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New Website for the Red Lion Inn at Axford

Chris O'Brien August 21, 2012 0 Comments
The Red Lion Inn is a 16th century inn and restaurant near Marlborough in a stunning setting next to the River Kennet. The existing website for the Red Lion had been in place for a few years and was starting to look dated, we were asked to create a new website with a clean and modern feel that would incorporate new photography and updated content to help with SEO. A new online advertising...
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QR Codes – Conversations with a Taxi Driver

Chris O'Brien August 20, 2012 0 Comments
Sometimes inspiration comes from unexpected sources, and this time that source was a taxi driver. I'd been thinking about writing a blog post about QR Codes (those little black and white square barcodes that seem to be popping up everywhere recently) and after chatting for 10 minutes with a taxi driver last night on my way home I got an "outside view" of how QR codes are...
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Fresh New Website for Lalbagh Indian Cuisine in Swindon

Chris O'Brien August 19, 2012 0 Comments
The Lalbagh Indian Cuisine in Swindon commissioned a new re-designed website that would better represent their restaurant. A new colour scheme to match the restaurants' interior was selected and O'Brien Media worked with the restaurant manager to take updated photographs for the Website to portray the comfortable atmosphere of the venue.
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EU Cookie Law Means Changes for Websites

Chris O'Brien May 11, 2012 0 Comments
On May 26th 2012 the new EU "cookie law" will come into effect in the UK. This law will require businesses to significantly change how their websites function as well as bringing about changes to the online shopping experiences of internet users throughout Europe. The new law applies to all organisations that operate a website in the EU, this includes organisations that aren't based in the EU...
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Could Direct Debit payments help your business?

Chris O'Brien March 12, 2012 0 Comments
We've recently integrated GoCardless as a payment solution into our customer management and billing system which has given us a great foundation to integrate GoCardless into your website or to enable you to 'request' payments from your customer for invoices issued in 'offline' software such as your accounting package. GoCardless offers your business the opportunity to accept Direct Debit...
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Newsletter style leaflet for South Swindon Labour Party

Chris O'Brien February 27, 2012 0 Comments
Newsletter style leaflet design for South Swindon Labour party. If you represent a CLP, are a member of the PLP, an MP or Councillor or even a PPC and want a website, newsletter or leaflet designed please get in touch for preferential rates from a designer who is a member of the Labour Party (the advice is free!)! We also offer a discounted print service to CLP's - email [email protected]...
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Place name data for UK Towns, Cities and Villages with Counties

Chris O'Brien November 22, 2011 0 Comments
This is the source data we use for the address auto complete fields in our internal CRM system. It's based on data from various sources and cleansed as far as possible to remove duplicates.  It's ideal to be used with jQuery auto complete fields and we use it pulled from a mySQL database table. There are currently 48,423 records in the attached csv file. This CSV file is offered on an...
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Say no to noreply In Your Customer Emails

Chris O'Brien November 02, 2011 0 Comments
Some businesses can be forgiven for using email addresses that do not reach a person in their email communications with customers, but these are few and far between and usually have a very good reason.  For example, banks are actually protecting you from yourself when they don't let you reply to emails they send.  Email is pretty insecure and you really wouldn’t want to be...
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