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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.

WordPress web design

18a working with Papersmyths

We are extremely proud to announce that Papersmyths have selected 18a to be their new web partner going forward.

Netty Award 2024

18a win Netty 2024 award for Activibees.com

We are delighted to announce that 18a has been recognised for its outstanding work in the “Web Design Agency of the Year – UK” category at the 2024 Netty Awards. It was our work on Activibees.com, our inhouse “things to do” platform, that earned us this prestigious award. The Netty Awards celebrate achievements in the digital landscape, honoring […]

Google makes big changes to email security

If you've seen scary messages about your email sending lately, it's because Gmail and Yahoo! are about to tighten up the rules on what it will deliver to their users from the 1st February 2024. Whilst SPF, DKIM and DMARC records are nothing new, it's about to be more important than…

Web trends for 2024

The end of another year, so prepare for another barrage of "trends for next year" type blog posts. But they are very interesting to look back on in years to come, to see how right we were!   So what does 2024 potentially have in store for the web? And…

Podcast: Mastering Continuous Improvement Through Agile Development

Earlier this month I was asked to be on a panel for the latest Evolution podcast, where I sat with other tech leaders to discuss "Mastering Continuous Improvement Through Agile Development". I was joined by  Dwayne Pascal, CTO of Reveall, Gary Clark, CTO of SchoolGrid, and Evangelos Pappas, Head of Engineering,…

All there in black and white – or full colour: a new home page for Jericho Writers

We've been working with Jericho Writers for a few months now, getting to know their very complicated WordPress membership site. If you're not familiar with Jericho Writers, they're a passionate team offering a host of services to help budding authors get published. The team consists of a lot of successful…

Have yours on the rocks: Moments on Mendip

In July we told you how we're helping Leeds University with their Dialect & Heritage project. Meanwhile August saw the launch of Mendips AONB's Moments on Mendip campaign, where you could see your photos projected onto the rock faces of Cheddar Gorge. Moments on Mendip is a community-led photographic exhibition of…