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New reviews section of muchbetteradventures.com

Muchbetteradventures.com are going from strength to strength, and so to build on the community aspect of their adventure travel site, they needed a full scale reviews system! When the site launched last November it had the facility for members to leave a review, along with photos, but it was time…

Uploading PDFs and other file attachments in WordPress

If you want to offer your readers a downloadable PDF or other file on your Wordpress blog, then here's how you do it... Just above the main content area - whether you're writing a page or a post - there's a row of symbols. You'll be familiar with the first…

Horizontal spaces between images in Gmail html emails

I just received a HTML newsletter from play.com and it reminded me of something we discovered with Gmail a few months ago... Since the powers-that-be at Google created a new class of font-size:80%, horizontal spaces have been appearing between images. And it looks like play have unfortunately (maybe) fallen foul…

Clever email marketing idea from my-wardrobe

I received a newsletter last night that I thought was quite a clever idea, from my-wardrobe.com. With the bank holiday approaching, they asked several high profile editors what they'd be wearing over the long weekend. Bang on subject for their target market - trend setters discussing styles, with tips and…

Half Baked Brand off to a flying start, and a feature on bikeradar.com

Great news today that a relatively new client of ours, Half Baked Brand, with their unique range of cycling jerseys, have been featured on Bikeradar.com.  Future Publishing website Bikeradar gets over 1.5 million unique visitors a month, so it's a great piece of coverage for the new online based business.…

Twitter customer service from 123-reg

Yesterday I tweeted that I wasn't very happy with 123-reg auto-renewing a .com domain name for 2 years without my say so - and I just received a phone call from their customer services team to see if they could help resolve the issue. It wasn't the auto-renewal I had…

UKCourseBookers.com goes live – 2 week turn around

UK Course Bookers Ltd. needed an identity and a slick website - and they needed it quickly. So they came to us! In just 2 weeks we designed and built ukcoursebookers.com which features admin bookings management tools and user accounts so customers can view their past orders, update their details…

18a and the top creative companies in the South West

I've just been checking out the results for the South West Top 100 Creative Companies, which is ranked according to fees earned/turnover. Which means that we're not on it, because we're not big enough (or don't charge enough ;) to beat the big boys. But still, it was great to…

Trailer for The Social Network Movie

They're right - you don't make 500 million friends without making a few enemies along the way too. If you haven't seen the trailer for the new film about the creation of Facebook, check it out below. It looks better than I thought it would, but I find some of…

18a meet Facebook Developer Matt Kelly

We admit it. We're geeks. Which meant it was very exciting to meet Facebook Developer Matt Kelly (left in the pic, with our Technical Director Tom Freeman on the right) in San Francisco as part of our 18a Road Trip the other day. He was a lovely guy and it…

Embargo a post or page in WordPress

When you add a post or a page to Wordpress, you have the option of embargoing it so it doesn't display on your site until a set date. Really useful if you want to write a whole load of content once a month and have it drip feed through during…

Using the WordPress more tag

Sometimes you see blogs and just from looking at the first page you can read the whole body of 10 articles. Other times you see blogs and you can only read the first paragraph or so before you have to click on a title or read more link to see…