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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

Is WordPress editor jumping down slightly when you click?

Recently we've encountered a small but very irritating glitch in the WordPress editor whereby the content editor will jump down by a line when clicking in the text area. After a bit of investigation we discovered this can be solved by disabling the "Enable full-height editor and distraction-free functionality" checkbox…

An AWSome day of learning

Our developer Craig recently took part in the AWSome Day where AWS tell you all about their cloud hosting offerings. (AWSome... do you see what they did there?!) We've got a few clients on AWS as we've been working with Amazon's hosting for a few years now, so this webinar…

Cleaning a mailing list for GDPR

We’re helping a couple of clients at the moment clean their mailing lists ahead of GDPR. By this I mean if any of their subscribers didn’t double opt-in, or didn’t sign up inline with the consent rules of GDPR, then they need to be asked to rejoin. For one client,…

18a welcome Harriet to the team

Hello all! My name is Harriet and I’m the newbie here at 18a working as a marketing and communications apprentice. I’ve just entered my 5th working week now and what a whirlwind it’s been! Lots to be learned. Having already done A-levels, a foundation degree and a university degree in Photography, I…

Senior full-stack developer role, near Weston-Super-Mare

Are you an experienced PHP/full-stack developer looking for a change in 2018? We're looking for someone, full or part time, with experience in the following areas - to take a key role with our busy client list of International brands and digital starts ups. - PHP- SQL- HTML5- CSS3- JavaScript /…

Happy Birthday to us! 10 this year.

18a is 10 years old this year! 2017 marks 10 years since Tom and I started trading as 18a Productions - 18a because we were working in Tom's flat - 18a Gloucester Road. It was a very small basement flat but we lived and worked there 24/7, building our fledgling…

The new wave of child friendly web events

As the mum of a toddler, who works with her developer husband, attending web events has gotten quite tricky over the last few years.

A brief review of Butlins.com

A UX review with some ideas and bug finding, carried out on butlins.com.

Clever copy and paste check from PC World

I selected the title of the product and copied it - ready to paste it into Google - and the site popped up a message telling me about it's price matching promise with selected competitors.

GDPR essentials for web developers and site owners

We've got a year until the GDPR comes into force, by which time websites across the land will need updating to ensure they conform.

How the BBC hide their h1 tag

The BBC home page hides it's h1 tag, but is that good practice?

Are banners to out of stock products losing you sales?

If you link to a certain product with a certain specification and it's out of stock, are you missing out on sales?