Just for Fun

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  muchbetter already; a long day in the 18a office.

  8th October 2009 07:33 by lisa

  We had the guys from Much Better Travel around yesterday to go through every last detail of their new adventure sports holiday site. When I say "long day", I mean they arrived at 11am and left at 11.30pm. That's a long day for anyone! Especially poor Tom who was programming… Read more

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  Calling all QuickBooks Pro 2008 invoicing system users

  6th October 2009 09:31 by lisa

  This software has it's fair share of bugs (I keep thinking I'll ask Tom to code us up a different invoicing system instead, but our accounts dept have spent a while getting all our clients details and templates etc in there now), but by far the most annoying one is… Read more

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  Brand damage online - and they probably don't even know about it.

  4th October 2009 14:08 by lisa

  Just had a missed call from an 0845 number... so a spot of Googling later and it ends up it was from a rather well known double glazing company. What actually came up in Google was a discussion about how rude and pushy people who call from that number are,… Read more

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  Client reminder HTML email for ChaletinSlovenia.com

  2nd October 2009 08:46 by lisa

  Last year we made a website and booking system for ChaletinSlovenia.com, and this year, to encourage their previous guests to go back to the site, they're going to send out a pretty HTML email using 18amail.co.uk. Their designers (hotrod creations) designed the mail shot after we advised them on what… Read more

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  Can we already get too much "on demand"?

  2nd October 2009 08:36 by lisa

  Tom just had a call from BT, trying to sell him BT Vision - their TV service where you buy a box for £15 and then for a small amount a month (the prices all sounded OK to be honest) you can get lots of channels, and as well the… Read more

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  MuchBetterAdventures.com nearly ready for launch.... including new banner pallette

  2nd October 2009 03:35 by lisa

  We're getting very excited here at 18a Towers, as the new adventure sports travel website muchbetteradventures.com is nearly ready to go live! We met with Alex and Ed on Tuesday to run through the first working version of the site and now we're just finishing off some of the wealth… Read more

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  Example of a good email newsletter by firebox.

  2nd October 2009 03:24 by lisa

  For a while now I've thought Firebox newsletters have been good, with eye catching designs that perform well, such as the one below. Even if you're using an email client that can't display the background image, the centre area is still very smart. But I was particularly impressed by their… Read more

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  18a Orchard bears fruit!

  21st September 2009 07:59 by lisa

  I really thought Tom's Dad, who very kindly let us plant the 18a Orchard on his farm, was playing a joke on me by sticking an apple on to one of our tiny little saplings when I walked across the field to check out the orchard the other day. But… Read more

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  Update your browser

  17th September 2009 14:42 by lisa

  Hurrah! We are all behind this campaign from updateyourbrowser.net - not only are old browsers slow, they just don't let you experience the cool stuff the web has to offer now a days! And the longer web developers and designers have to support rubbish IE6 and others, the longer jobs… Read more

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  VivienMallock.co.uk - updates to sculptor's website

  15th September 2009 04:38 by lisa

  I had seen the remarkable work of Vivien Mallock a few months ago, and it didn't cross my mind that we would get a call asking us to host and maintain her site. It seems the site was originally made with software (I think Dreamweaver, but I'm a hand-coded kinda… Read more