Choosing file names for your website docs and images

How not to choose inappropriate or embarrassing file names for images and documents.

Review your User Experience – online and off

When you build a website, you might plan and test your user's experience (UX) to make sure it's smooth - but how often do you go back and re-check it?

The 18a orchard in full bloom

Over a decade ago we planted a small fruit orchard at Tom's parents house, planting a tree for every website we built in our first year. Now, the trees are grown and bearing fruit every year - albeit they look a little dry this year. It certainly seems a lifetime ago that we…

The beginner’s guide to Google Authenticator

Google Authenticator helps you add 2FA to your website, without the ongoing cost of text messages

Tom shortlisted for Agri-tech Innovator of the Year 2020

We are very excited to be able to announce that 18a's CTO Tom Freeman has been shortlisted for the British Farming Awards' Agri-tech Innovator of the Year, 2020! As always with these things, there was a couple of weeks between us being told and it hitting the press so we've…

WordPress and AWS Elastic Beanstalk – getting set up – Part 2

Elastic Beanstalk has some great features but upgrading a WordPress is a little more involved than normal.

The new normal. 5 ideas for improved user security

With increasing security governance and the bad guys not giving up any time soon, do we need to take basic user security to a new level?

A creative example of taking a break from Instagram

Taking a break from Instagram over the summer holidays? Need a bit of a digital detox?

SSL certificates can only be 1 year long from September 2020

Your website will be marked as insecure or untrusted if you don't have the right dates on your certificate.

Do you really need a new website?

There are so many reasons to get a new website - but do you need one?

Failed Laravel 7 login returning me to home page with no errors

I recently found an issue with a Laravel 7 site I was working on where if I logged in and it failed, I was being redirected back to the home page with no error message.

Learning Hub launches for Kurosbio.com

Kuros Biosciences are a team of experts in spinal fusion and so asked us to add a Learning Hub to their website. We launched their new WordPress site for them earlier this year, and they were now ready to add the next phase of development - a learning hub so…