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Internationalisation for Sweetbird
Long term client BeyondTheBean had an urgent job for us recently when they very quickly needed to launch a sub-set of products to a brand new American audience.
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August
Our News
Automated reporting for Oxford County Council
We were recently asked to provide some automated reporting on a jobs website advertising care jobs within Oxford, for part of a jobs website we made for Oxford County Council.
16
August
Our News
New holding page for Hotseat
It's always fun working with a new brand identity, and our latest work with media training company Hotseat was no exception.
24
July
Our News
Using AI to make a news site multilingual
One of our clients is a very big and busy news site - we’re talking up to 2.2 million visitors a day. So to make that audience even bigger, we decided to harness the power of AI to translate the many articles they publish a day.
16
July
Our News
Commission free charity ticket payments launch on activibees
We are super excited - and actually very proud - to announce that charities can now sell tickets for their events absolutely for free on activibees.com.
20
June
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New digital archive for StoriPowys
Lluniau StoriPowys is the new platform for the digital collections of Powys County Council’s Museums, Libraries and Archives.
18
June
Our News
18a working with Papersmyths
We are extremely proud to announce that Papersmyths have selected 18a to be their new web partner going forward.
04
June
Web Gossip
Convincing CPanel spam messages doing the rounds
A client just forwarded us an email they had received asking if it was spam – they were right to be wary, as it is indeed a bogus message. We often receive emails from Cpanel – the software that often sits on hosting to help you manage your website hosting account – with alerts about […]
03
June
Knowledge Base
Hosted solutions vs. bespoke development
There's a growing tendency to buy services rather than develop bespoke code. Which camp are you in?
14
May
Web Gossip
Namesco taking down sites running on old versions of PHP
If you’re a Namesco customer with a website which hasn’t had much TLC for a few years, you may have received a scary email or telephone call from them. We received an email from a lovely lady called Ros who had received such an email, and – to Namesco’s credit, a phone call too. This […]
04
May
Knowledge Base
AvailabilityCal User Guide
AvailabilityCal User Guide AvailabilityCal is a tool for managing who you share you calendar with, whilst not showing them any details of what you’re doing, just when you’re free.
29
February
Our News
18a win Netty 2024 award for Activibees.com
We are delighted to announce that 18a has been recognised for its outstanding work in the “Web Design Agency of the Year – UK” category at the 2024 Netty Awards. It was our work on Activibees.com, our inhouse “things to do” platform, that earned us this prestigious award. The Netty Awards celebrate achievements in the digital landscape, honoring […]
27
February
Technically Speaking
Generating an Effective Content Security Policy with your Laravel React App
I recently had an interesting problem to solve. I’d built a brand new author website on a shiny installation of Laravel 10, utilising its out-of-the-box frontend start kit for React. Laravel Breeze offers React scaffolding via an Inertia frontend implementation. As the website explains “Inertia allows you to build modern, single-page React and Vue applications using classic server-side routing […]