How to recruit a younger team of volunteers: volunteering in the new normal
By lisa, 4.06.20
Up there with "unprecedented" my other least favourite term of lock down has to be "the new normal". But unfortunately it's a term that's set to stay as we are likely to see some long lasting effects of COVID-19. One area that may well see a shift in uptake…
Why the Government needs coders: the devil is in the detail
By lisa, 21.05.20
Our household is currently going around in circles as to whether we think the proposed return to school the week after next is a good idea. The dilema for us is that there just isn't very much detail about the whole thing yet - and I do love detail. Today a…
Are NHSX being naive? And when will they delete our data?
By lisa, 3.05.20
Plans are being announced for the UK's contact tracing smarphone app, which will alert people when someone they've been near has started showing symptoms of COVID-19. Apple and Google have both suggested decentralised approaches to this, where you - by updating the app - notify the world that you're showing symptoms and…
Food Home Delivery services now on Hallshire.com
By lisa, 2.04.20
HallsHire.com has been helping the world find event venues for almost 20 years. Initially solely about village halls, it now includes various community centres and conference venues. As the world however, struggles to function with the COVID-19 pandemic turning lives upside down, we've added a new feature to HallsHire.com to help with…
Notifications failing for some users on Invision Community forums
By dean, 5.03.20
Our client OilPrice.com use InvisionCommunity to power their very popular oil and energy discussion forums. However, after a recent upgrade to version 4.4.10, we had reports that some users were clicking the popular bell icon to view notifications and encountering an error. The box that would normally display the notifications was instead…
Press Release: CropFarmer.app becomes FarmBudgets.com
By tom, 1.03.20
Farm budgeting platform cropfarmer.app has undergone a rebrand to become FarmBudgets.com. Tom Freeman, co-founder of Farmbudgets said today: We were delighted to be able to acquire the domain name FarmBudgets.com which makes the perfect home for our farm budgeting tool. Not only does it make it clearer what the primary…
"We need a good search": strategies we've employed to give clients more powerful search tools and granular control
By lisa, 27.02.20
When we're planning a new website for someone, one of the requirements we often hear in the brief is that "it needs to have a good search". When I heard that line from a client last week, it ended up that their current keyword search was linked to a 3rd…
Large site migrations for Cosy Club and The Lounges
By lisa, 21.02.20
We are delighted to welcome Cosy Club and The Lounges to the 18a fold this year as they've asked us to help them with their websites. Last year we designed and built their corporate site - Loungers - with a 2 week turn and so are delighted to be able to work with 2 of…
Safari and Chrome Connection Issues on iPhone with http/2 via AWS Load Balancer
By tom, 13.02.20
If you are having problems getting Safari and Chrome on iOS to connect to your site and you're using an AWS Application Load balancer, you might want to check if you have http/2 enabled on the load balancer. If you do, and you're using Apache, try adding the following line to your…