How Brexit could affect your online business: .eu domain name owners

If you have a .eu domain name your ownership of it may be affected by Brexit, scheduled for October 31st, you may want to make sure you take the action needed to protect your online business and .eu domain. If you HAVE a European postal address: Update your domain details so that your European address is registered. This way, you will be able to keep your .eu domain and secure it from being...
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How long does it take for a website to show up in Google or Bing search results

When you launch a website, you want everyone to see it—and not just your family members, best friends, and significant other. You could be showcasing your services, selling the best product in the world, or have the coolest website design ever, but it all accounts for nothing if no one knows your website even exists. So, how do you do it? These days, when the Internet has become more ubiquitous...
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World Mental Health Day 2019 – Mental health: Chris’ Story

My name is Chris and I'm the Senior Developer, and Creative Director, at O'Brien Media - most of our clients, past and present have come into contact with me at one point or another but many will be surprised to know that my life is complicated by, at times, poor mental health. I want to share my experience of living with mental health conditions to coincide with World Mental Health Day 2019 in...
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Changes to support and clarification on responsibilities for website hosting clients

We’re making some changes to how we handle support enquiries, and would like to clarify what is supported. One issue per case We are making a change to the number of separate issues that can be answered in a single case. Please only raise one issue per case. This is to help decrease resolution time and make cases simpler for our support team. We have seen an increasing number of cases where...
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Instagram is killing-off its Following tab

Instagram is removing its Following tab, a feature which became better known as a stalking tool rather than its purpose to aid with new account discovery. Instagram says that its Explore tab is the go-to place to find new people, places and hashtags to follow. Meanwhile, the Following tab is now only used by a small number of people on a regular basis. Combined, those factors were the key reasons...
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Features you can look forward to include: Anti-virus and anti-malwareSupreme protection against known and unknown threats to safeguard your systems against slowdowns and infections in real-time.Dual-layered FirewallBlocks access to hijack attempts and features intrusion detection to stop malicious software from entering your system.Web Filtering Protectyour employees by blocking access to...
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Thanks for getting social with O’Brien Media!

Visit our website Hi there, and thanks for following us on social media, we really appreciate it! We regularly post information on the services we offer, the projects we've worked on, and various happenings in our offices (including posts about our resident pets, Neutrino and Pringle. We hope you enjoy our posts! Best wishes, Dylan Fernandez Head of Business Development (and the person who...
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Do you want to recruit staff via your website and ditch agency fees?

Whether it's a single role, or recruiting staff for a new office, if you've got a WordPress website we can get your WordPress website set up so that you can recruit staff without having to pay listing or agency fees - just a single license fee for the WordPress plugin and until the end of October (2019) we'll install the plugin for free if you're an O'Brien Media website design or website hosting...
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Business Continuity Support for customers affected by adverse weather conditions (06/10/19 to 18/10/19)

Due to Environment Agency public advice and Met Office warnings being in effect for parts of the UK over the next 24 to 48 hours we have activated our Customer Business Continuity Support (CBCS) plan to provide assistance to customers affected by adverse weather conditions over the next few days. For those not aware of this plan, this means that if you are an O'Brien Media customer for website...
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Wordpress, SEO and All its Benefits

10 facts on the impact of WordPress

We live in a world of content, masses, and masses of content. Every day, people are writing blog posts, creating and posting infographics, sharing case studies and customer testimonials, and launching businesses. Wordpress website development is at an all-time high. One of the most popular ways to get your content (whatever it may be) in front of an audience is to create a website. It can serve...
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