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.

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. 

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.

New digital archive for StoriPowys

Lluniau StoriPowys is the new platform for the digital collections of Powys County Council’s Museums, Libraries and Archives.

18a working with Papersmyths

We are extremely proud to announce that Papersmyths have selected 18a to be their new web partner going forward.

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 […]

Hosted solutions vs. bespoke development

There's a growing tendency to buy services rather than develop bespoke code. Which camp are you in?

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

If your WordPress website looks broken, it could be because of this.

WordPress is the incredibly popular blogging-come-full-website platform that powers over 835 million websites* in 2024. It’s functionality is extended by plugins, and one such very popular plugin is Advanced Custom Fields, which is used on over 2,000,000 sites across the world. ACF announced a while ago that they were making a change to how the […]