The importance of not making assumptions in your UX

Assume makes an ass of you and me. Don't expect your audience to know how you work until you tell them.

3 things the .Gov website could do to improve the COVID-19 test booking procedure

If you're booking a COVID-19 test, you might spot a few things that leave you wondering what to do...

Choosing file names for your website docs and images

How not to choose inappropriate or embarrassing file names for images and documents.

Review your User Experience – online and off

When you build a website, you might plan and test your user's experience (UX) to make sure it's smooth - but how often do you go back and re-check it?

The 18a orchard in full bloom

Over a decade ago we planted a small fruit orchard at Tom's parents house, planting a tree for every website we built in our first year. Now, the trees are grown and bearing fruit every year - albeit they look a little dry this year. It certainly seems a lifetime ago that we…

The beginner’s guide to Google Authenticator

Google Authenticator helps you add 2FA to your website, without the ongoing cost of text messages

Tom shortlisted for Agri-tech Innovator of the Year 2020

We are very excited to be able to announce that 18a's CTO Tom Freeman has been shortlisted for the British Farming Awards' Agri-tech Innovator of the Year, 2020! As always with these things, there was a couple of weeks between us being told and it hitting the press so we've…

WordPress and AWS Elastic Beanstalk – getting set up – Part 2

Elastic Beanstalk has some great features but upgrading a WordPress is a little more involved than normal.

The new normal. 5 ideas for improved user security

With increasing security governance and the bad guys not giving up any time soon, do we need to take basic user security to a new level?

A creative example of taking a break from Instagram

Taking a break from Instagram over the summer holidays? Need a bit of a digital detox?

SSL certificates can only be 1 year long from September 2020

Your website will be marked as insecure or untrusted if you don't have the right dates on your certificate.

Do you really need a new website?

There are so many reasons to get a new website - but do you need one?