Website Design

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Web design trends: 2018 will be about negative space and typography

Chris O'Brien December 27, 2017 0 Comments
In 2018 designers will be making greater and greater use of negative space. Particularly on mobile, speedy, light-weight pages are essential. Flashy, gimmicky design is passé and even images are becoming old-school. Everything on the page is there for one purpose: To increase conversions. Clean, simplistic page designs were already the in thing in 2017. We’re taking minimalism to a whole new...
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Grow your business with a responsive, mobile friendly, website

Jenny Howell October 27, 2017 0 Comments
Responsive websites are viewed comfortably on any device available. Users of these websites should not need to resize or pan in order to make sense of the content they view. The need for scrolling should also be reasonable for such a website. Many organisations serve entirely different versions of their websites to users using mobile devices and desktop computers. Why go responsive As many people...
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New website launched for estate agents Harvey Hudson

Chris O'Brien February 02, 2015 0 Comments
We were approached by Swindon based estate agency Harvey Hudson to create a new website with some very specific features. The main requirements were to create an easy to use website to allow prospective property buyers to locate properties matching their specific requirements with a strong visual style focusing on showcasing properties and giving an immersive view of each listing. The entire...
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Swindon Commercial Services/Public Power Solutions website rebranding

Chris O'Brien January 23, 2015 0 Comments
On the 16th January Swindon Commercial Services Ltd (SCS), a wholly owned company of Swindon Borough Council, became Public Power Solutions Ltd (PPS). The name change was to reflect their new UK-wide role as a provider of innovative power and waste solutions for local authorities and the public sector. PPS commissioned O'Brien Media to update the website we designed for them in 2014...
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Responsive design makes Harefield Archers look good on any device

Chris O'Brien December 19, 2014 0 Comments
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. The new website, based on the Drupal content management system, incorporated a gallery, blog, events calendar and social media integration that used responsive design techniques to adapt to the screen size...
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Google now labels mobile-friendly websites in search results

Chris O'Brien December 13, 2014 0 Comments
Google have recently started to indicate whether websites are optimised for mobile visitors when displaying sites on search results pages served to mobile users.  Google have been testing out different methods of indicating whether a website is mobile compatible over recent months, including icons and various text based labels (some indicating that a site was mobile compatible and some...
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New website launched for photographer Paul Green

Chris O'Brien September 05, 2014 0 Comments
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 Media to build a custom solution to satisfy his photo hosting requirements that included a professionally designed site along with in-built photo sales features to allow his photos to be watermarked but also...
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What is responsive website design (and why your website should be responsive)

Chris O'Brien August 12, 2014 0 Comments
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). Responsive v Mobile website design While mobile design advocates...
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Web design: Keep it simple (your visitors will thank you!)

Chris O'Brien July 19, 2014 0 Comments
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 to create a site that your visitors will love. You wouldn't cram retail or office space with clutter so resist the urge to cram as much information onto your website as possible.  Less is more when it comes to most of the pages on your website,...
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