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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...

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Do you own your business logo?

A logo forms the basis of your business design. Virtually every published aspect of your business will have your logo in it, ie: website, social media, emails business cards, flyers, brochures workwear, signage, posters adverts, promo material So where is your logo right now? Hopefully you have it files in a safe place in it’s original design format with some export files you can send to contractors for any of the listed uses above More likely, you have a friendly designer who looks after it for you but – what if he disappears? ceases trading? falls out with you? Do you own the copyright? When you completed the design did...

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Sight Call opticians logo design

New logo design is a sight for saw eyes

Long term client Sight Call requested a quick, low cost logo for their new venture in Brixton, London. Using the clients excellent and very specific brief we were able to turn-around the new design in a few hours. Logo design process Using our Adobe design tools, we created a vector format logo so the client can re-create the design for any future use and size. This type of file (Ai – Adobe Illustrator) is universally accepted within the media trades. see our ‘holistic design‘ page. An Ai file is based on lines and fills held together within ‘nodes’. Each ‘node’ has an attribute allowing the design to curve or corner....

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bray markets logo design in adobe illustrator

London market agency new logo design

As we continue our website design services for Kent businesses, a rare venture into London generated yet another logo design. Bray Markets asked Oast House Media to complete a new website replacing their below standard Wix attempt. The existing logo was low quality and badly pixilated so on agreement price and updated logo look OHM created a new logo that would not only serve for web use but also all other media including: web and social media signage and large format printing promo material and work wear The new logo uses ‘vector’ design process in Adobe Illustrator therefore can be scaled to any size without loss of quality. The design...

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Query Deserves Freshness (QDF) puts OHM blog top of Google

2 days after publishing this news blog [oasthousemedia.co.uk/web-browser-trends-have-changed – 16-8-22] it went top of Google out of 2.22 million results, this was probably a Google reaction to a popular ‘news’ search on an active website. We’ve blogged about this Google search algorithm in the past, it’s call ‘Query Deserves Freshness (QDF)’, a Google re-ranking function that ranks popular subjects (ie: news) in order of ‘freshness’. What this means is if you use WordPress’s powerful post publishing feature you can put your web pages top of Google even if the competition is corporate and the results in millions. Unfortunately it’s a brief moment of fame that will be replaced by the...

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Google Reverse Image Searches

Did you know you can search for images using an image? ‘Google Images’ is a search engine that analyses an uploaded image using color, orientation, pixel patterns and size.  It was created by Google in 2001 due to a search spike for pictures of the green Versace dress worn by Jennifer Lopez in February 2000 [full story]. Further development of the search algorithm enabled Google to reduce exposure to offensive imagery and add value to search depth including illegal image use. Here at Oast House Media we are very careful not to compromise copyright and IP law, sourcing our images from copyright free (creative commons) libraries How to use the...

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browser search

Web browser trends have changed

What web browser do you use? Firstly, what is a web browser, “A web browser (also referred to as an Internet browser or simply a browser) is application software for accessing the World Wide Web” (Wiki) [see how this news/blog beat 2.22 million other web pages to number 1 on Google! – more] Most PCs are supplied with the Microsoft web browser called Internet Explorer (IE) which 10 years ago was the most popular access app for the internet, but trends have massively changed. As you can see from the world map, in 2012 Bill Gates had managed to saturate the PC market with his IE browser, you’ll also notice...

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Summer Newsletter 2022

Here at Oast House Media we’ve had a long term policy of keeping all our clients informed. The door is always open as the saying goes. We’ve been sending newsletter to clients for over 10 years with a range of topics from web design to logo design, scams to special offers, competitions to company news and just about anything that may be of interest to a business owner. Originally we emailed the business owner directly from our email accounts, but for the past 5 years we’ve used MailChimp. MailChimp is free to use but we opted for the pro version so we could receive detailed stats about activity especially posts...

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