Year: 2021

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Why we love Elementor!

Camilo Pires March 29, 2021 0 Comments
Here at O’Brien Media, we use Elementor to help build our websites. The ease of use allows users to make their own changes to their website, which is something that is really important to us!  This blog post will go through some of the reasons (there is a lot!) why we think Elementor is awesome and why you should too! Drag and Drop Editor With Elementor, the great visual Drag and Drop Editor...
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BigCommerce announce new Transactional Email Templates

Camilo Pires March 25, 2021 0 Comments
As a Partner, we love to share new features that our friends over at BigCommerce have come up with. This blog post will talk about BigCommerce’s new transactional email templates. These updates replace the old email templates and allow for new features and the ability to customise the templates. What’s new with the templates? Full Handlebars Support Merchants and developers now have greater...
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How to Rsync between two Linux servers

Background rsync is powerful and easy to use utility to keep files in sync between two servers. The principal way of rsync‘s command structure  is to push files from point A to point B. A Basic Example of an rsync Command rsync -vzru /home/location_A/ [email protected]:/home/location_B/ In the command above, files from location_A on a local disk and server...
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New ‘Coronavirus Restart Grant’ announced

Camilo Pires March 22, 2021 0 Comments
As we start to have some restrictions lifted and with businesses starting to reopen, things are finally starting to look up! The government has announced the 'Coronavirus Restart Grant' to help support businesses through these times so that they can grow and recover from the effects of the pandemic. This blog post will give you an overview of these new measures. What is it? This scheme supports...
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No more personalised ad tracking on Chrome, say Google

Camilo Pires March 18, 2021 0 Comments
Google has announced that it will no longer be using third-party cookies when tracking individual users across the web on their Chrome browser. They have said that digital advertising practices had to “evolve”. This article will give you an overview of what this means for you. What difference will this make to you? Third-party cookies allow for you to be tracked and ‘followed’ across the...
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Budget 2021: what it means for your business

Camilo Pires March 15, 2021 0 Comments
On Wednesday 3rd March, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced his new annual budget. This blog post will summarise the key points and new changes to schemes in relation to businesses. Recovery Loan Scheme This is a new scheme that ensures that businesses can continue to access any loans and types of finance after existing COVID-19 loan schemes close. Businesses of any size can use the scheme. Finance...
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