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How to Automatically Create a Newsletter

Everyone knows that newsletters are a great and cost effective way of keeping in touch with your customers, letting them know what you've been up to and reminding them of the services you offer. But finding time to create an attractive and interesting newsletter can be a real challenge, especially…

Half Baked Brand off to a flying start, and a feature on bikeradar.com

Great news today that a relatively new client of ours, Half Baked Brand, with their unique range of cycling jerseys, have been featured on Bikeradar.com.  Future Publishing website Bikeradar gets over 1.5 million unique visitors a month, so it's a great piece of coverage for the new online based business.…

The Internet of Things

A nice little introduction to the Internet of Things or the semantic web as it's often refered as. People have been talking about the interconnections which are possible between systems for years and there's no denying that things are becoming more connected and smarter. At the moment the Internet of…

Twitter customer service from 123-reg

Yesterday I tweeted that I wasn't very happy with 123-reg auto-renewing a .com domain name for 2 years without my say so - and I just received a phone call from their customer services team to see if they could help resolve the issue. It wasn't the auto-renewal I had…

UKCourseBookers.com goes live – 2 week turn around

UK Course Bookers Ltd. needed an identity and a slick website - and they needed it quickly. So they came to us! In just 2 weeks we designed and built ukcoursebookers.com which features admin bookings management tools and user accounts so customers can view their past orders, update their details…

18a and the top creative companies in the South West

I've just been checking out the results for the South West Top 100 Creative Companies, which is ranked according to fees earned/turnover. Which means that we're not on it, because we're not big enough (or don't charge enough ;) to beat the big boys. But still, it was great to…

What To Do When You Launch: Before, During, and After

When setting up a new web venue for the first time you could be easily forgiven for thinking that building your website would be your biggest hurdle, but it's really not. I was just browsing our industry news when a post on ReadWriteWeb popped up and really rang true for…

Trailer for The Social Network Movie

They're right - you don't make 500 million friends without making a few enemies along the way too. If you haven't seen the trailer for the new film about the creation of Facebook, check it out below. It looks better than I thought it would, but I find some of…

Code for America… Why not Code for Britain?

I just stumbled upon this interesting project currently going on in the US. Code for America is a project aimed at bringing some of the skills and experience from the private tech sector into government to help councils in cities around the US become more efficient. I particularly like the…

18a meet Facebook Developer Matt Kelly

We admit it. We're geeks. Which meant it was very exciting to meet Facebook Developer Matt Kelly (left in the pic, with our Technical Director Tom Freeman on the right) in San Francisco as part of our 18a Road Trip the other day. He was a lovely guy and it…

Embargo a post or page in WordPress

When you add a post or a page to Wordpress, you have the option of embargoing it so it doesn't display on your site until a set date. Really useful if you want to write a whole load of content once a month and have it drip feed through during…

Using the WordPress more tag

Sometimes you see blogs and just from looking at the first page you can read the whole body of 10 articles. Other times you see blogs and you can only read the first paragraph or so before you have to click on a title or read more link to see…