Due to Environment Agency public advice and Met Office warnings being in effect for most of the UK over the next 24 to 48 hours we have activated our Customer Business Continuity Support plan to provide assistance to customers affected by adverse weather conditions over the next few days.
Painting and Decorating Contractors Ltd (PDC) needed to replace their aging Joomla! based website with something a bit easier to manage, and needed a new look to match their updated branding – we proposed a replacement site built with WordPress.
Searches starting “should I …” have grown over 65% in the past two years
If you’re a WordPress admin using a plug-in called Rich Reviews, you’ll want to uninstall it. Now. The now-defunct plug-in has a major vulnerability that allows malvertisers to infect sites running WordPress and redirect visitors to other sites.
Google has announced its coveted email client can now be used with the lights turned off, so you’ll be able to sort through a cluttered inbox in Dark Mode – making the app easier on tired eyes.
We’re please to announce that we have been accredited as a Living Wage Employer. Our Living Wage commitment will see everyone working at O’Brien Media receive a minimum hourly wage of £9.00 in the UK or £10.55 in London. Both rates are significantly higher than the government minimum for over 25s, which currently stands at £8.21 per hour.
This past week Google announced that after 15 years, they plan to make a change to the way they handle the nofollow attribute on links. If you publish sponsored content or host forums or comments on your site, consider implementing the new attributes when you are able to make a code change. If you can’t or just don’t want to, there’s no harm in that either.
