Million £££ Ideas

At 18a we're big fans of the BBC series Dragons Den, and I don't think you can be an online entrepreneur without always keeping one eye open for the 'next big thing'.

With this in mind we created the Million £££ Ideas category. While we don't expect everything we post in this category to make a million pounds, we live in the hope that something will, or at the very least inspire someone else in the process...

Website planning - muchbetteradventures.com

10th August 2009 04:58 by lisa

We're always telling our clients that planning a website before the build begins is vital. And never has this been more true than with the planning of muchbetteradventures.com. The guys behind the site, Alex and Ed, have loads of great ideas and so it's been a detailed process to wire… Read more
UK Property Club site launches

25th June 2009 05:25 by lisa

We were very excited to set ukpropertyclub.co.uk live - we built the site a while ago, but the company decided to pause the launch until a more suitable time in the economic climate. So now it's live - and if you're looking to co-invest, co-buy, or co-let a property, hop over… Read more
Pet shopping section for mypettrade.co.uk

21st May 2009 04:37 by lisa

Tom's just finished adding the great new features to the mypettrade.co.uk shopping section, so you can now choose from over 22,000 products for your pet shopping. Cron Jobs mean the feeds are updated from top pet retailers every night, and mypettrade can choose "featured products" for the scroller on the… Read more
On a screen near you...

6th April 2009 09:08 by lisa

We were very excited today to see one of our latest designs on BBC 2's Working Lunch. The great new website Stuff2Send.com which we've been working on since it's launch, adding new features and giving it a fresh look, was featured as part of Money Saving Monday. The feature clearly… Read more
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
Retailers who currently don't submit feeds to comparison engines may be missing out!

14th November 2008 12:56 by tom

According to an online shopping survey conducted by e-consultancy, retailers who currently don't submit feeds to comparison engines may be missing out on the growth of online shopping. With 56% of consumers claiming their online spending will not be effected by the 'credit crunch' and 62% claiming they are now… Read more
18a in the Guardian!

10th October 2008 11:36 by lisa

Jemima Kiss, a blogger for The Guardian, interviewed Tom a little while ago (and requested some photos - eek!) about our site PriceCheck.at. Pricecheck.at is a quick and easy to use tool for checking the price of items when you are out and about on your mobile phone. So next… Read more
Pricecheck.at - The Mobile Price Checking Service

13th May 2008 08:48 by tom

We've touched on mobile web development in the past couple of posts. It's an exciting new area which offers a huge potential for growth as more people get online with their mobile phones. Well rather than just talk about it, we thought we'd give it a go, and Pricecheck.at is… Read more
Social Bookmark Shopping.. What!?

25th February 2008 11:49 by tom

Hands up who's heard of social bookmarking. I expect most people reading this article will have. The concept has been around for an Internet 'eternity' now. I thought everyone in the Facebook generation would be familiar with the idea, but I was speaking to a friend of mine yesterday, happily… Read more
Stuck for Inspiration?

12th February 2008 11:08 by tom

The Internet is just so big, sometimes it's hard to know where to start when you are looking for inspiration or new ideas. Google is an obvious place, but only if you know what you're looking for. It's a great tool for locating information, but what if you just want… Read more