Finding the right website designer in Kent for your business can be a daunting task, your search may not reveal the best website designer for your business either, so who is the best website designer in Kent? Here are some check points that will help.
Occasionally we are commissioned to design (or re-design) company logos for Kent businesses, in fact this month (October 2021) we’ve created 3 designs. 2 were part of website design projects, but the Shelly’s Tea Rooms was a logo re-design only project. The usual problem with logos are the original design has been lost or not supplied, especially with established businesses, for example: the original is not digital (old style paper artwork) the master file was not supplied to the customer (they only received the non-editable export files like JPG/PNG/GIF/TIFF/PDF files) the files have been lost the owner purchased the business and the previous owner failed to supply the master file...
Here at Oast House Media we’ve become increasingly aware of business owners using Wix for their website design, in fact we lost a client recently to the ‘bright light’ that Wix shine on our TV adverts every day. Wix offer a fantastic low cost web solution and have poured $millions into their infrastructure making it easy to build your own web design, they also offer an array of professionally designed templates and build in some slick on page affects to make your web page stand out – all good so far. But why are Wix customers contacting OHM for search engine optimisation? Over the past few years we’ve had several...
Like many business owners the recent energy price scare has instigated a price check. It’s not good news for a lot of us as gas and electric prices eat into profit margins. But some good news, web design is a very green media compared with others like print and signage. Our office energy consumption is less than £100 a year! We try to meet online to save travel costs and all training is now completed online since Covid 19 requires non-contact business relationships. We still meet some clients face to face and MD Nigel Stevenson will always insist on meeting new website design clients personally. Our Data Centre servers also...
Deal and Walmer Chamber of Trade were so impressed with our first editorial for the local press page, they asked us for another. This article is about websites representing your business and the affect a cheap design has on your sales potential. Here’s the content… Your website is your business card Do you remember the motorway service station business card printers? For a few pence you could quickly print a business card to take to your meeting. The problem was they looked cheap and didn’t represent your business in the right light. The new business card of today is your website but the same dilemma exists for business owners. It...
You will not be surprised to know that Click Fraud is rife on the internet with scam sites set up to bleed a legitimate advertisers budget dry. What may shock you is the amount of Click Fraud or ‘invalid clicks’ on Google’s PPC (pay-per-click) ad platform. Where are Google’s PPC ads? If you complete a popular search on Google your SERPs (search engine results page) will have 10 natural listings (desktop view) sandwiched between Google PPC ads at the top and bottom of the page. In this example Jet2 are managing a PPC campaign that includes ‘cheap flights to Tenerife‘. Now we know only a small percentage of browsers actually...
Since the lock-down last year we’ve continued to build and re-design websites remotely for our clients. The free WordPress training has to date been completed ‘peer-to-peer’ using dedicated software. This however dosen’t always work for everyone and due to other restrictions we completed our first on-site training session since 2019 at The Beautiful Homes showrooms in Deal, Kent. Media Manager Ffion Thomas-Friend has taken over the reins at Beautiful Homes with all web, social media and online marketing so a full training session on WordPress, social media integration and Google SEO best practice was requested by the owners David and Sonia. Ffion is now fully up to speed and ready...
If you didn’t know already, The Open Golf Championship is back in Kent at Royal St George’s, Sandwich 15th to 18th July 2021. With an estimated daily attendance of 130,000 plus a commercial tented area bigger than Eastry, there’s a lot of interest for local businesses. The obvious winners are any of the service industries like accommodation, transport, food etc but there’s also a support requirement for the 1000s of international business that came here in readiness weeks ago. One of our suppliers have an employee who takes every July off to work to attend The Open. He’s proved to be a real asset to his part time employee CBS...
Managing Director Nigel Stevenson attended a charity golf day at Broome Park 25th June 21, the event organised by OHM web design client St Stephen’s Golf Society was in aid of the ‘Wear Blue for Ethan MPS charity. Oast House Media sponsored the 18th hole and raffle prizes and presented the winner Tyler Venables with his £50 prize. Over £1200 was raised on the day. See event web page
Whenever we can we try and use our web design clients for products and services; over the years we’ve hired tools, building work, even had our hair cut by local clients to show our support their their businesses. A year ago we decided to look into converting a double garage here at Farm Cottage into a detached annex. Our architectural design clients Ian Barber Associates had just completed a re-design of their WordPress website so it was an easy choice for us to ask Ian and his team to commence the planning process with Dover District Council. Ian handled the entire process with the calm and patience you need at...
