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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

18a Christmas 2011 opening hours

Our offices will be closed from 5.30pm on Friday 23rd December 2011 - 9am on Monday 9th January 2012.  Hosting: All hosting will continue to be monitored 24/7 and any problems will be addressed throughout the Christmas period. We might be on holiday, but we're still on hosting-watch! Support: If…

WordPress 3.3 is released

If you've got a WordPress blog, then you might want to consider upgrading to the latest version - WordPress 3.3.Features include the ability to drag and drop a batch of mixed media instead of uploading each file (there's been a multi-file uploader for a while which I found was never…

Join us for the first RWW Bristol meet up!

One of the biggest technology blogs in the world, Read Write Web, are organising a Worldwide meet up on Tuesday 15th November, and encouraging people across the globe to organise meet ups in their area.So we're organising the Bristol one! Calling all South West geeks! If you're in the web industry…

Paypal now keep their fee when you refund a customer

We're just setting up the Paypal API for a new client, and have found a change since we last did it just a few weeks ago!It seems that in September 2011, the UK terms for Paypal updated to say that Paypal now keep the fixed part of their fee when…

Fancy a stake in Half Baked Brand?

We made Half Baked Brand's website for them last year so they could begin selling their cycling apparel online.It's been an exciting year for the new company, with shop premises all but open and great features in leading national cycling magazines. And now it's set to get all the more…

Have you got customer reviews on your Facebook page?

If you've got customer reviews on your Facebook page, which are no where else, then copy and paste them and save them quick!Facebook have announced that as of the 31st October 2011 they're removing the reviews tab from Facebook Pages, so as to encourage people to use the wall instead.…

How to make someone an admin of your Facebook page

If you're an organisation with a Facebook Fan Page, a time is likely to come where you need someone else to be able to administer your page. This is particularly the case in companies, when the person who created the page goes on holiday or is out of the office.It's very…

Bad luck for Somerset in the enterprise zone locations

Here at 18a we were excited a few months ago when Bristol's Temple Quarter was announced as one of the Goverment's new Enterprise Zones.After Bristol was named in March as being a spot for one of the new zones, the exact location of 173 acres near Temple Meads was announced…

Wallpaper for your iPad – how to make good sized iPad wallpaper

If you're using your iPad in a presentation, you might want something more branded and professional than a photo of your cat as the background, whilst being more interesting that than patterns and generic squiggles the ipad comes with by default.However - as we all know - the wallpaper/background on…

Are you making the most of social media?

Social media isn't for every business - and if you're going to bother, then you've got to do it consistently - but there are lots of reasons why it's good to find the time for it.With over 600,000,000 people using Facebook, it's quite likely that some of them are also…

Facebook face tagging – and how to turn it off

Facebook have done it again - rolled out a feature and angered people who didn't want it turned on by default. And this latest feature, is more than a little bit creepy!Now, when you upload photos, Facebook will try to recognise if your friends are in any of them, and then…

Gmail autoresponders not working with POP3 email accounts

For years now, I've run my work email through Gmail and never had a problem with people receiving an "out of the office" message when I'm in meetings or on holiday.However, it's just come to my attention that this feature isn't 100% reliable lately, so I've spent this morning investigating...A…