An AWSome day of learning

Our developer Craig recently took part in the AWSome Day where AWS tell you all about their cloud hosting offerings. (AWSome... do you see what they did there?!) We've got a few clients on AWS as we've been working with Amazon's hosting for a few years now, so this webinar…

Cleaning a mailing list for GDPR

We’re helping a couple of clients at the moment clean their mailing lists ahead of GDPR. By this I mean if any of their subscribers didn’t double opt-in, or didn’t sign up inline with the consent rules of GDPR, then they need to be asked to rejoin. For one client,…

18a welcome Harriet to the team

Hello all! My name is Harriet and I’m the newbie here at 18a working as a marketing and communications apprentice. I’ve just entered my 5th working week now and what a whirlwind it’s been! Lots to be learned. Having already done A-levels, a foundation degree and a university degree in Photography, I…

Senior full-stack developer role, near Weston-Super-Mare

Are you an experienced PHP/full-stack developer looking for a change in 2018? We're looking for someone, full or part time, with experience in the following areas - to take a key role with our busy client list of International brands and digital starts ups. - PHP- SQL- HTML5- CSS3- JavaScript /…

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…

Happy Birthday to us! 10 this year.

18a is 10 years old this year! 2017 marks 10 years since Tom and I started trading as 18a Productions - 18a because we were working in Tom's flat - 18a Gloucester Road. It was a very small basement flat but we lived and worked there 24/7, building our fledgling…

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…

Digital Designer job vacancy nr. Bristol and Weston-Super-Mare

We're looking for an enthusiastic, bright, hard working designer to join our busy little agency to cover our existing Designer's maternity leave (and who knows beyond that). Based in Winscombe (BS25) nestled in the Mendips between Bristol, Weston-Super-Mare, and Cheddar, we make websites for international organisations, tech start ups, and…

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…