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Intermix2 DJ Ken wordpress website re-design

DJ Ken gets a new website

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...

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WordPress Tips – Not turning off ‘allow comments’!

We get a few calls each month from WordPress website design clients about their Dashboard settings and how to get the most out of their news feeds. Apart from good quality text content, internal links to other pages and at least one really nice photo, the common error is…. Not turning off the ‘allow comments’ action. WordPress historically is a blogging tool, therefore there are a few elements left over from that functionality that we do not use today, a bit like an appendix operation if you don’t remove fix can be painful! A client called this week complaining about over 1000 ‘comments’ in their post listings which is going to...

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website design for mobile devices

Upgrade to WordPress Google friendly web pages

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...

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summer 2017 new website

Summer jobs to do on your website

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...

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Finch landscapes new website

New website design for an old friend

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...

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Peter Oxendale new website goes live

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....

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the old rectory in great mongeham in deal kent website design

Great Mongeham B and B website goes live

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...

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The Strand Wine Company website in Deal and Sandwich Kent

Off License website redesign goes live

Popular ‘offy’ The Stand based in Sandwich and Walmer in Kent have been long term web clients. Having read my many News Letters, owners Tess and Glen asked for a consultation, where else? down the pub! It was a really interesting meeting because being in the trade they know not only the brands and types of drink, but what is trending: ie Jägerbombs out, Gin is in! When you talk to the experts you can begin to understand the trade and what makes it work well for you. The old website was about five years old so well overdue a makeover and a great opportunity to refresh content. Surprisingly i...

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richards taxi dover website design home page

New WordPress website design for Dover Taxi company

We took over a 3rd party WordPress website design for Richards Taxis Dover last year so the client was already familiar with the WordPress editing platform and how WordPress works, but the design was old and a bit tired so the client asked us to re-design the web pages. To complete we needed to find new images plus the client was purchasing new vehicles so we needed to convert images from a phone camera. We sourced free images from our online library, but we also contacted Dover DC marketing who also supplied copyright free imagery. There was also an issue with the logo as we didn’t have an original file...

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east kent video website design

East Kent based wedding video company – new website design

The wedding trades in Kent are a great bunch of guys to design websites for, they call them ‘the wedding mafia’ because they work in packs, hunting down that elusive prey – the loving couple!   Why are they a great bunch to work for? They know exactly what they want and on the whole, supply top quality imagery, videos and copy. They are also on very tight budgets because this is one of the business sectors that’s shrinking, that’s ideal for us at OHM with our best price policy for website design in Kent. Chris Hewitt, owner of Kent Wedding Video is no exception to the rules offering couples...

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