How to test your text contrast in Chrome

Make sure your text is legible for as many users as possible.

Perfectionist or procrastinator? And the value of Coming Soon pages

Fail fast and don't procrastinate. How to launch a start up without spending your life savings.

5 ways we’ve used the web to combat the challenges of 2020

2020 has certainly been a very different sort of year. We've been thankful that for us - despite the team all working from home - it's been business as usual. But it hasn't been for our clients - so we've been helping them in various ways to navigate through the…

The best tools for collaborative remote working

With so many tools available for remote working right now, it's hard to know which will suit your organisation.

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.