One of the most common reasons a website feels slow is oversized images. A photo straight from your phone or camera can easily be 4,000 pixels wide and several megabytes in size, but the space it actually fills on your website might only be 800 pixels across. The browser still has to download the full-size file, though, and that takes time — especially on a mobile connection. Image Resizer is a...
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Looking for how much getting a website designed cost in 2025? Check out our 2025 website design pricing guide post. If you're a small business owner thinking about getting a new website, one of your first questions is probably going to be about cost. It's a fair question, and the answer isn't always straightforward. Web design pricing in the UK varies enormously, and in 2026 there are more...
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Last year, we shared a behind-the-scenes look at how O'Brien Media has grown through web design business acquisitions. Since then, the landscape has shifted quite a bit, and we wanted to revisit the topic with a fresh perspective for 2026. If you're a freelance web designer or small agency owner thinking about stepping back from client work, this post is for you. And if you're one of our existing...
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If your website's search rankings have shifted over the past couple of weeks, there's a very good reason for that. Google has confirmed that its March 2026 core update finished rolling out on 8 April, having started on 27 March. That's a 12-day rollout, comfortably within Google's typical two-week window and quicker than the December 2025 update which took 18 days to complete. Google described it...
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The team adjust to working from home during Covid Lockdown
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Building Online Stores and Shops for Small Business Success with WooCommerce Whether it's a brand new WooCommerce store, support for your existing store or migrating from other ecommerce solutions to WooCommerce, we would love to work with you! We've been developing beautiful and high performing WooCommerce ecommerce websites for over 15 years! Get in touch today or find out more about our...
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