Stressed Eric build for Aardman
By lisa, 30.07.09
It's not every day you step into work and are greeted by an Oscar! But I was this morning when I arrived at the Gas Ferry Road Aardman studios. I was there to build their design for the new Stressed Eric website, and after all Tom had said about the…
New blueCRM site goes live
By lisa, 22.07.09
The new blue CRM site has gone live, for which we designed and built the front end, and planned and wireframed the back end/member area for their in-house team to build in .net. They produced the video on the home page in-house, and we included checking scripts so that if…
HTML Aardman email
By lisa, 11.07.09
Tom got called into Aardman's HQ this week to build an HTML email for the Oscar Winning animation and digital company. The newsletter was designed inhouse, but needed to be coded into suitable HTML to be mailed out using an HTML email service to their thousands of newsletter subscribers. This…
We've moved! New premises for 18a Productions
By lisa, 1.07.09
Exciting times for 18a Productions, as we've just moved from 18a Gloucester Road (sob! a special place in our hearts!) to our new offices near the top of White Ladies Road, Bristol. Our new phone number is: 01179 680989. Email addresses and our web address stay the same. Below is…
UK Property Club site launches
By lisa, 25.06.09
We were very excited to set ukpropertyclub.co.uk live - we built the site a while ago, but the company decided to pause the launch until a more suitable time in the economic climate. So now it's live - and if you're looking to co-invest, co-buy, or co-let a property, hop over…
HTML email builds for Matrix Group
By lisa, 1.06.09
I've been busy this month building a variety of email templates for the Matrix Group and all their divisions from the designs they've had done. The templates have to suit their HTML email newsletter system and be easy for their team to update quickly - in some cases everyday. I…
Pet shopping section for mypettrade.co.uk
By lisa, 21.05.09
Tom's just finished adding the great new features to the mypettrade.co.uk shopping section, so you can now choose from over 22,000 products for your pet shopping. Cron Jobs mean the feeds are updated from top pet retailers every night, and mypettrade can choose "featured products" for the scroller on the…
SecondLook photo marathon exhibition on Friday night.
By lisa, 20.05.09
At the weekend 18a Productions took part in the SecondLook Bristol Photo Marathon. At precisely 10.30am all 120 participants were allowed to open an envelope containing a list of photo subjects. We then had to run away and take the listed photos on a disposable camera - just 1 pic…
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…