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Bionic Reading, helping dyslexic disability access

Many years ago we revealed to our clients a new disability access font aimed at helping folk with dyslexia [see: ‘dyslexiefont‘ September 2015]. Now there’s another method to help struggling readers and it’s called ‘Bionic Reading‘. As with Dyslexiefont, Bionic Reading is a method of helping the eye to identify and remember words using bold segments. This especially helps with longer documents, speeding up the reading process. As the brain learns the protocol your brain starts to recognise the bold part of the word and works the rest out for itself. For example, the last paragraph above would visual look like this using the Bionic Reading method: As with Dyslexiefont,...

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Welcome to Kent – “DJ Kentastic” Intermix2

Long term client and top London DJ “Kentastic” (Ken) has up sticks and moved to Dover, Kent. With a high Google profile in London, OHM have just re-optimised the WordPress web pages for the East Kent area inc: Dover, Deal and Sandwich. With  the day job and house moving duties taking precedence at the moment, the optimsation will concentrate on the channel towns but Folkestone, Canterbury, Herne Bay and Whitstable will be added later this summer (2022) If you are looking for a top DJ for your party, wedding or kids event, see: intermix2.co.uk Find out more about out Google SEO optimisation services

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Protect your web content – disable right click

One of the big problems with website content (text and mages) is theft! It is all too easy to copy and paste from a web page to a document on your computer. For most this is not a malicious action, school project, personal message, social media for example. But in a few cases copying content from web pages is for commercial gain. OHM director Nigel Stevenson is also listed on Google as a Media Consultant using his website www.nigelstevenson.co.uk as a platform to showcase his media knowledge. Most of the content in his web pages are extracts from his book “On your marks” – a designers guide. ISBN 978-0-9926886-0-8. The...

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root home renovations logo design

New logo design for new business

Logo’s coming in thick and fast as we tweak our Google SEO keywords. Roots Home Renovation business owner saved himself a shed load of time and money by delivering a very good brief for their new logo. Embracing renewable vibes with property care, the new design can be used for all media inc: web, print, signage and workwear. When designing a logo it is important to consider future use which may also include different colour backgrounds such as workwear and vehicles. Print and web are usually white backgrounds but vehicles and clothing can be dark substraights so an alternative design is always worth considering. Likewise, a ‘mono’ version could be...

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OHM help raise £8000 for local charity

Oast House Media MD and keen golfer Nigel Stevenson joined a group of local Deal based businesses raise money for The Martha Trust at Walmer and Kingsdown Golf Club. Martha Trust based in Hacklinge, Nr Deal, look after young people and adults over the age of 18. They are a home for life for residents, a local care home that offers respite and much needed support for families. On the day and after the raffles, auction, spot prizes and entry fees Martha Trust Fundraising & Events Officer Kerry Banks (BEM) confirmed a total of £8,000 was raised for this local respite care charity. Alas OHM did not pick up any...

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FREE website updates for OHM clients

As part of our web hosting, Oast House Media have always offered a FREE updates service to all web design clients using our servers. We have been aware that some updates my be required in the life of a website. Apart from our ‘behind the scenes’ updates to servers, WordPress and plug-ins, we also carry out minor updates for clients FREE of charge.. An example of this is Teynham Construction based in Sittingbourne who have a legal/contractual requirement to update their document downloads section. This web page contains PDF downloads for insurance, public liability, waste management etc certificates. OHM upload the new certificates and add to their download page. It’s...

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Web name reseller making it not so easily

When Oast House Media was incorporated in 2004 we were print and web designers with the trend towards website design. Using our wealth of print management experience we knew we needed to partner with some reliable, good value UK web service suppliers. One such company came highly recommended: www.easily.co.uk The Oast House Media portfolio of web names were all purchased through easily.co.uk. At the time they were very efficient, good value and most importantly accessible to discuss any issues arising. Having found a great service we started to recommend easily.co.uk to all our new web design clients who, based on our feedback, commenced their web design process with an easily.co.uk...

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blackberry discontinued in kent

Bye Bye Blackberry

We all see mobile technology as a recent innovation but a market leader has already disappeared – Blackberry! Did you own a Blackberry mobile? If you’re of a certain age the answer is almost certainly yes. Physical keyboard, easy to use, aesthetically pleasing to the eye, compact, Blackberry was the market leader for many years. But what happened? Then came the iPhone Full touch screen and a raft of apps, the iPhone smashed Blackberry off the park. Blackberry were slow to react and took years to match the levels of tech and design the iPhones offered. Steve Jobs legendary presentations ridiculed his competitor, and they had no answer. The lesson...

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How important is SEO for your website?

Here at Oast House Media we build SEO into all of our web pages as part of the price, but… What is SEO? SEO means Search Engine Optimisation, the process of optimising a web page to mazimise it’s impact on search engine results pages (SERPs). There are many areas within a website that Google identifies and actively seeks to cache and then use the data as a search element. Imagine your website is a jigsaw and each piece of your jigsaw is an SEO element. Some are easy to find (like the jigsaw corners or edges). Some are much harder to locate like the centre or large colour area jigsaw...

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PayPal scam caller – Woo Commerce upgrade

An e-commerce shop client contacted OHM this week asking us to discuss a Woo-Commerce (WordPress shop plug-in) upgrade with a PayPal representative. We took the call from an Irish sounding male who calmly explained PayPal were upgrading security which required a plug-in installation for Woo-Commerce. But we wasn’t going to fall for that! During the call we Googled the phone number “who is calling me” [phone number] which uncovered a scam caller impersonating PayPal. During the call we confronted the gentleman with this information but he said this is not uncommon, in fact he said it was good to check and offered to send an email authenticating his credentials. Said...

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