Enhancing User Experience with Performance Metrics
By tom, 27.04.23
If you've noticed a drop in traffic lately and you rely on Google for much of that traffic, it could very well be related to your Web Core Vitals scores. These all-important metrics have a big impact on how many clicks Google sends your way. Web Core Vitals are a set…
Why you should be using WebP Images on your website
By tom, 20.04.23
Things don't stand still for very long (infact they basically never do) in the world of web development. Something that seemed so ingrained it would never be replaced, is the ubiquitous jpg image format. This might not be a terribly exciting subject for many people, but if you're trying to optimise…
5 UX lessons to learn from 5 UK banks
By lisa, 12.04.23
We've recently launched a separate company for our own start up HallsHire Limited - it's been going 20 years now and has grown to a size that it's best being it's own beast that a subdivision of 18a. So that's exciting times! But as a result, we needed to open…
Why your traffic stats are changing: GA4 vs GA Universal Analytics
By lisa, 30.03.23
Google Universal Analytics is being turned off in July 2023, as they move everyone to their new beast - GA4. Google have also been sending people emails lately to say they're automatically moving you over to GA4 this month (March) if you haven't moved yourself already. The change over -…
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…
Gas Stations Near Me feature goes live for OilPrice.com
By lisa, 10.01.20
Today we've rolled out the latest big new feature for OilPrice.com - a Gas Stations Near Me page. Using various aspects of the Google Maps API suite, including Places, Distance Matrixs and Maps, the new page allows their millions of visitors from all over the world to find a petrol…
Is WordPress editor jumping down slightly when you click?
By lisa, 17.04.18
Recently we've encountered a small but very irritating glitch in the WordPress editor whereby the content editor will jump down by a line when clicking in the text area. After a bit of investigation we discovered this can be solved by disabling the "Enable full-height editor and distraction-free functionality" checkbox…
A UX consideration for Nationwide
By lisa, 18.07.16
A few weeks ago I wrote a little UX review of something I found odd with Nationwide's online banking, but I didn't get around to publishing it.1 It went a little something like this..."Now, of course, I don't know the reasons behind what I'm about to describe and so please,…
Why have my Instagram pictures stopped appearing on my website?
By tom, 3.06.16
If you were a user of the Instafeed.js service for Instagram, you may have noticed recently that your pictures have stopped automagically appearing on your website. This is due to some recent legal changes Instagram have made to their API, which has unfortunately stopped the app (for now atleast) from…