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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

Creating a basic table in WordPress using Easy Table

As the name might suggest, creating a table in Wordpress using Easy Table is very easy.Creating a tableOnce the plugin is installed you simply go to the text editor within wordpress and enter:[table][/table]Populating your tableTo give your table some data you simply type in the text you want to appear…

Server migration issues

Some of our hosting clients may be experiencing problems with their hosting and email but we are working to get this resolved as soon as possible.Yesterday evening our server alerts made us aware of a problem with the hosting of some of our clients' sites. We immediately investigated everything we…

Changes to OpenCart payment’s controller inline with WorldPay updates

If you use WorldPay to process your payments on your OpenCart shop you may have recently received emails from them about updates to their system.For a client running OpenCart v. 1.5.1.3.1 I've just made the following changes to their WorldPay controller, so as to call to a different WorldPay URL.…

WordPress security alert!!

WordPress have been hit recently by attackers targeting the "admin" user account.The incredibly popular website software is used by millions of websites around the world and it's important to keep your installation of WordPress up to date.The people attacking WordPress currently seem to be aiming their attack at both stand…

How to add special offers, discounts and vouchers in OpenCart

There are various ways you can offer discounts to your customers with OpenCart - you can do it via "Specials", "Discounts" or "Coupons" (voucher codes).Specials:Specials let you mark an item as being reduced in price - depending on your theme, this might show the old price with a line through…

Google’s semantic web needs to be careful

We've just had a conversation about Gilbey's Gin, after a client of ours did some work for them.So, the first thing I did was Google "Gilbey's Gin", which brought back a result showing me a photo of Sir Walter Gilbey, along with a photo of him and some info about…

Using Twitter Web Intents

We've just added some social media links to Poole Trail so that people can share the great stories and media on the City Insights route.As the design called for custom links rather than just social media icons / widgets, we discovered that the old way of doing things for Twitter…

Adwords conversion tracking in OpenCart

How do you add conversion tracking to OpenCart when it has a shared success page?A client asked me to add some Google Adwords conversion tracking code to their OpenCart website's success page that is shown after someone completes an order.However, OpenCart doesn't have one file for that - it has catalog/view/theme/xxx/template/common/success.tpl…

Merry Christmas from 18a!

Merry Christmas to all of our clients - old and new - from 18a Productions!Woo - what a busy year! We've worked one some great projects during 2012 - lots we'll be adding to our portfolio shortly and lots we can't tell you about! We've worked with lots of new clients…

Adding categories in OpenCart

This is the first in a range of tutorials for getting started with OpenCart. As your business evolves and changes you may find you need to add / edit / delete categories in your shop.Step 1: Log into the admin of your shop, and from the menu bar along the top of…

How to add products to OpenCart

If you've got an OpenCart shop, one thing you might do often is add products.The products section of OpenCart is extremely comprehensive. Therefore there will be LOTS of options you don't need to worry about but here's a run down of what everything means.Step 1:From the menu in admin along…

Adding a WordPress gallery

WordPress is a great piece of software for easy to update websites and it comes with a nifty gallery feature. Here are some instructions for how to use it.Firstly, you need to upload your photos into your Post or Page (galleries work on either). Click on the Insert Media icon…