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Web Gossip
How to help elderly relatives keep intouch with video calls
During this COVID-19 chaos, get your grandparents a smartphone so they can keep in touch.
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Mar '20
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Mar '20
Web Gossip
Keeping motivated when the schools close: class room stand ups
Have a daily video call with your child's class mates so they can stay connected to school.
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Mar '20
Knowledge Base
Is your website displaying an insecure message TODAY?
It is estimated around 3,000,000 websites will be effected today by a bug in Let's Encrypt meaning that SSL certificates need to be cancelled and new ones installed.
02
Mar '20
Technically Speaking
Am I the last person to know why Google Images was invented?
It's been 20 years (somehow) since Jennifer Lopez inspired Google Image search.
27
Feb '20
Our News
“We need a good search”: strategies we’ve employed to give clients more powerful search tools and granular control
When we're planning a new website for someone, one of the requirements we often hear in the brief is that "it needs to have a good search". When I heard that line from a client last week, it ended up that their current keyword search was linked to a 3rd…
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Feb '20
Web Gossip
Stripe roll out changes to refund fees for old customers
Stripe are needing to make changes to how you're charged when you issue a refund to your customers.
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Feb '20
Our News
Large site migrations for Cosy Club and The Lounges
We are delighted to welcome Cosy Club and The Lounges to the 18a fold this year as they've asked us to help them with their websites. Last year we designed and built their corporate site - Loungers - with a 2 week turn and so are delighted to be able to work with 2 of…
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Feb '20
Our News
Internet Safety Day 2020: Our top tips for staying safe online
February 11th is Safer Internet Day 2020, with the UK Safer Internet Centre celebrating the role the Internet plays in our daily lives whilst reminding us all to be careful how we use it. So here at 18a we thought we’d bestow some of our own personal top tips for staying…
03
Feb '20
Our News
Introducing the CropFarmer Partner Program
CropFarmer is the award winning budgetting tool that we've made to help farmers keep an eye on their bottom line. The judges of the 2019 AgriDen Innovation competition loved CropFarmer.app and were very excited about what it can do to help small farmers all over the world. We recently…
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Feb '20
Our News
Minimal Viable Product: How low can you go?
If you're a start up looking to test the waters in your market, then you need to think hard about your Minimal Viable Product. A Minimal Viable Product - or MVP - is a term to describe how you can get an idea to market with as little work, and…
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Jan '20
Our News
CropFarmer awarded prize in AgriTech innovation competition
It was all a bit of a whirlwind but we are incredibly proud to announce that CropFarmer was announced as the runner up in Agri Innovation Den 2019! We (Tom and Lisa) planned our presentation and went along to the Dragon's Den style pitch at agritech inncubation centre Farm 491, aware we…
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Jan '20
Our News
How will Google do away with third party cookies?
The infamous "cookies" we all see a message about everytime we visit a website are small snippets of text that are stored on your browser in order to tell websites something about an action you've taken online. Websites need these for knowing when you've added something to your basket, or…