle repairs business

Yet more logo design work for OHM as our highly successful Google SEO campaign targets Kent businesses,

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Top award for wedding video client

Congratulation to Confetti Wedding Videos based in Canterbury. Owner Steve Girdwood is a long term web design client and has managed videos and still photography

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Press typo error makes for a strange read

Have you every seen this in a news paper our magazine? It’s not an overseas title you’re looking at, this is a recent Kentish Gazette publication, can you understand it?

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Server migration completed

As part of our hosting services we occasionally have to upgrade our servers, just like your PC or Mac, servers get old and need changing.

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3rd time lucky web design

Hardy Aerials based in Deal have been web design clients for over 10 years but unlike most websites, this one is on its 3rd owner.

Client email server upgrade December 2022 migration information

As you are aware (clients), we are upgrading our email server. Emails have always been a FREE service offered to all new web design clients. To continue this service we are migrating your email account(s) and website to a new server. Why are we upgrading? Servers (like computers) become obsolete as technology, support and security move forward. Our present server has been deemed by our hosts as getting to it’s end date so to ensure the best support, a new server is required. How does the upgrade/migration affect the client? In theory there will be very little disruption to your email traffic as the transfer process is a mirror of...

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Golf Course WordPress Training up to Par

A few days after completing the web design: staugustinesgolfclub.co.uk, Oast House Media attended the second on site WordPress training session in as many weeks (see Ashford Umbrella WordPress Training). St Augustine’s Golf Club are course and club house very active so it was vital that committee members Chris and Brian were fully up to speed on how to create posts and how to edit content on the existing web pages. The 2 hour session covered: WordPress Dashboard overview Creating posts Editing pages Adding images and text content Google SEO best practice and managing the Yoast SEO plug-in We also offer as part of our hosting package, continued office hour support...

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Ashford Umbrella Centre WordPress training

Having just completed the Ashford Umbrella website re-design, Oast House Media met with Mark and Eddie to complete an intensive WordPress training session at the centers Ashford offices. During the 3 hour training session we covered all aspect of WordPress’s dashboard access including: page/post creation and editing adding images to pages/posts creating a Google friendly SERPs snippet editing text to create an attractive web page layout editing CSS fonts and colours editing page widgets general maintenance and security With our office hours support we continue to advise and update remotely to ensure the Ashford Umbrella Centre WordPress website is always at the top of its game see website: ashford-tenterden-umbrella.co.uk [top...

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Make-over for WordPress websites

One of the great things about a WordPress website is you can change its look and feel very quickly. WordPress is a “free and open-source content management system (CMS) written in hypertext preprocessor language with a MySQL database supported HTTPS” wiki. In other words it’s the skeleton that everything hangs from. The ‘skin’ that makes it look like a website is called the ‘theme’. WordPress themes are many and on the whole very professional. When we upload WordPress to your host platform it comes with a range of unsupported basic themes. Here at OHM we use tried and test, fully supported themes offering our clients a big choice. A replacement...

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Golf Challenge win for Oast House Media

Web and SEO clients Padfield Master Thatchers where at home for the golf challenge match against Oast House Media played at North Foreland in October 22. Master Thatcher Ross Chapman (1HC) and business owner Mark Padfield (14HC) got off to a slow start against the OHM team of Nigel Stevenson (21HC) and OHM business advisor Bob McDougal (19HC) with the OHM storming to a 2 shot lead. By the half way mark, Padfield Master Thatchers had clawed it back to all square as Hurricane Ian swept in but OHM were steadfast and determined with 40mph winds now cutting across the fairways, OHM securing victory on the penultimate hole 1 and...