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Bristol restaurants coming up trumps!

We're always mentioning the latest places we've eaten in Bristol to friends and family outside the city - and increasingly these little gems are getting the recognition they deserve! After achieving Bristol's first Michelin Star, Casamia in Westbury-on-Trym have just been crowned Britain's best restaurant by Gordon Ramsey! Brothers Jonray…

Day and Night design feature on LoveGloucesterRoad.org.uk

This is really quite simple compared to the rest of the coding we do here at 18a Towers, but it's still fun! If you visit LoveGloucesterRoad.org.uk - a website we've made for free to help promote our local area - then, depending on whether you visit it in the day…

WP e-commerce plugin User Guide

Below are instructions for how to update WP e-commerce, a very good online shop plugin for Wordpress websites. Adding products: The main thing you need to know how to do, is to add products. Here's a screenshot of (what looks like the very long...) products page. You access it by…

Halloween campaign for AQuarterOf.co.uk

Case Study: marketing with the seasons. We do the affiliate management for AQuarterOf.co.uk - the UK's favourite online retro sweet shop - and as you can imagine, Halloween is a busy time! The Halloween banners were rolled out a month ago, and we've been working with various affiliates on content…

Nasty spam email offering tax rebate

Just a quick note to watch out for emails like this one I received supposedly from HMRC this morning. Hovering over the links in the email shows me it's actually trying to send me to recivetaxrefund .xf .cz - quite different to hmrc.gov.uk!  It also doesn't have a "to" address -…

Going that extra mile with WordPress – great feedback for Growing Vision Gardens

A fine example of a bespoke Wordpress customisation, Growing Vision Gardens is now live! This site is a case study of how going the extra mile can make all the difference. Rather than stop at the initial completion of getting content on the pages, we worked with Growing Vision Gardens…

What is Google? And how does it work with your new website?

One of the most common causes for confusion with website owners is how Google works, so I thought I'd just write a little explanation! When you have a website built, you have a domain name address (www.yourwebsite.co.uk) where you and other people can visit your website. The way to get…

Browser testing to include skype?

Just to add to the long list of what us web developers have got to check for is Skype installations. I've been noticing recently how if you've got Skype installed on your computer, then it is very helpful and turns phone numbers into clickable links for you on websites you…

Tart featured in Good Housekeeping

Gloucester Road's very own Tart has a double page spread in the latest edition (October 2010) of Good Housekeeping. Tart are our client (we help them looking after their website) and our neighbour on Gloucester Road so we were very excited for them when they told us to watch out…

The meerkat strikes again.

We follow Aleksandr Orlov on Twitter, so I noticed yesterday that he (!) was quite chuffed that his catchphrase "Simples!" was used in hit E4 show The Inbetweeners. Series 3 of The Inbetweeners had been eagerly awaited by many after gradually building up a huge army of fans, and Channel…

New twitter site starts rolling out

Twitter have unveiled their new look site - and I think it looks pretty good! Of course the proof is in the using... I really like the way Twitter have managed the space on the screen - with show and hides you can give a user a lot of information…

Yarty Valley Dairies win Taste of the West Award

I just made a round of tea in 18a HQ and found that - by pure chance - we had Yarty Valley Dairies milk. Which was very exciting because we made Yarty Valley's website for them earlier this year! The wordpress site allows them to update the site with news…