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  • Bristol restaurants coming up trumps!

    25th November 2010 03:00 by lisa

    We're always mentioning the latest places we've eaten in Bristol to friends and family outside the city - and increasingly these little gems are getting the recognition they deserve!

    After achieving Bristol's first Michelin Star, Casamia in Westbury-on-Trym have just been crowned Britain's best restaurant by Gordon Ramsey! Brothers Jonray… Read more

  • Day and Night design feature on LoveGloucesterRoad.org.uk

    10th November 2010 03:00 by lisa

    This is really quite simple compared to the rest of the coding we do here at 18a Towers, but it's still fun!

    If you visit LoveGloucesterRoad.org.uk - a website we've made for free to help promote our local area - then, depending on whether you visit it in the day… Read more

  • Nasty spam email offering tax rebate

    5th October 2010 12:00 by lisa

    Just a quick note to watch out for emails like this one I received supposedly from HMRC this morning.

    Hovering over the links in the email shows me it's actually trying to send me to recivetaxrefund .xf .cz - quite different to hmrc.gov.uk! 

    It also doesn't have a "to" address -… Read more

  • 18a.co The quicker way to visit us

    31st August 2010 03:00 by tom

    When we heard that you could now buy .co domains we were quick to snap up 18a.co as we thought it sounded pretty cool and we loved the idea of even shorter email addresses.

    Ok we're not Columbian, but .com domains aren't just used by American companies either, and the… Read more

  • Twitter customer service from 123-reg

    10th August 2010 03:00 by lisa

    Yesterday I tweeted that I wasn't very happy with 123-reg auto-renewing a .com domain name for 2 years without my say so - and I just received a phone call from their customer services team to see if they could help resolve the issue.

    It wasn't the auto-renewal I had… Read more

  • 18a and the top creative companies in the South West

    30th July 2010 03:00 by lisa

    I've just been checking out the results for the South West Top 100 Creative Companies, which is ranked according to fees earned/turnover. Which means that we're not on it, because we're not big enough (or don't charge enough ;) to beat the big boys. But still, it was great to… Read more

  • Trailer for The Social Network Movie

    27th July 2010 03:00 by lisa

    They're right - you don't make 500 million friends without making a few enemies along the way too.

    If you haven't seen the trailer for the new film about the creation of Facebook, check it out below.

    It looks better than I thought it would, but I find some of… Read more

  • 18a meet Facebook Developer Matt Kelly

    22nd July 2010 03:00 by lisa

    We admit it. We're geeks. Which meant it was very exciting to meet Facebook Developer Matt Kelly (left in the pic, with our Technical Director Tom Freeman on the right) in San Francisco as part of our 18a Road Trip the other day. He was a lovely guy and it… Read more

  • Second Sainsbury's website goes live.

    28th May 2010 03:00 by lisa

    Back in January we launched a website for Sainsbury's new store in Ashton Gate, and so we were delighted to be asked us to build another for the potential store in Wadebridge. It's always nice to get repeat business :)

    Sainsburys-Wadebridge.co.uk went live today and features a custom built CMS and… Read more

  • The Times and The Sunday Times to charge for online content

    26th March 2010 03:00 by tom

    I've just read on utalkmarketing that the Times and The Sunday Times will start charging for access to it's content from June 2010.

    This is truly a big moment for the entire traditional publishing industry and journalism as a whole. But will it work?

    Personally while I might be happy… Read more