18a Productions 2010 Christmas opening hours
By lisa, 15.12.10
It's been a busy year here at 18a HQ so we're taking a break over the festive period! Our offices will be closed from 24th December 2010 - 4th January 2011 inclusive. Hosting: We might be on a break, but we don't get off that lightly! All hosting will continue…
VAT rise in January 2011
By lisa, 13.12.10
Yep, it's happening again - the VAT rate is changing. So let us know if you need a hand updating your site for it. Whether you have an online shop, a subscription based service, an online booking system or just the odd "buy now" Paypal button, get in touch if…
Facebook tries to copyright the words face and book!
By lisa, 26.11.10
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has this week granted the social media giant Facebook a "notice of allowance" to trade mark the word "face". Apparently Facebook have a history of going after anyone who use "face" or "book" in their name - UTalkMarketing cites examples such as Teachbook…
Bristol restaurants coming up trumps!
By lisa, 25.11.10
We're always mentioning the latest places we've eaten in Bristol to friends and family outside the city - and increasingly these little gems are getting the recognition they deserve! After achieving Bristol's first Michelin Star, Casamia in Westbury-on-Trym have just been crowned Britain's best restaurant by Gordon Ramsey! Brothers Jonray…
Day and Night design feature on LoveGloucesterRoad.org.uk
By lisa, 10.11.10
This is really quite simple compared to the rest of the coding we do here at 18a Towers, but it's still fun! If you visit LoveGloucesterRoad.org.uk - a website we've made for free to help promote our local area - then, depending on whether you visit it in the day…
Nasty spam email offering tax rebate
By lisa, 5.10.10
Just a quick note to watch out for emails like this one I received supposedly from HMRC this morning. Hovering over the links in the email shows me it's actually trying to send me to recivetaxrefund .xf .cz - quite different to hmrc.gov.uk! It also doesn't have a "to" address -…
18a.co The quicker way to visit us
By tom, 31.08.10
When we heard that you could now buy .co domains we were quick to snap up 18a.co as we thought it sounded pretty cool and we loved the idea of even shorter email addresses. Ok we're not Columbian, but .com domains aren't just used by American companies either, and the…
Twitter customer service from 123-reg
By lisa, 10.08.10
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…
18a and the top creative companies in the South West
By lisa, 30.07.10
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…