18a win Netty 2024 award for Activibees.com
By lisa, 29.02.24
We are delighted to announce that 18a has been recognised for its outstanding work in the "Web Design Agency of the Year - UK" category at the 2024 Netty Awards. It was our work on Activibees.com, our inhouse "things to do" platform, that earned us this prestigious award. The Netty Awards celebrate…
Generating an Effective Content Security Policy with your Laravel React App
By tom, 27.02.24
I recently had an interesting problem to solve. I'd built a brand new author website on a shiny installation of Laravel 10, utilising its out-of-the-box frontend start kit for React. Laravel Breeze offers React scaffolding via an Inertia frontend implementation. As the website explains "Inertia allows you to build modern,…
If your WordPress website looks broken, it could be because of this.
By lisa, 15.02.24
WordPress is the incredibly popular blogging-come-full-website platform that powers over 835 million websites* in 2024. It's functionality is extended by plugins, and one such very popular plugin is Advanced Custom Fields, which is used on over 2,000,000 sites across the world. ACF announced a while ago that they were making…
WordPress Popup Builder plugin causing sites to get hacked
By lisa, 31.01.24
A marketing agency recently asked us to help with a site they look after for a client because it was displaying odd behaviour - when they visited admin, the page was blank when they should have seen a login screen. We quickly deduced the site had been hacked, and traced…
Google makes big changes to email security
By lisa, 23.01.24
If you've seen scary messages about your email sending lately, it's because Gmail and Yahoo! are about to tighten up the rules on what it will deliver to their users from the 1st February 2024. Whilst SPF, DKIM and DMARC records are nothing new, it's about to be more important than…
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…
All there in black and white - or full colour: a new home page for Jericho Writers
By lisa, 28.09.23
We've been working with Jericho Writers for a few months now, getting to know their very complicated WordPress membership site. If you're not familiar with Jericho Writers, they're a passionate team offering a host of services to help budding authors get published. The team consists of a lot of successful…
University of Leeds and Iszy: Dialect and Heritage Project featured on The One Show
By lisa, 31.07.23
We've been helping the University of Leeds with their Dialect and Heritage Project, which was recently featured on The One Show. The National Lottery Heritage-funded initiative aims to present a snapshot of the language used in England today, by understanding which words and phrases are still in use, and how…
Google Analytics 4 set up for lite users: it's not as complicated as you expect
By lisa, 29.06.23
People all over the world are logging in to Google Analytics this week and seeing an enormous count down clock, telling them to get shifted over to GA4 asap. Universal Analytics is stopping working from 1st July 2023. For many, many users, switching to GA4 is a case of pressing…