Outatime Media & Web Design

31/05/2025

Did you know there was a special Web Designer Day? Apparently it's today!

We love tinkering with websites and coming up with great ideas, and there's lots of exciting projects to share very soon! 😀

Give a big thanks to any web designers you know, and take some time to appreciate the wide array of websites you can use every day thanks to their hard work.

21/11/2024

It’s been a while since we’ve posted on here, but that’s because we’re busy behind the scenes working on some web projects. Hopefully we’ll have news to share that’s quite exciting soon, so watch this space! 🤞😉

30/03/2024

Throwback to 22 years ago when I launched my first ever website on Yahoo Geocities. Who'd have thought what it would lead to all these years later, with at least 12 websites under our belt and at least 2 more on the horizon.

Happy Birthday to us! 🥳

11/03/2024

We're very proud to see Retro Charts go from strength to strength especially with being nominated in the Radio Guild awards for Best Small Online Radio Station.

Our fingers are tightly crossed for a good outcome when the winners are revealed next month!

A huge thank you to all our listeners who voted for us in the 2024 Radio Guild Awards.
Retro Charts Radio is now in the final 5 and industry professionals will vote for the winner to be announced in April.


https://retrochartsradio.co.uk/

25/01/2024

Just before Christmas we completed the 4th and final website project of 2023. We were approached in September to completely revamp the website for Wedding Wheels of Northampton, a local business that provides vintage and modern cars for weddings and other special events.

We are really pleased with the outcome as the new site is bright and fresh and shows off the cars with some fantastic photography (although not ours), easy navigation, improved responsiveness, quicker loading and ways to contact the team. Since it went live, it's been getting a good response and higher Google rankings due to improved SEO. We're looking forward to continuing to assist with the site during the coming year.

Ben said: "Simon at Outatime Media has been amazing! We asked him to review our (homemade) website and it was brilliant to receive his recommendations and to hear how he could transform it in to something more user friendly for us, and for our customers. We were delighted with the final product too! We would definitely recommend Simon as someone who can take something that can be quite confusing for non-website folk, and translate things into something that is easy to understand for all of us!"

Visit the website at https://weddingwheelsnorthampton.co.uk

We're already lining up projects for 2024, however if you're in need of a website redesign or just want to have a chat for advice and tips or networking, then don't hesistate to get in touch. We'd love to help!

16/01/2024

A very happy 1st birthday to Retro Charts Radio which we successfully launched the website for back in January 2023. 🥳

It was a very exciting project to be part of and since then the ground-breaking station has taken off with lots of listeners every week from around the world, messages from celebrities, mentions in national media and a whole lot more.

We continue to work with the team and looking forward to see what 2024 has in store...🤩

If you fancy giving the online radio station a listen then go to https://retrochartsradio.co.uk

30/11/2023

Here's a great little article about Retro Charts Radio, a project we're very proud to be part of. It's great to see a website we launched at the beginning of the year have lots of good feedback and success.

If you want to listen to the station head to the website at: https://retrochartsradio.co.uk

https://www.beat-magazine.co.uk/2023/has-auntie-beeb-had-her-day/

Retro Charts Radio plays a historic archive of UK Top 40 hits from the start of the music charts back in November 1952, right up to the last chart of 1999.

02/09/2023

Earlier in the week we finally completed a revamp of our main website. This was actually started well over a year ago, but then life and other projects got in the way so was left abandoned for a long while, but then finally found some time to get it all up to date.

There's a few more tweaks still to do, but we're pretty happy with how it's turned out. Have a look and see all the creative projects we've got under our belt.

If you have an idea for a digital project that needs bringing to life that we can help with, please do get in touch!

Visit:

I am a professional digital media creator and radio broadcaster, specialising in web design, video production, photography, new technology and trained in all aspects of the arts.

17/06/2023

We launched another new website recently. The 2nd of 4 projects we're working on this year. This one's a bit more of a personal project.

Brookside was a soap that ran on Channel 4 for 21 years between 1982-2003 and earlier this year had a lot of interest due to streaming service STV player started uploading episodes from the beginning.

There doesn't seem to be a dedicated fan site for the soap online any more, so we decided to take up the mantle and launch We Love Brookside. It's still work in progress with more content to be added over the coming months, but you can visit it now at:

www.welovebrookside.co.uk

30/05/2023

Great interview this morning with Bernie Keith roughly about 1 hour 20 mins in talking about Retro Charts Radio, a project that we're so proud to be involved with!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0fmz9kg

16/01/2023

It's been a while since we've posted anything on here, but we've been working hard on a number of projects lately.

The first of which officially launched today - Retro Charts Radio!

The online radio station plays randomly every UK Top 40 hit from 1952-1999 through an online stream. Our involvement and brief was to build a simple, smart and clean website to provide the stream, some statistics about the songs, forms, and a thank you page with a strong visual element including the colours red, black and yellow.

The project took about 3 months from start to finish and officially launched today - January 16th 2023.

Andy said: "I very much appreciate all your help Simon, the website is great!"

Visit the website at: https://retrochartsradio.co.uk

09/11/2022

Even though we don't post much on this page. We are very busy behind the scenes working on lots of projects.

Currently there's 3 different very exciting website projects on the go, the first of which will be launching in the next week or two.

Any ideas on what it might be based on the image below? 🤔