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!
We’re always trying out new ways to speed up websites to improve user experience and help to reduce waiting times for visitors (and improve conversion and reduce visitor
The latest version of WordPress, version 4.6 (named “Pepper” in honor of jazz saxophonist Park Frederick “Pepper” Adams III), is now available to download via the WordPress website at wordpress.org. There are some exciting new features in WordPress 4.6 to help you to focus on the important parts of running your website along with enhancements to simplify some of the the day-to-day administrative tasks you perform on your website.
We can upgrade your WordPress website for you with our cost effective WordPress upgrade service. Contact us for more details or if you're an O'Brien Media website hosting customer you can view your Drupal version information and request an upgrade via Client Connect, just log in and access the "My products" section for more information.
Many of our customers already experience the benefits of Microsoft's Office 365 cloud based solution, combined with the just-released Office 2016 apps means there’s never been a better time to get Microsoft Office 365 E5, the most comprehensive Office 365 offering.
Version updates are included in your subscription and new features are rolled out to Office 365 customers regularly.
Microsoft have listened to customer feedback, and have delivered a new sync client for OneDrive for Business designed to make OneDrive for Business for Office 365 users faster and more reliable.
This update provides a much improved sync experience so that you always have the latest version of your files accessible from any device.
After Google announced that it had started considering HTTPS as a metric when deciding the pagerank of a given website (giving higher priority to SSL secured websites over their non-SSL counterparts) it was only a matter of time before they took the next logical step and started further penalising websites without SSL (HTTPS) support.
Drupal 7.50, the latest release in the Drupal 7 series as of 8th July 2016, is now available for installation on websites running the 7 series of Drupal. Drupal 7.50 contains a variety of new features, performance improvements, security-related enhancements, and bug fixes – the 7.50 release itself includes no security fixes (although if you haven't installed previous updates the 7.50 release will include previous security fixes).
Below is a great function (created by Wes over on Stack Overflow) that can be used to automatically correct the image orientation when uploading images (the main culprit for weird orientation related glitches being iOS based devices) – simple call the correctImageOrientation() function after uploading the image and voilla the rotation/orientation of the image is corrected!
Cloud based services offer businesses the opportunity to subscribe to the latest software technology without having to pay out every time you need to update your software or move to a new platform.
Microsoft are juggernauts in the software industry and are making strikes in the cloud based software marketplace. With Office 365, you and your staff can have Microsoft's world renowned office suite right at your fingertips anytime, anywhere.
Over the past few weeks we've noticed an increasing number of visits to websites at use our website analytics service, along with visitors to websites that use Google Analytics, showing up with a referring website (referrer) of "com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox" – while this may seem a bit cryptic it's not spam or other suspicious traffic and is in fact shown for visitors coming to your website from Google's Android Search App.
The way businesses are run in modern times means that communication is the centerpiece of every well run and successful business. The ability to communicate easily and effectively could mean the difference between success and failure.
A hosted Exchange solution is ideal for growing businesses to support their staff in their jobs. It gives you access to instant email, shared calendars, documents and contact address book.
As a business owner or director, you’re always under pressure to keep costs down and productivity up. Streamline your business and staff with cost effective tools to improve efficiency and free up additional time to go out and secure new business.
