News and Events

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  We've moved! New premises for 18a Productions

  1st July 2009 07:29 by lisa

  Exciting times for 18a Productions, as we've just moved from 18a Gloucester Road (sob! a special place in our hearts!) to our new offices near the top of White Ladies Road, Bristol. Our new phone number is: 01179 680989. Email addresses and our web address stay the same. Below is… 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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  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

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  Designing Cross Browser.

  20th March 2009 12:06 by lisa

  Neat, well put together code can often avoid major browser compatibility issues. But can still be the odd few problems - especially when a design calls for a certain amount of words on one line etc etc. There are some web services out there they check compatibility for you by… Read more

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  StreetChance supported by Barclays Spaces for Sports new CMS goes live.

  17th March 2009 13:08 by lisa

  We were very pleased last year to be asked to build a microsite for StreetChance, a partnership between the English Cricket Board/Chance to shine, Barclays Spaces for Sports, Cricket for Change, Positive Futures and the Metropolitan Police Service. Now, as the initiative to engage young people across London boroughs with cricket… Read more

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  Noel Gallagher and Wired Strings news sent from 18amail.co.uk

  13th March 2009 06:16 by lisa

  Buy The Sunday Times this weekend! I've just built and sent an email in 18amail telling Wired Strings fans about a CD that they have worked on with Noel Gallagher in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust, that's free this weekend with The Sunday Times.  The Album, entitled ‘The Dreams We Have As Children’,… Read more

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  BBC World Record dreams dashed!

  12th March 2009 07:24 by lisa

  Tom and I were delighted to be invited by the BBC to witness a World Record Attempt last night in Bristol. Kev F Sutherland entertained us for 1 hour with 470+ jokes, both written by himself and submitted by the public. As pointed out by the Official Guiness World Record Adjudicator, the… Read more

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  18amail soft launch - send and monitor HTML emails to your mailing list.

  11th February 2009 18:52 by lisa

  We are extremely excited to annouce the soft-launch of 18amail.co.uk. After many clients asked us for an affordable system which would allow them to create and manage mailing lists, as well as send and schedule HTML emails, we created a system to give any one all the functionality they could dream… Read more

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  A tree for every website.

  11th February 2009 18:44 by lisa

  We promised to plant a tree for every website we make. So at the end of 2008, we got busy planting our own little 18a Orchard in a beautiful part of Worcestershire. We planted a selection of Apple trees (inc. Bramleys and Cox Orange Pippen), some Cherry trees, and -… Read more

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  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