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!
On Monday 27th October Google published revised guidelines to ask for site owners to modify their robots.txt configuration to allow Google to access additional files that are used to display your website to visitors (these are called CSS and Javascript files) and previously weren't needed for Google to correctly index your website.
We created a new, easy to navigate website for Swindon Commercial Services, based on the Open Source Drupal content management system that allowed staff at to keep their new site up to date with nothing more than a web browser and an internet connection.
Data quality is a key component of any business. At its heart, data allows a business to build great and lasting relationships with customers – both internal and external.
On October 14th 2014 Google released details on the POODLE attack, a padding oracle attack that targets CBC-mode ciphers in the 15 year old SSLv3 security protocol. The vulnerability allows an active
Photographer Paul Green wanted to move away from a proprietary photo hosting solution that didn’t offer much flexibility when it came to presenting his photographs, he commissioned O’Brien
Just as every now and then you need to update and upgrade the software on your computer, your website also needs upgrades to the software that powers it to keep your website operating at its best.
Responsive website design is an approach to designing websites that focuses on creating sites that provide an optimal browsing experience – viewing content and navigating the website with minimal panning, scrolling and resizing – across a wide range of devices (from mobile phones and tablets to desktop computers and laptops).
The great thing about responsive design is that it can easily be added to an existing website with minimal fuss and is probably one of the most cost effective changes you could make to your website. Having a responsive website has the prospect of boosting sales by making your site more appealing and usable for visitors using their mobile phones.
Colour plays a big part in how we react to every aspect of our environment, from the space we work in to the products we buy. Taking colour into account when designing your business' branding, product packaging, promotional materials, and even your office or retail space can have a massive effect on the impact your business has on you and your customers.
When it comes to designing a website, experience (and a lot of research, feedback and data analysis), has taught us to stick to the “keep it simple” rule
Over the past couple of weeks we've received calls and emails from a few customers about an email they have received from a "company" called IGN Domains asking them to confirm they are the registered owner of their domain name and informing them that, in all cases, someone is trying to register the same name on "7 domain extensions". The email also invited the customer to get in touch with IGN Domains within 7 days to prevent the domain names being registered to another person or business.
