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The O'Brien Media Insider

Welcome to the O’Brien Media Insider – Your Go-To for Digital Insights and Business Know-How

The O’Brien Media Insider is your behind-the-scenes look at all things digital, creative, and business-focused. From web design trends and SEO tips to small business insights and local Swindon highlights, our blog covers a bit of everything – just like we do at O’Brien Media.

Whether you’re a client, collaborator, or curious visitor, this is the place to catch up on the latest from our team, explore practical advice, and get inspired to grow your digital presence. Dive in and see what’s new!
Code and Development
Chris O'Brien

Webmail is getting a fresh new mobile-friendly look and some great new features

In the early hours of Saturday 17th June we'll be performing an upgrade to our Webmail system. We're upgrading to the latest version of Roundcube Webmail, which powers our system, and have been working over the past month to ensure that our address book and task list enhancements will work correctly after the upgrade. 

Following a final round of testing we're ready to go live with a fresh new look, including full support for smartphones and tablets so that you can easily access Webmail while you're away from your desk.

We've also added some additional features including a set of sidebar widgets that enable you to view local weather information and add RSS feeds from popular news websites, we hope these features will make Webmail more useful for users.

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Chris O'Brien 15th June 2017 2:22 pm
Branding & Marketing
Chris O'Brien

Live Chat app tawk.to can increase engagement

If you're looking for a great way to engage with your website visitors then tawk.to should be at the top of your list. tawk.to is a 100% FREE live chat app that lets you monitor and chat with visitors on your website.

  • Gain valuable insight when you monitor your website visitors in real time as they browse your website.
  • Stay connected anywhere, be in touch with your customers from your computer, or your smartphone.
  • Live Chat is convenient for your customers, helping them through pinch points and as a result helping you generate better customer support and achieve higher conversions.
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Chris O'Brien 26th May 2017 2:42 pm
Branding & Marketing
Jenny Howell

Blogging helps you and your brand be seen as experts

When your business has a blog, you’ll have the opportunity to provide more in-depth information on your range of products and services; information that typically wouldn't appear on the main pages of your website.

For example, too much content surrounding a certain product or service can make your business website look awkward and messy. A blog, however, gives you the ideal opportunity to post detailed material and expand on the information you make available about your products and services.

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Jenny Howell 3rd May 2017 5:04 am
WooCommerce
Chris O'Brien

New selection of WordPress and WooCommerce video tutorials now available

We've updated our online knowledge base and support pages with a new selection WordPress video tutorial clips – take a look over in the new video tutorials section of our website to boost your WordPress and WooCommerce skills!

Covering WordPress basics like editing text content, the difference between WordPress posts and pages (a very common question!) through to adding image galleries to WordPress posts – we're planning to cover all of the common tasks we're asked about by WordPress users and will be adding more video tutorials over the coming days, weeks and months.

View all video tutorials now…

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Chris O'Brien 27th April 2017 3:38 pm
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WordPress
Chris O'Brien

Time for an update – WordPress 4.7.4 released

This release contains 47 maintenance fixes and enhancements, chief among them a fix has been provided to address an incompatibility between the upcoming Chrome version and the visual editor, inconsistencies in media handling, and further improvements to the REST API. For a full list of changes, consult the release notes and the list of changes over on the WordPress website.

If you need a hand we can upgrade your WordPress website for you with our cost effective WordPress upgrade service. Contact us for more details.

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Chris O'Brien 20th April 2017 7:50 pm