Just for Fun

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  You know you've made it when you're the Google logo.

  4th November 2009 04:53 by lisa

  It's not every day one of our clients is the front page of Google! The first page of search results, yes, but being the search box itself is pretty special! Oscars, Baftas - you see them all when you go to make a website at Aardman HQ in Bristol. But today… Read more

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  Snowflake Champions!

  30th October 2009 04:46 by lisa

  We were (or I was!) very excited on Wednesday night to get the Affiliate Window newsletter announcing that we'd won the Christmas Challenge in week 1. The task was to create the best snowflake... the winning entry is below and I'm £50 the richer for it! Thanks Affiliate Window! You… Read more

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  Create an RSS feed quickly and easily with rssa.at - new system launches

  26th October 2009 16:48 by lisa

  I've just realised that in all the excitement of last week, I didn't blog about the launch of our brand new exciting system! rssa (really simply syndicate anything) lets anyone create an RSS feed of their news in 2 quick steps. The system's completely free, and as long as your… Read more

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  Twitter API - job done in 30 minutes!

  22nd October 2009 04:48 by lisa

  Here at 18a we're getting very excited about our new web service - it's been under wraps for a little while but it's very nearly ready to launch! And one of the final stages was for Tom to integrate the Twitter API. He sat down to do it this morning… Read more

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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