
Website Design

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!)
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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Welcome to the new look O’Brien Media website
After sporting the same look for the past 6 or so years we felt like it was time for a change. Web design techniques and the technologies that power websites have moved on significantly in the past few years and while our website had served us well over the years we took the opportunity to re-design the site and to restructure some of the content, and with over 400 pages that was no small task!...
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New website for Absolutely Shabulous, Highworth
Based in Highworth, Wiltshire, Absolutely Shabulous specialise in shabby chic furniture for your home including bespoke pieces and wanted a website to showcase their work and allow customers to find their shop and make enquiries. We created a new website using the Drupal CMS with an easy to use administrative system to allow Absolutly Shabulous to keep their product gallery and product pages...
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New website for Swindon Commercial Services Solar Park at Wroughton
Swindon Commercial Services Ltd (SCS) commissioned O'Brien Media to create a website to support the application to create a solar park at Wroughton (in conjunction with the Science Museum). The website needed to be created on a tight schedule to ensure that information relating to the planning application and review could be communicated to residents in Wroughton as quickly as possible. You...
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New E-Commerce Website for Button Touch
Craft business Button Touch needed an easy to manage website with an integrated online store to complement their presence on Twitter and Facebook. We created a solution based on the Drupal CMS and Ubercart to enable easy management of both content, products, and customer orders through a single unified management interface. Visit the Button Touch website at www.buttontouch.co.uk
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New Website for Wiltshire Caterers Matter of Taste
Having provided website maintenance services for Wiltshire catering company Matter of Taste for the past few years we were asked to design a new website that would give proprietors Mike and Jean greater flexibility in the way information such as menus were presented and allow them to manage the site themselves. We replaced the existing static website with a new website running the Drupal content...
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New website for KJS Vehicle Solutions
We were asked by KJS Vehicle Solutions to design a new website for their business, incorporating an easy to use process to add new vehicle leasing and purchase options to their site without needing any design knowledge. We set up a site that would be easy for KJS to keep up to date along with a comprehensive user guide to help them get to grips with their new website. Take a look at the new KJS...
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New website and Facebook page for ST Solicitors
ST Solicitors approached us to create a new, more flexible, website for their business to replace an existing drag-and-drop website provided through their hosting company. We worked with the team at ST Solicitors to create a new website, based on the Drupal content management system (CMS) to allow them to keep their site up-to-date with minimal effort. Following the creation of the new site we...
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New website for Susan Dunmill Millinery, Highworth
After trying a do-it-yourself drag-and-drop website creator service and finding the end result less than ideal Susan Dunmill Millinery came to us looking for a new website tailored to their needs. We created a site including: Self-managed content pages with the ability to showcase their ranges of hats and fascinators Search engine optimisation (SEO) of content Full customised documentation on...
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