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green web designers in kent

Green energy web designers in Kent

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...

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local newpaper web design editorial

Website editorial printed by local press

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...

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google ppc click fraud

Click Fraud on Google PPC, are you being scammed?

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...

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free wordpress training in kent

Covid training a Beautiful website

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...

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the open golf kent businesses in deal

Is your website ready for The Open Golf?

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...

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oast house media sponsor charity golf day

Oast House Media sponsor golf day

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

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website client lands planning application

Client secures planning permission for OHM directors

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...

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WordPress 18th birthday special offer web design in kent

Celebrating WordPress’s 18th birthday on May 27th SPECIAL OFFER

Oast House Media (based in Deal) have a special offer for the first 5 new clients to contact us for a WordPress website design. WordPress is the UKs most popular web design platform and coming of age is always worth a celebration, so here at OHM we’re making the cake, buying the party poppers and putting the champagne on ice. What will the lucky new client receive… A FREE web name FREE logo (up to 2hrs design time) 50% first years hosting FREE WordPress training FREE Google SEO report FREE web design consultancy FREE ‘company’ web pages (ie: privacy, terms, access etc) And of course a FREE bottle of champagne...

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re-skin example wordpress web design in kent

Client re-design special offer

We’ve recently offered existing clients a discounted re-design or re-skin of their older websites. As web designers we are fully aware of the changes within the web design trade that can affect our clients websites, especially the older web page designs. This is the first of the new website re-designs that replaced a 6 year old website (in this case 3rd generation design). The whole process was completed within a day so minimal impact on this high traffic site. We also took the opportunity to give the clients content and SEO (search engine optimisation) a quick health check and made some tweaks to accommodate Google’s page layout requirements. Client’s comments…...

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mercury press article about web design

Local press feature web design article by Oast House Media

As web design members of Deal and Walmer Chamber of Trade we were asked to supply a short article about web design. Peter Davies (DWCT sec) puts together business interest editorial on behalf of the chamber every month so we were honoured to get the call. The request was for local interest, Covid and web design piece (which we’ve already covered in recent post) up to 300 words. The Mercury editorial team also edited the content but basically it’s what we supplied. As media consultants it’s always nice to be asked about websites but we also cover print, advertising, logo design and more, see: www.nigelstevenson.co.uk We also completed the new...

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