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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

AWS cost spiralling? Do you need a checkup?

Have you noticed your AWS costs going up lately? It's a good idea to carry out a AWS audit from time to time to see where your money is going.

Chris Pye master woodcarver

Helping you plan your website exit strategy

Sometimes it's not all about building websites - but closing them down!

Google Maps broken

Google Map saying “for development purposes only”

If your Google Map on your website is looking broken, with the message "for development purposes only" and an ugly white box over it, this is how you fix it.

LIVE article mark up for SEO

LIVE articles launch for oilprice.com

We've worked with oilprice.com for over 13 years, and in that time we've constantly pushed their site to stay ahead for Google and all things SEO.

Creator Profiles on activibees

Creator Profiles on activibees.com with AWS Transcribe and ChatGPT

Using Transcribe from AWS and ChatGPT we're changing the scene of travel content creation.

WordPress website for ARC

Phase 1 website for new energy agency, ARC

ARC New Energy needed show stopping new website before they attended an event.

Internationalisation for Sweetbird

Long term client BeyondTheBean had an urgent job for us recently when they very quickly needed to launch a sub-set of products to a brand new American audience.

Automated website reporting

Automated reporting for Oxford County Council

We were recently asked to provide some automated reporting on a jobs website advertising care jobs within Oxford, for part of a jobs website we made for Oxford County Council.

New holding page for Hotseat

It's always fun working with a new brand identity, and our latest work with media training company Hotseat was no exception.

Multilingual news website

Using AI to make a news site multilingual

One of our clients is a very big and busy news site - we’re talking up to 2.2 million visitors a day. So to make that audience even bigger, we decided to harness the power of AI to translate the many articles they publish a day. 

Commission free charity ticket payments launch on activibees

We are super excited - and actually very proud - to announce that charities can now sell tickets for their events absolutely for free on activibees.com.

Stori Powys

New digital archive for StoriPowys

Lluniau StoriPowys is the new platform for the digital collections of Powys County Council’s Museums, Libraries and Archives.