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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

Online Dispute Resolution service to go live in February

The ODR platform will be operational from the 9th January and will be rolled out in stages, fully accessible on the 15th February 2016.

Tracking marketing campaigns with your OpenCart shop

An often overlooked feature of OpenCart is the ability to track marketing campaigns.

Life in the fast lane – a new website for Performance Verbier

When you're running a business where agility and accuracy are essential attributes, you need your website to do the same. This wasn't quite the case for the specialist ski instructors and experts at Performance Verbier .. until now!When your business demands a quick response you need a website that can…

Social media for customer service: your customers will use it even if you don’t!

New stats show that brands are failing - in a big way - to respond to their customers on social media.

Our new Digital Account Manager – Meet Lian

Well what a week! I thought I'd start by saying Hi! I'm Lian Simmons, the new Account Manager here at 18a having joined the team on Monday.I'll be on hand full time Monday-Friday to help you with any queries you may have or simply keep you up to date on…

EU Commission’s Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) Platform

From the 9th January 2016, online businesses need to link to the new ODR.

How many visitors is a page getting, and from where?

Do you ever need to find exactly how many people have visited a certain page of your site?

Errors whilst installing CS-Cart

If you keep getting errors whilst changing the admin path of a CS Cart installation, try this tip.

We’re hiring – Digital account handler role

Update: This position has now been filled.We're looking for an enthusiastic web project manager / account handler to join our team. We are a small, friendly, busy agency with an exciting client list of international brand-clients, web start ups and small businesses. We build everything from simple Wordpress websites, to…

Buying baby wellies: a UX review of mothercare.com

Having just bough some wellies on the easy to use mothercare website, I thought I'd suggest a few things which could be made even better!

Keeping the free Internet alive

Can you put up with ads if it means you get all your Internet content for free?

Winscombe triumphs again!

Winscombe - home of 18a's HQ - has hit the headlines again for being a great place to be!We moved out of the centre of Bristol, Gloucester Road, in 2011 - we wanted to be on the outskirts of Bristol so we could still drive in easily for meetings, whilst…