We created a new, easy to navigate website for Swindon Commercial Services, based on the Open Source Drupal content management system that allowed staff at to keep their new site up to date with nothing more than a web browser and an internet connection. Find out more over in our portfolio!
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Data quality is a key component of any business. At its heart, data allows a business to build great and lasting relationships with customers – both internal and external. Building a consistent and holistic view of customers is not easy, however. It’s important to realise the importance of data granularity. For example, storing a customers name in discrete data fields (title, first name,...
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On October 14th 2014 Google released details on the POODLE attack, a padding oracle attack that targets CBC-mode ciphers in the 15 year old SSLv3 security protocol. The vulnerability allows an active "man-in-the-middle" attacker to decrypt content exchanged via an SSLv3 connection. While secure connections primarily use TLS (the successor to SSL), most users were vulnerable because web...
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Photographer Paul Green wanted to move away from a proprietary photo hosting solution that didn't offer much flexibility when it came to presenting his photographs, he commissioned O'Brien Media to build a custom solution to satisfy his photo hosting requirements that included a professionally designed site along with in-built photo sales features to allow his photos to be watermarked but also...
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Just as every now and then you need to update and upgrade the software on your computer, your website also needs upgrades to the software that powers it to keep your website operating at its best. On the 6th August a patch for a security vulnerability that had been discovered in all recent versions of popular blogging and content management platforms Drupal and WordPress was released. These...
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Responsive website design is an approach to designing websites that focuses on creating sites that provide an optimal browsing experience - viewing content and navigating the website with minimal panning, scrolling and resizing - across a wide range of devices (from mobile phones and tablets to desktop computers and laptops). Responsive v Mobile website design While mobile design advocates...
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Below you can find copies of current contracts, terms and conditions, and policies that govern the use of our services and cover how we provide our services to you. Covid-19 - You can find out about our current response on Covid-19 on our Covid-19 Precautions page This page contains links to current corporate policies, agreements for the products and services available through O'Brien Media, and...
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Colour plays a big part in how we react to every aspect of our environment, from the space we work in to the products we buy. Taking colour into account when designing your business' branding, product packaging, promotional materials, and even your office or retail space can have a massive effect on the impact your business has on you and your customers. Choosing the right colour for your...
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When it comes to designing a website, experience (and a lot of research, feedback and data analysis), has taught us to stick to the "keep it simple" rule to create a site that your visitors will love. You wouldn't cram retail or office space with clutter so resist the urge to cram as much information onto your website as possible. Less is more when it comes to most of the pages on your website,...
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Over the past couple of weeks we've received calls and emails from a few customers about an email they have received from a "company" called IGN Domains asking them to confirm they are the registered owner of their domain name and informing them that, in all cases, someone is trying to register the same name on "7 domain extensions". The email also invited the customer to get in touch with IGN...
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