How to get different shipping rates on your OpenCart shop.

If you ship your products globally you may find you need to provide different prices for different countries. A common set up in the UK is; a flat rate shipping fee to when shipping to addresses in the UK and then a higher rate for Europe and then an even…

How to get rid of vertical scrollbars in a Facebook fan page application

More and more companies are getting customised Facebook pages, like ours! But when you create a basic Facebook fan page application you might find that the lovely design you've created gets horrible vertical scroll bars added along the right hand side. Here's a quick 'howto' to explain the steps you…

How to make someone an admin of your Facebook page

If you're an organisation with a Facebook Fan Page, a time is likely to come where you need someone else to be able to administer your page. This is particularly the case in companies, when the person who created the page goes on holiday or is out of the office.It's very…

Facebook Terms and Conditions – Fan pages

For those who know how, Facebook certainly is very easy to use and user friendly. However it can be confusing and a bit tricky knowing that they continuously make updates and changes to the site. Facebook Fan pages are great. They can be regularly updated and clear for those who…

Facebook rolls out new privacy settings.

Yet again Facebook have made some more changes to their privacy settings. They are continuing to roll out new measures to increase privacy to users. The latest, is the ability for users to have greater control over who can and can’t see their status updates. Many people are seeing this as Facebook’s…

We had a LoveSpice taste test lunch

For lunch this week, we decided to try out a recipe using our LoveSpice chilli oil! We had LoveSpice Garlicy Red Pesto Brushetta, a recipe that can be found on their website and WOW was it tasty!! It was so good...we all decided to have seconds! We would now seriously recommend that…

A new look for The Inside Man CSCart website.

The Inside Man has had a make-over. Our client came to us with a CSCart shop that needed a revamp so we did a redesign with CSCart in mind.It was an interesting experience as we tend not to use CSCart. One challenge that we came across was working with Cybertill, as…

A new website for laptopkit.co.uk

LapTopKit came to us because they needed a new website that they could update easily and that looked good. So we moved them away from their old OSCommerce site and built them a new shop using OpenCart.With this website our client is able to add new products, as well as…

A WP e-Commerce Guide

Below you can find instructions on to how to use certain aspects of WP e-Commerce.Adding ProductsAdding products is now easier on WP e-Commerce. Once signed in simply select Products from the menu on the left hand side and then click Add New. When adding a product, start off by adding a…

Bad luck for Somerset in the enterprise zone locations

Here at 18a we were excited a few months ago when Bristol's Temple Quarter was announced as one of the Goverment's new Enterprise Zones.After Bristol was named in March as being a spot for one of the new zones, the exact location of 173 acres near Temple Meads was announced…

Seafields Fostering has gone live!

We are really happy to announce that the new and improved Seafields Fostering website has gone live!Seafields is a website about fostering that gives you all the information you need to know. This website has been recreated with a fresh and up-to-date look and clear contact forms so you are…

Does Social Media Have an Effect on Society?

Over the past week we have seen riots all over the country. Most of the rioting has been contained to the London area, where some horrible scenes have unfolded. But how did this all happen? How did people know to riot, and where? It would appear that today’s social media…