November 17 Newsletter
More web design news for Kent based clients
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Awaydays Travel based in Faversham have been web design clients for over five years. Owner Brian Booth requested a WordPress website re-design having read about OHM’s special offer in our monthly newsletter. The old site worked perfectly well and was managed by Brian and the team using 3rd party software and PDF creation, the new WordPress website however offered not only a mobile friendly solution to comply with Googles ‘responsive’ web page requirement but a blog post system that was ideal for the holiday offers the Awaydays Travel team generate every month. “the new WordPress blog posting system is much easier than the old process” Brian Booth In this case,...
Martin Gorse Wood Gun Club have been OHM clients for many years and this is the 3rd regeneration of their club website. OHM have a non-profit business discount policy as we know the cash in any club is raised by hard working volunteers, so this re-design like the others in the past received a healthy discount. Chris Reed, Martin Gorse Wood Gun Clubs webmaster required the ability to update all pages and posts within the website. The WordPress editing platform gives the client this ability and more with in this case an image gallery. Chris can now add from his own PC photos of events that can be seen immediately...
DJ Ken based in Hertfordshire has been a client for many years. It’s always nice to work with website design clients outside of our normal catchment area Kent and despite never meeting we have a very good working relationship. This helps when working with clients not in the area especially when we start the FREE WordPress training sessions. Ken’s old static page website design had served him well and the client was able to do minor updates himself. The new WordPress website has a more advanced client content management area allowing advanced editing as well as the basic stuff like adding images, hyperlinks, text editing etc. The new website also...
Over the past two years we’ve been converting old html static page websites to WordPress web pages Why? In April 2015 Google changed it’s delivery policy on results pages, it clearly stated, having identified that over 50% of its results were viewed on mobile devices, that all websites needed to be ‘mobile friendly‘ or as we call it in the trade – ‘responsive’. Google set up a checking service: search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly to help developers and designers to evaluate existing pages. Here at OHM we decided to design all new websites using WordPress and for good reason: Google likes WordPress and the 2 companies work closely together SEO is built into all...
Goldsack Blinds based in Canterbury have been web clients for many years with their ‘Awnings’ website but owner Andy Goldsack wanted to put both horses into the same stable and combine the two core areas of his business. Goldsack Blinds are one of Kent’s business success stories with a large client base from Kent and beyond so it was a great privilege for OHM to add the ‘blinds’ section to our portfolio. The new WordPress website design has it’s own built in SEO pack, gallery plug-in and active contact form, all editable by the client see website: goldsackblinds.co.uk
Summer top tips Traditionally some businesses go a bit quiet over the summer months, time to reflect? Here are some recommendations for your website marketing: Is your website mobile friendly? We are still doing some great offers for our older (design) clients still using static pages. google now actively penalises non-mobile friendly web pages on its results pages. Are you mobile friendly? click here to find out Do you refresh content at least once per month? Google likes refreshed content and the best way to do this is through regular news blogs on your web pages. Our new WordPress websites make this easy and once you get going, only takes...
Directors Nigel Stevenson and Nick Finch, Finch Landscapes go back nearly 50 years. Having created Nicks original logo when he first set up his garden maintenance business in the 80’s, it was a real pleasure to get the call and re-design the logo and create an new WordPress website design. Over the years Finch Landscapes have expanded to be one of East Kent’s largest landscaping companies with blue chip clients like Shepherd Neame and TV chef Paul Holywood working on projects in Kent and overseas. Because Nick and his team are good at what they do 100% of their past work has been word of mouth but Nick realises he...
Nothing unusual for Peter Oxendale to go live, as an accomplished musician, record producer, arranger, conductor and programmer, he is now considered to be one of the world’s leading forensic musicologists. Peter contacted OHM last year requesting a new website but the business was very busy and had to be put on hold working around Peter’s legal commitments. Son Jamie has been our main point of contact, a well organised member of the team, the brief was typically very accurate, clear and easy to understand. The original ‘Peter Oxendale’ logo needed to be adapted for website use which was a pleasure to re format in both positive and negative options....
Oast House Media is based in Great Mongeham, just outside Deal in Kent so we were thrilled to be asked to design a new website for our local Bed and Breakfast hotel: The Old Rectory. It’s been a long time since we could walk to the client but The Old Rectory is a well run establishment so the walk was well worth it. Totally restored to its former glory this family run business now has a WordPress website to preview it’s beautiful rooms and quality food. The website can also showcase the local area and special offers. All the images were supplied and as we’ve said many times before, websites...