Just for Fun

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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 It seems the site was originally made with software (I think Dreamweaver, but I'm a hand-coded kinda… Read more

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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