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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

CropFarmer shortlisted in Agri Innovation Den 2019

We are delighted to announce that our inhouse agritech start up, CropFarmer, has been shortlisted in the Agri Innovation Den 2019 competition. The Agri Innovation Den competition, which is supported this year by BASF, is run by Agri Briefing, the media house behind national publications such as Farmers Guardian and…

Marketing and Operations Assistant

We're looking for an enthusiastic, hard working marketing and operations assistant with bucket loads of business sense, creativity and initiative, for an exciting full or part time role with flexible working hours. Whilst we're a digital agency, this isn't a typical digital marketing role where you'll just be updating clients'…

PHP Web Developer – full or part time

Are you a PHP developer looking for your next role? We're looking for someone - full or part time - with the following skill set to help us with our busy client list of International brands and digital starts ups. - PHP- SQL- HTML5- CSS3- JavaScript / jQuery- MVC frameworks…

Data Processor agreements for web developers

Under the GDPR, web developers will often need a data processor agreement with every client.

Autoscaling for SafeHaven

The newly relaunched SafeHaven.com is already picking up traffic - and so needed some AWS magic! We recently built a new site for Safe Haven to replace the previous site on the domain with a modern day CMS that our client can quickly and easily update. The site specialises in news…

Hootsuite API hookup for ModQ

We recently got accepted onto the Hootsuite Developer Platform with our content gathering tool ModQ. ModQ lets you easily collect images, video and text from your team, volunteers or public audience so that you can broadcast fresh, relevant content. You can post directly to social networks from the tool but as Hootsuite…

Google Maps becomes Google Maps Platform and introduces new PAYG billing

There's always been a point at which you need to start paying for Google Maps, but a reshuffle of their structure has made that pay-point feel a lot closer.

Load testing – our new favourite thing

Last year a client needed some load testing done on their site before a big server migration. This means testing if the new server is up to the job of receiving the expected traffic levels - and adjusting it before you go live if it isn't, so it doesn't fall over and…

RealSelf secures $40 million in funding

Cosmetic surgery website RealSelf has just raised $40,000,000 to help people learn about procedures like botox.

Amazon roll out Internet app for users in India

Amazon have rolled out a 2MB lite browser to help Indian consumers browse the Internet.

Video ad platform goes live for OilPrice.com

Our client OilPrice.com have been looking for a while for a video ad platform. They've spoken to a few companies and had trials - but the costs are often pretty huge. So we stepped in and made them their own - in just a few hours. The videos themselves are called from Vimeo.com…

Who even are SmugMug and what do they do?

You've probably heard that SmugMug have bought Flickr for an undisclosed amount.