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Happy 2015 from 18a

We hope you had a wonderful break and are looking forward to 2015!We've got some very exciting projects in the pipeline which we hope to be able to tell you about soon. Meanwhile we're planning some building work in our offices, hoping to expand our team and if we find…

2014 Christmas opening hours

It's that time of year again!And we're getting ready to hang our stockings and pop the turkey in the oven.Our offices will close at 1pm on the 24th December, and re-open again at 9am on the 5th January 2015. Website up time monitoring of sites we host will continue as always,…

Changing the zoom level on an embedded Google Map

I love Google products, but they change more often than I change my socks!Which means you constantly need to learn how to use their products to get the best out of them.The latest example of this was updating a Google Map embedded on a client's site. I made the map…

New City Insights marketing site goes live

The new City Insights marketing site is now live!After the new system went live earlier this year, City Insights needed an exciting new marketing site to tell all their potential clients about what their fantastic platform can offer.The new site features a CMS to allow City Insights to add news…

Farewell Chloe

It's a sad week as we wave goodbye to Chloe!Chloe's been with us covering Lisa's maternity leave since February but next week she's off to pastures new in London. As Chloe had never been to Weston-super-Mare or ever been on a pier, we decided it was time she sampled both…

Closing an OpenCart store

A built in maintenance mode in OpenCart means you can effectively close your store completely at the click of a button should you need to.I've been asked a couple of times as to how a client can stop customers using their store, whilst they can still access it and manage…

Corrupt looking fonts in PDF’s when viewing in Mozilla Firefox

After Firefox version 19 was released Mozilla decided to implement a somewhat experimental PDF viewer in the browser which means users don't have to install a plugin in order to view or download PDFs. Unfortunately experimental seems to be the key word because we have come across issues with fonts…

Microsoft drops support for all but the latest version of Internet Explorer for your Operating System

For many years, Microsoft has offered technical support and security updates for multiple versions of Internet Explorer. This was largely down to enterprise users where companies had difficulty in upgrading large numbers of computers to the latest version of Internet Explorer either because of the shear amount of work involved…

Updated branding on Lords Tavener’s website

We have recently gone live with some changes to the Lords Taveners website. We first designed their website back in 2012, and we officially launched it in 2013. Lords Tavener’s have recently updated their brand guidelines. This meant it was time for their website to have a bit of a…

The Facebook Experiment

As the Facebook empire grows and grows, the way in which the social network handles user data has become an important debate. This week it was revealed that Facebook changed the content of users Facebook feed to collect data on how they responded. By manipulating users feeds to monitor their…

A new way to read news at OilPrice.com

OilPrice.com is one of the most popular energy news sites in the world, providing visitors with analysis and news from the global energy sector. We have worked with OilPrice for many years and have just gone live with a brand new news feed system and an updated homepage.  The news feed…

Junior web developer role, based just outside Bristol

For those of you who don't stay glued to our jobs page(!), just a note that we're hiring.We're currently looking for a bright spark to join our team in a junior developer role, happy to dabble with all things front end and back. You can read all about it on our…