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Introducing ModQ – the team generated content tool

We are super excited to announce the re-launch of our digital marketing tool, ModQ.co ModQ helps marketers by collating all their TGC (team generated content) in one place. Too often if content is contributed by other people in a team or company it's scattered across email, What's App, text and…

New year, new rules…

Happy New Year! Welcome to 2018... the year GDPR comes into force. If you haven't heard about GDPR, then I'm afraid you need to get up to speed quickly, because it comes into force in May this year. But have no fear, we can help bring your website inline with…

Is Your Website GDPR Ready?

Is Your Website GDPR Ready? If You Haven't Considered Whether You're GDPR Ready, Or Would Like To Chat Over Your Plans, Get In Touch For Some New Year GDPR Consultancy And Strategy Work.

Full or part time web architect and project manager required

Are you a coder looking for a slightly different challenge? Or are you a project manager who knows your way around PHPMyAdmin and can spot a browser cache from a code glitch at 20 paces? Then you might be who we're looking for!  Due to a constantly expanding client list,…

How to get an A Grade SSL Install with Letsencrypt on EC2

LetsEncrypt is great, but it doesn't always work brilliantly with Amazon EC2 instances.Documented below are the various steps and hurdles I've had to overcome to install LetsEncrypt and configure Apache to run a clients site securely over SSL. I'm writing this as much as anything for my own reference as…

Adding refresh functionality to a Laravel Captcha

We recently had the problem that users couldn't always read the captchas being generated on a client's site and they wanted a 'refresh captcha' option.

Getting Started with AMP

Everyone wants their website to load as fast as possible, especially for people on mobile devices. When time is scarce and very precious, waiting for pages to load can be extremely frustrating. Responsive web design is all very well, but often whilst pages are designed to look pretty on a…

Retina Images – Automatically serve high-res images, to those who’ll appreciate them.

We were looking for a neat way to handle high resolution images for devices that can benefit from them and have discovered a handy solution in the form of retinaimag.es.Using just a small snippet of js code and a few other bits and bobs, it determines if you're viewing the site…

Why have my Instagram pictures stopped appearing on my website?

If you were a user of the Instafeed.js service for Instagram, you may have noticed recently that your pictures have stopped automagically appearing on your website. This is due to some recent legal changes Instagram have made to their API, which has unfortunately stopped the app (for now atleast) from…

Creating an SVG version of our logo

SVGs are awesome! If your image is in SVG format it's a vector (as the name suggests) and will scale beautifully to any size you desire. This is in contrast to a more traditional format such as a .gif or .png which will go blurry once you go past their…

Opencart Contact Form Bug with Stores Running Over SSL

Opencart Contact Form Bug with Stores Running Over SSL

Christmas Opening Hours 2015

Well it is that time of year again and what a wonderful one it has been. We've made some fantastic sites, continued to build great relationships, welcomed new 18a team members and even launched our non-for-profit organisation TheWebGuild.org. Like many of you we will be closing at 1pm today in…