Oakweb Design

We are currently aware that email is not working correctly and are investigating. We hope to have the matter resolved shortly and will post information here as soon as we know.

In the meantime, my apologies for the inconvenience.

4.30pm - Websites are now up and running again and the server engineers are working to get the mail server and databases back up on line.

5.00pm - I have now heard from the server engineers who tell me that the Data Centre suffered a complete power failure. Websites returned at about 3.30pm and email records are being updated and they should be back online shortly.This incident was completely unforeseen and our senior management is waiting for a full report on what happened and why.

6.10pm - Email is now coming in - one or two of you may experience problems sending email but that should resolve itself fairly quickly now.

Once again, apologies for the inconvenience.

Over the course of the last few months, I have been doing courses, reading books and generally becoming obsessed with Search Engine Optimisation, to the point that I have now had a measure of success with a couple of my sites and am currently working on some client’s sites.

Having been designing sites for a number of years, mainly concentrating on how they look rather than how high up the Google ranking they will get and, it has to be said, telling my customers to shortcut the search engines by using Pay Per Click campaigns, I now know why I didn’t get into search engine optimsation before - it is incredibly time consuming and consequently can prove a little expensive. Having said that, it terms of the business it can generate it is in the long term incredibly cost effective.

Over the course of the next few posts, I will attempt to explain what I am doing and how I am doing it. Obviously, I won’t tell you everything, otherwise you won’t employ me, but suffice to say, that one of the main reasons I have set this blog up is for for search engine purposes. If you have a website, you should have a blog. It can work wonders. If you would like one setting up, let me know - it is very inexpensive. It actually doesn’t matter too much if no one ever reads it except Google and the other search engines although it could provide a valuable tool for keeping in touch with your clients and customers and it is a good way of doing an email newsletter on the cheap.

You may have recently experienced some email issues and a small amount of downtime with the servers. This is primarilly due the the company I lease the main server from being bought out by a much larger multi-national hosting company and they have been switching control to their data centre.

Having spoken to them at length, it is their intention to vastly improve the system to make websites faster and email more reliable.

I will keep you posted here as to improvements and or issues that may affect you.

My apologies for any inconvenience you hace suffered over the last couple of days.

Welcome to the Oakweb Design Blog.

There are several reasons I have put this site up. It will enable me to have a rant every now and again, but primarily, it is available to cover support issues and updates and I have done it for Search Engine Optimisation reasons, more of which you will find out about if you look in the Search Engine Optimisation category.

Much of the stuff I put on here will probably have a financial services theme to it, as I find myself designing and administering a lot of financial services sites. How long that will continue, I don’t know judging by the state of the industry at the moment, but hopefully we can all ride the storm.

My Broker Resource site - The Broker Zone is undergoing a re-design at present and should be available soon. I also have a few other projects underway, that I will enlighten you of in the course of these posts when the time arises.