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We’ve moved! New premises for 18a Productions

Exciting times for 18a Productions, as we've just moved from 18a Gloucester Road (sob! a special place in our hearts!) to our new offices near the top of White Ladies Road, Bristol. Our new phone number is: 01179 680989. Email addresses and our web address stay the same. Below is…

UK Property Club site launches

We were very excited to set ukpropertyclub.co.uk live - we built the site a while ago, but the company decided to pause the launch until a more suitable time in the economic climate. So now it's live - and if you're looking to co-invest, co-buy, or co-let a property, hop over…

HTML email builds for Matrix Group

I've been busy this month building a variety of email templates for the Matrix Group and all their divisions from the designs they've had done. The templates have to suit their HTML email newsletter system and be easy for their team to update quickly - in some cases everyday. I…

Pet shopping section for mypettrade.co.uk

Tom's just finished adding the great new features to the mypettrade.co.uk shopping section, so you can now choose from over 22,000 products for your pet shopping. Cron Jobs mean the feeds are updated from top pet retailers every night, and mypettrade can choose "featured products" for the scroller on the…

SecondLook photo marathon exhibition on Friday night.

At the weekend 18a Productions took part in the SecondLook Bristol Photo Marathon. At precisely 10.30am all 120 participants were allowed to open an envelope containing a list of photo subjects. We then had to run away and take the listed photos on a disposable camera - just 1 pic…

Working remotely – from Italian mountains!

Everyone's always telling us "the great thing about your job is that you can do it from anywhere". So we thought we'd test it. And went on our first holiday for 18 months (since the birth of 18a) to a teleworking village in the mountains in Italy. As you can…

Have a Digital Spring Clean and Clear out your Old Websites

If you're anything like me, you'll probably have dozens or even hundreds of old websites hanging around your hard drive, gathering virtual dust, that never quite developed into the world dominating websites you first intended them to be. Maybe they bring in a few quid now and then, but lets…

Finishing touches to GetStuckIn.org

Today I've been doing the finishing touches to GetStuckIn.org - a website portal for vinvolved North Somerset, helping young people find volunteereing opportunities in the South West. The initiative is a national programme run by vinvolved, with regional organisers - in this case, Changemakers and 2qab Community Interest Company. The…

A Beginner Merchant’s Guide to Affiliate Marketing

Yesterday I wrote an Affiliate's Guide to Affiliate Marketing - so today I'm doing the same but from the point of view of a Merchant - a retailer or shop owner. As yesterday, there's far too much to it for one blog post, but I'll give an overview here. If…

A Beginner Affiliate’s Guide to Affiliate Marketing

We often get asked to explain what Affiliate Marketing is - and whilst there's far too much too it for one blog post, I can at least give an over view here. If you're considering entering into the Affiliate Marketing world though, give us a shout as we provide consultancy…

On a screen near you…

We were very excited today to see one of our latest designs on BBC 2's Working Lunch. The great new website Stuff2Send.com which we've been working on since it's launch, adding new features and giving it a fresh look, was featured as part of Money Saving Monday. The feature clearly…

Designing Cross Browser.

Neat, well put together code can often avoid major browser compatibility issues. But can still be the odd few problems - especially when a design calls for a certain amount of words on one line etc etc. There are some web services out there they check compatibility for you by…