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Lisa Freeman

Lisa Freeman

Lisa Freeman is a web strategist, founder of 18a and fractional Technical Director.

She started her career over 20 years ago as a coder and now is primarily a “communication bridge” between developers (or tools) and clients, explaining complicated web decisions in easy to understand ways.

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Articles by Lisa Freeman

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…

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?

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…

How to find what keywords people are coming to your site from

You can use Google Analytics and Google Search Console to see how people found your site

Facebook Dark Mode rolled out across the UK

What does Facebook Dark Mode look like and how do you turn it on?

How healthy is your cloud?

Cloud health is quite a generic term but in this instance it's concerned with watching the pennies. CloudHealth lets you see your spend in AWS, Azure, Google or a data centre and analyses for

Are Apple to blame for the UK contact tracing app being shelved?

News is rife with how the UK's contact tracing app plans are stalled - with fingers being pointed at tech giant Apple.

Growing healthy young minds with Create and Iszy

A few weeks ago we launched Healthy Young Minds for Create Health, to encourage primary school age children to think about some big issues. All based around STEM subjects, Healthy Young Minds features a selection of challenges for 5-11 year olds to choose from to help them consider their take…