Technical Dreams

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  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

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  New invoicing system a success

  10th April 2010 03:00 by lisa

  As we do our invoicing at the beginning of each month for the previous month, this week has been the first chance I've had to play with our new invoicing system. After a year or so battling with the rubbish system our bank wanted us to use, we've now built… Read more

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  RSS making machine!

  3rd November 2009 03:00 by lisa

  I'm loving rssa.at at the moment! We're kitting all our clients out with free RSS feeds, which can then be fed into Twitter or a Facebook Fan Page. For muchbetteradventures.com it's great, because I've been able to make them feeds for all the different areas of their site in just… Read more

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  MuchBetterAdventures.com launches in Beta.

  16th October 2009 07:12 by lisa

  This has been a big project for 18a, and we're really thrilled for Alex and Ed from Much Better Travel Ltd that their site has gone live. I'm also pleased to be able to unveil the design at last, as we really love the photography we sourced with the guys… 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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  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

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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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  Google launch their new browser - Google Chrome

  2nd September 2008 05:27 by lisa

  So the inevitable has happened - Google have built their first browser, set to take on Microsoft and leave Internet Explorer as a distant memory.News of today's launch was 'leaked' to Google Blog-oscoped (the blog by Philipp Lenssen - which is currently down, probably due to having been visited just… Read more

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  Hunt for the Perfect CMS

  15th August 2008 05:13 by tom

  Probably the most commonly requested requirement for a website is the ability for the client to add and edit pages. It sounds such a simple requirement, but in reality it's really tricky to get the balance right between functionality, flexibility and the level of technical skills required. There are literally… Read more

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  How to Let your Users Create Desktop Shortcuts to your Website

  12th August 2008 04:25 by tom

  Bookmarks are very handy for remembering sites you like, but wouldn't it be really neat to let your users create a proper icon on their desktop that links directly through to your website? Or even a link in the Quick Launch bar right next to the start button. Using Gears… Read more