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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

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…

The new Google Chromebook

So when I first heard of the "Chromebook" I honestly couldn't think what it might be! I thought it was maybe a published document of research from Google. But doh! It's a little netbook (small laptop) that doesn't have anything else than a web browser on it.No desktop (and so…

The Facebook Smear Campaign Against Google

I read on the BBC website today that Facebook have admitted to paying a PR company to run a smear campaign against Google.Imagine taking the tactic of rather than paying a PR company to promote you, you pay them to bad mouth your competition? Not an approach I like, or…

Internet World Conference

I'm writing this on the way back from the last day of the Internet World conference, and overall I'd say it was an interesting day out!There was the usual barage of email marketers, SEO-ers and hosting companies and at least one "newly invented brand new product" that has of course…

Adding a Share page on Facebook – tips for your Facebook fan page

So once you've got people liking your Facebook fan page, how do you get them to spread the word?Well one way is to create a Share page, as shown below. A very good adoption of this page is to send people there as soon as they've liked your page. So…