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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

A basic guide to making a social media schedule for busy people

Which networks need the most upkeen and when?

A tip for using video in email marketing

If you're putting video in your emails - is it obvious?

Marketing messages: remember what your audience don’t know

It's all too easy when you're eating, breathing and sleeping your product / business to forget that your customers or audience probably don't know the details as well as you!

We’re hiring – PHP / full stack web developer required

We're looking for a LAMP stack developer to join our team.We're a happy, busy little agency with an exciting client list of international brand-clients, web start ups and small businesses. We build everything from simple Wordpress websites, to more complicated bespoke web applications and apps (think e-learning, payments portals, reporting…

A UX consideration for Nationwide

A few weeks ago I wrote a little UX review of something I found odd with Nationwide's online banking, but I didn't get around to publishing it.1 It went a little something like this..."Now, of course, I don't know the reasons behind what I'm about to describe and so please,…

Pitching design concepts

Why you shouldn't ask for designs as part of a website quote.

What if your website didn’t need a colour palette?

How about if your website design changed colour depending on the content of your home page at any one time?

Another reason not to use pop ups on your website

Do people visit your website from within Facebook? Do they leave again quickly?

Pixlr Express not saving images when used in MS Edge

If you're finding you can't save images in Pixlr, try using Firefox or Chrome

PayPal issues updated security requirements

PayPal have announced some updates you'll need to ensure you comply with during 2016.

Facebook opens up LIKE to a range of options

Now you can express other emotions about Facebook status'

New legal requirement for websites: ODR service goes live

The EU's ODR is live as of today to allow customers and consumers to submit complaints