Working remotely - from Italian mountains!
By lisa, 18.05.09
Everyone's always telling us "the great thing about your job is that you can do it from anywhere". So we thought we'd test it. And went on our first holiday for 18 months (since the birth of 18a) to a teleworking village in the mountains in Italy. As you can…
On a screen near you...
By lisa, 6.04.09
We were very excited today to see one of our latest designs on BBC 2's Working Lunch. The great new website Stuff2Send.com which we've been working on since it's launch, adding new features and giving it a fresh look, was featured as part of Money Saving Monday. The feature clearly…
Designing Cross Browser.
By lisa, 20.03.09
Neat, well put together code can often avoid major browser compatibility issues. But can still be the odd few problems - especially when a design calls for a certain amount of words on one line etc etc. There are some web services out there they check compatibility for you by…
StreetChance supported by Barclays Spaces for Sports new CMS goes live.
By lisa, 17.03.09
We were very pleased last year to be asked to build a microsite for StreetChance, a partnership between the English Cricket Board/Chance to shine, Barclays Spaces for Sports, Cricket for Change, Positive Futures and the Metropolitan Police Service. Now, as the initiative to engage young people across London boroughs with cricket…
Noel Gallagher and Wired Strings news sent from 18amail.co.uk
By lisa, 13.03.09
Buy The Sunday Times this weekend! I've just built and sent an email in 18amail telling Wired Strings fans about a CD that they have worked on with Noel Gallagher in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust, that's free this weekend with The Sunday Times. The Album, entitled ‘The Dreams We Have As Children’,…
BBC World Record dreams dashed!
By lisa, 12.03.09
Tom and I were delighted to be invited by the BBC to witness a World Record Attempt last night in Bristol. Kev F Sutherland entertained us for 1 hour with 470+ jokes, both written by himself and submitted by the public. As pointed out by the Official Guiness World Record Adjudicator, the…
18amail soft launch - send and monitor HTML emails to your mailing list.
By lisa, 11.02.09
We are extremely excited to annouce the soft-launch of 18amail.co.uk. After many clients asked us for an affordable system which would allow them to create and manage mailing lists, as well as send and schedule HTML emails, we created a system to give any one all the functionality they could dream…
A tree for every website.
By lisa, 11.02.09
We promised to plant a tree for every website we make. So at the end of 2008, we got busy planting our own little 18a Orchard in a beautiful part of Worcestershire. We planted a selection of Apple trees (inc. Bramleys and Cox Orange Pippen), some Cherry trees, and -…
18a in the Guardian!
By lisa, 10.10.08
Jemima Kiss, a blogger for The Guardian, interviewed Tom a little while ago (and requested some photos - eek!) about our site PriceCheck.at. Pricecheck.at is a quick and easy to use tool for checking the price of items when you are out and about on your mobile phone. So next…