Web trends for 2024
By lisa, 14.12.23
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
By lisa, 16.10.23
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,…
Have yours on the rocks: Moments on Mendip
By lisa, 18.09.23
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…
New product launch for Sweetbird: reusable cups for cold drinks
By lisa, 17.05.23
We've worked with Sweetbird for a few years now, just helping them tinker around the edges of their existing WordPress site. As we know WordPress inside out, we "inherit" a lot of existing sites which the original developers can no longer support for various reasons. Maybe the site has grown…
Speeding up arranging meetings with AvailabilityCal
By lisa, 27.03.23
We've recently launched AvailabilityCal.com - a neat little tool to help ease that back and forth over email when you're trying to arrange a mutually convenient time for a meeting. Apparently the average meeting takes 7 emails to arrange - eugh! Now, as long as my Google Calendar is up…
We are hiring: full stack developer
By lisa, 7.06.21
We're looking for an experienced PHP developer to join our highly effective team. We're problem solvers, with clients depending on us - some of them for over a decade - to help them with great ideas and solutions to their technical challenges. We've got clients all over the world, across…
Last orders for Christmas 2020
By lisa, 11.12.20
It's been a crazy year for the world, but we've been very fortunate at 18a that we've kept busy. As it's been such a busy time, we're all looking forward to a well earned rest over Christmas! We'll be closing at 5:30pm on Wednesday 23rd December, and re-opening at 9am on…
New brand and new website for Beyond The Bean
By lisa, 5.12.20
We were flattered to be amongst the very few who got a sneaky peak at Beyond The Bean's exciting new branding earlier this year so that we could design and build their new website around it. Our friends at Carruthers Tanner transformed their brand, which as well as featuring a very clever…
How a Bake Off led to .HEIC and .WEBP support
By lisa, 4.12.20
This week we had an 18a Bake Off! We can't have our usual Christmas Party so we're going to try to do a few Christmassy things via Zoom - and we started with everyone needing to bake something on the theme of a "Snowman". My son was our judge -…