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UKCourseBookers.com goes live – 2 week turn around

UK Course Bookers Ltd. needed an identity and a slick website - and they needed it quickly. So they came to us! In just 2 weeks we designed and built ukcoursebookers.com which features admin bookings management tools and user accounts so customers can view their past orders, update their details…

18a and the top creative companies in the South West

I've just been checking out the results for the South West Top 100 Creative Companies, which is ranked according to fees earned/turnover. Which means that we're not on it, because we're not big enough (or don't charge enough ;) to beat the big boys. But still, it was great to…

What To Do When You Launch: Before, During, and After

When setting up a new web venue for the first time you could be easily forgiven for thinking that building your website would be your biggest hurdle, but it's really not. I was just browsing our industry news when a post on ReadWriteWeb popped up and really rang true for…

Trailer for The Social Network Movie

They're right - you don't make 500 million friends without making a few enemies along the way too. If you haven't seen the trailer for the new film about the creation of Facebook, check it out below. It looks better than I thought it would, but I find some of…

Code for America… Why not Code for Britain?

I just stumbled upon this interesting project currently going on in the US. Code for America is a project aimed at bringing some of the skills and experience from the private tech sector into government to help councils in cities around the US become more efficient. I particularly like the…

18a meet Facebook Developer Matt Kelly

We admit it. We're geeks. Which meant it was very exciting to meet Facebook Developer Matt Kelly (left in the pic, with our Technical Director Tom Freeman on the right) in San Francisco as part of our 18a Road Trip the other day. He was a lovely guy and it…

Embargo a post or page in WordPress

When you add a post or a page to Wordpress, you have the option of embargoing it so it doesn't display on your site until a set date. Really useful if you want to write a whole load of content once a month and have it drip feed through during…

Using the WordPress more tag

Sometimes you see blogs and just from looking at the first page you can read the whole body of 10 articles. Other times you see blogs and you can only read the first paragraph or so before you have to click on a title or read more link to see…

Select All in Image Ready

Quick little Image Ready tip - if you're trying to select the whole of a frame using Ctrl+A on your keyboard, you need to have the "hand" tool on from the options palette. This is different to Photoshop, where you can pretty much use Ctrl+A anytime.  So just incase you're…

San Fransisco Facebook Developer Meetup

As part of our epic US social media tour we're really excited to be meeting up with some Facebook developers and engineers from the other side of the pond at the San Fransisco Facebook Developer Meetup on June 28. It should be a great opportunity to discuss the new platform…

How to change the border on image thumbnails in a WordPress gallery

Just a quick little "tutorial"/pointer for anyone looking to change the thickness, style or colour of the border of a thumbnail in a Wordpress gallery.... The details of the thumbnails can be found in wp-includes/media.php. Here you'll find: #{$selector} { margin: auto; } #{$selector} .gallery-item { float: {$float}; margin-top: 10px;…

Second Sainsbury’s website goes live.

Back in January we launched a website for Sainsbury's new store in Ashton Gate, and so we were delighted to be asked us to build another for the potential store in Wadebridge. It's always nice to get repeat business :) Sainsburys-Wadebridge.co.uk went live today and features a custom built CMS and…