Keeping motivated when the schools close: class room stand ups

Have a daily video call with your child's class mates so they can stay connected to school.

Notifications failing for some users on Invision Community forums

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…

Is your website displaying an insecure message TODAY?

It is estimated around 3,000,000 websites will be effected today by a bug in Let's Encrypt meaning that SSL certificates need to be cancelled and new ones installed.

Am I the last person to know why Google Images was invented?

It's been 20 years (somehow) since Jennifer Lopez inspired Google Image search.

Press Release: CropFarmer.app becomes FarmBudgets.com

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

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…

Stripe roll out changes to refund fees for old customers

Stripe are needing to make changes to how you're charged when you issue a refund to your customers.

Large site migrations for Cosy Club and The Lounges

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

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…

Internet Safety Day 2020: Our top tips for staying safe online

February 11th is Safer Internet Day 2020, with the UK Safer Internet Centre celebrating the role the Internet plays in our daily lives whilst reminding us all to be careful how we use it. So here at 18a we thought we’d bestow some of our own personal top tips for staying…

Introducing the CropFarmer Partner Program

CropFarmer is the award winning budgetting tool that we've made to help farmers keep an eye on their bottom line.   The judges of the 2019 AgriDen Innovation competition loved CropFarmer.app and were very excited about what it can do to help small farmers all over the world. We recently…

Minimal Viable Product: How low can you go?

If you're a start up looking to test the waters in your market, then you need to think hard about your Minimal Viable Product. A Minimal Viable Product - or MVP - is a term to describe how you can get an idea to market with as little work, and…