Just for Fun

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  CompetitionsandGiveaways.co.uk launches.

  6th September 2009 14:17 by lisa

  Yey! Finally a spare weekend so I can put together my designs for my new hobby site. I've had the domain and PSDs sitting around for months - and now I finally have a working site to show for it. CompetitionsandGiveaways.co.uk lists prizes and freebies up for grabs across the… Read more

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  Google Maps API geo locating

  4th September 2009 14:33 by lisa

  It was a late night last night, as Tom was keen to get his new site live. HallsHire.com is a site of Tom's that he made ages ago (2004 I think...) that was in certain need of a revamp. It was written in Perl, and whilst it worked fine, it… Read more

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  And a new home page for nbs...

  29th August 2009 14:24 by lisa

  Ok, so I couldn't leave it at new landing pages. Once the nbs bug got me again, I was hooked! So the site now has a much cooler (we think) home page, allowing us to feature competitions and features, and link to shopping and delivery guides. Plus with a section… Read more

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  New naturalbornshopper.co.uk shopping landing pages

  25th August 2009 12:07 by lisa

  It's always your own projects that get neglected when you've got lots of client work on (which we're not complaining about!) but I finally had some evenings to put together the magazine pages for naturalbornshopper.co.uk that I've been planning for months! I hope you like them! Shown below are the… Read more

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  The importance of a good meta description

  21st August 2009 04:30 by lisa

  Whilst debate still rages as to whether Google takes any notice of meta keywords anymore (keywords you put in the head of your webpage, that you and your visitors don't see, but that Google and all other search engines do), it's still vital to have strong title tags and, I… Read more

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  SecondLook photo marathon exhibition on Friday night.

  20th May 2009 08:44 by lisa

  At the weekend 18a Productions took part in the SecondLook Bristol Photo Marathon. At precisely 10.30am all 120 participants were allowed to open an envelope containing a list of photo subjects. We then had to run away and take the listed photos on a disposable camera - just 1 pic… Read more

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  Working remotely - from Italian mountains!

  18th May 2009 03:00 by lisa

  Everyone's always telling us "the great thing about your job is that you can do it from anywhere". So we thought we'd test it. And went on our first holiday for 18 months (since the birth of 18a) to a teleworking village in the mountains in Italy. As you can… Read more

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  Have a Digital Spring Clean and Clear out your Old Websites

  30th April 2009 09:11 by tom

  If you're anything like me, you'll probably have dozens or even hundreds of old websites hanging around your hard drive, gathering virtual dust, that never quite developed into the world dominating websites you first intended them to be. Maybe they bring in a few quid now and then, but lets… Read more

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  A Beginner Merchant’s Guide to Affiliate Marketing

  15th April 2009 03:39 by lisa

  Yesterday I wrote an Affiliate's Guide to Affiliate Marketing - so today I'm doing the same but from the point of view of a Merchant - a retailer or shop owner. As yesterday, there's far too much to it for one blog post, but I'll give an overview… Read more

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  Happy Birthday to the World Wide Web!

  17th March 2009 12:51 by lisa

  20 years ago, when I was already older than I care to remember, Tim Berners-Lee, and later his chum Robert Cailliau, were busy writing a proposal for an idea called "WorldWideWeb". You can read it at w3.org - a very nicely put together doc. The idea was to be able to browse large quantities of information, using… Read more