We’ve gone open plan!

We've opened up some space in our cottage offices and gone open plan.It was a scary Friday afternoon when builders started to take a wall down in our office - but we're very glad we braved it! Our building is a 200 year old cottage, with a cafe and an…

A new responsive website for the AJA

We are extremely proud to announce the launch of the new Amateur Jockeys Association of Great Britain website.We built the last AJA site a number of years ago and it badly needed an update. The new site still uses WordPress, but now uses the latest version, along with carefully chosen…

Our new website goes live!

We took advantage of a few days off over Easter to set our new website live.Our Techincal Director, Tom Freeman, has been busy building our new site whilst I myself have been flat out making all the new portfolio images (it had been so long since we'd updated our portfolio,…

Farewell onespace – hello singleparents

Last year we launched a new website for single parent charity Single Parent Action Network's online presence - onespace.org.uk.Unfortunately earlier this year they found out that they weren't going to get continued funding and so they'd have to end the project which has been running since 2008. We were invited to…

A fresh look for Bank Security Printing

We certainly work with all types of businesses - it's fascinating to learn about everything that makes the world go round!Bank Security Printing has recently changed hands and the new owners came to us to quickly and cost effectively produce a contemporary, professional website which they would be able to…

Is your site ready for the big Google change?

Google have announced that their "mobile friendly" change is going to take effect from the 21st April, so you've got a month to get your site ready if it isn't already.This change is going to effect searches done from mobile devices - if an Internet User carries out a Google…

Major website updates for mappmedia.com

We made Mapp Media's website back in 2013, and were now ready for a few changes.Back then they were a start up - now they're established in tbeir field which means their needs have changed. Meanwhile, a wealth of new domain names are available since their launch and they've secured…

New website for Mike Burns Photography

We built Mike Burns a website for his photography business a few years ago but with a new target market he needed a fresh look and feel.Preivously primarily a wedding photographer, Mike's website was very heavily wedding orientated. However a new business avenue has opened up to him, thanks to…

Astbury Marine Services website launches

Astbury Marine Services came to us with an old website that didn't have a CMS and asked us for a fresh brand and site.We opted to build the site on WordPress and now they have a clean, clear website which they can update easily themselves.As conflict resolution experts the site…

Happy 2015 from 18a

We hope you had a wonderful break and are looking forward to 2015!We've got some very exciting projects in the pipeline which we hope to be able to tell you about soon. Meanwhile we're planning some building work in our offices, hoping to expand our team and if we find…

2014 Christmas opening hours

It's that time of year again!And we're getting ready to hang our stockings and pop the turkey in the oven.Our offices will close at 1pm on the 24th December, and re-open again at 9am on the 5th January 2015. Website up time monitoring of sites we host will continue as always,…

Changing the zoom level on an embedded Google Map

I love Google products, but they change more often than I change my socks!Which means you constantly need to learn how to use their products to get the best out of them.The latest example of this was updating a Google Map embedded on a client's site. I made the map…