The launch of The Web Guild

5 years ago, Lisa Freeman, a Director here at 18a, came up with the idea of a Guild for web professionals.The idea was to help businesses choose a web developer who would suit their project - a trustworthy, experienced, professional company who would give them a good service.Meanwhile, the Guild…

Re-branding for Mapp Media

We recently helped Mapp Media rebrand their website, changing all of their previous purple into green! We made the changes to their blog site and holding page for their new brochure site which we're currently developing on WordPress. The blog site is fully responsive and kept up to date with…

Helping your customers get more from your products

We've just set up a new page for Beyond The Bean's WordPress website so that they can easily add their How To videos.Their professionally produced videos talk their visitors through how to get the best from their products - such as creating a flavoured latte from their Sweetbird range.It's always…

A new look for Magnetic North Travel

We built Magnetic North Travel's site back in 2010 and now 5 years on they needed a glossy make over and to go responsive!Now an established luxury holiday brand, Magnetic North needed a site which emphasises how special their holidays really are. Powerful photography is key, as are memorable design…

A shiny new look for Muddy Boots

Muddy Boots Software needed a website refresh to showcase the latest in their product offerings, and we're very proud of the results!The fully responsive site suits large screens through to mobiles, with colour coded product landing pages making a real splash about each piece of their software.CSS3 animations on the…

New CMS for Bristol architects noma

Bristol architects noma wanted to be able to update their website themselves.After years of needing a developer to update their static HTML website, noma came to us to help them create an easy to use site they can update in house to keep potential clients informed of their latest work,…

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…