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!
Hot on the heels of the "Year in review" website statistics email we sent out in January to clients who use our website hosting and analytics platform for their websites that summarised website performance during 2014 we're pleased to launch our new monthly website performance reports.
We were approached by Swindon based estate agency Harvey Hudson to create a new website with some very specific features.
PPS commissioned O'Brien Media to update the website we designed for them in 2014 to reflect their new name and branding and to develop new functionality to collect feedback from residents and stakeholders on the development of solar farm developments.
At O'Brien Media we're firm believers in the importance of having a blog for your business and in this article we're going to run through our top tips for getting your business blog off the ground. You can either create your new blog on a free cloud based service such as Wordpress, Tumblr or Drupal Gardens or add a blog to your existing website (we can help you with that!).
Another popular use of SMS messaging is to keep customers and staff up to date with information on closures and other information in the event of bad weather. With open rates of over 95% and an average time to open of under 6 seconds SMS messaging is a great method to communication important information to your contacts.
On 10 June 2014, Nominet (the organisation that manages UK domain names) made .uk domain names available for the first time – alongside .co.uk, .org.uk, .me.uk and so on. If you want to register the shorter .uk version of your UK current domain, get in touch and we'll register the domain name for you (subject to your right to the domain name).
A business data dashboard is an easy to read, one page summary of business information such as sales figures, contact centre performance, or customer growth to name a few. There
We've been busy putting the finishing touches to a lot of web development projects recently, including a new site incorporating responsive design elements developed for Harefield Archers.
Over the past few months we've been seeing an ever increasing amount of "automated" and botnet generated referrer spam coming into websites hosted on our hosting platform and onto sites that we manage on other hosting services on behalf of our customers. Here we'll explain why automated traffic is a problem and the steps we're taking to combat the issue for our customers.
Google have recently started to indicate whether websites are optimised for mobile visitors when displaying sites on search results pages served to mobile users after testing out different methods of indicating whether a website is mobile compatible over recent months.
