The O’Brien Media Digital Insider Blog

WooCommerce 3.3 now available

WooCommerce 3.3 has today been released. WooCommerce 3.3 has been in development since October, and is now ready for use on production websites.

Chris O'Brien 30th January 2018 10:39 pm

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News

OBrien Media awarded Most Innovative Creative Design Agency 2018

We are delighted to have won Most Innovative Creative Design Agency in South West England in the LUX Designer Awards 2018 for our online and offline design and marketing projects during 2017.

Chris O'Brien 27th January 2018 9:22 am

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Website Design

Web design trends: 2018 will be about negative space and typography

In 2018 designers will be making greater and greater use of negative space. Particularly on mobile, speedy, light-weight pages are essential. Flashy, gimmicky design is passé and even images are becoming old-school. Everything on the page is there for one purpose: To increase conversions.

Chris O'Brien 27th December 2017 1:12 pm

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Security

Keep your WordPress or Drupal website up-to-date to stay safe from hackers

WordPress & Drupal sites are prime targets for hackers. These hackers don't want to bring you down because they dislike you, in fact most of these hacks originate from bots crawling the web, looking for WordPress and Drupal sites that are vulnerable. If the bots identify your site as a WordPress or Drupal site, they will then set up shop and start looking for vulnerabilities.

Unfortunately, most people don't take this topic seriously until after their site or sites have been hacked. It is only then that they realize that they may lose days of work just trying to regain control over their sites. More importantly, if Google identifies your site as being compromised, they will down grade your site in the search results

Chris O'Brien 26th November 2017 6:41 pm

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Website Design

Grow your business with a responsive, mobile friendly, website

Responsive websites are viewed comfortably on any device available. Users of these websites should not need to resize or pan in order to make sense of the content they view. The need for scrolling should also be reasonable for such a website. Many organisations serve entirely different versions of their websites to users using mobile devices and desktop computers.

As many people now view web pages on devices other than desktop computers and on a variety of screen sizes, you can increase the number of people who are aware of your business and develop a good impression of it. One reason for the increase in popularity of alternative devices is that they are very convenient.

Jenny Howell 27th October 2017 12:01 am

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Find out the latest news from Google

Important Google changes that could affect your business

On October 27th, a new version of Google Chrome will be released that will prominently label any site without an SSL Certificate as “non-secure” in the browser bar.

You will be affected by this change if your website contains input fields (such as a contact form), asks for passwords or any other sensitive data, or is visited in incognito browsing mode.

That means it’s now more important than ever to secure your website with SSL if you want to avoid scaring customers away.

Get in touch today to find out about our SSL enabled hosting services.

Chris O'Brien 22nd October 2017 3:01 pm