Clarke Willmott internal HTML email newsletter templates

Clarke Willmott's PR company, JBP, asked us to build their HTML email newsletter templates from designs done by Stuff. We really like the designs and they suit emails really well, as there are several things to be wary of when designing good HTML emails. The main thing is that they…

New Hop Pocket Wine Co site goes live

Yey! We're all very excited about the launch of the new Hop Pocket Wine Co website. The site is built around oscommerce, as the specialist wine shop already had an online shop using the software, and so wanted to quickly and easily be able to refill their database of hundreds…

3 new instructions for 18a

We are delighted to be working on new projects for 3 new clients over the next couple of months. Orchard Osteopaths unfortunately had a rough ride with their last web development team and the site never launched, so we're picking up the baton and have the designs under the way…

Website planning – muchbetteradventures.com

We're always telling our clients that planning a website before the build begins is vital. And never has this been more true than with the planning of muchbetteradventures.com. The guys behind the site, Alex and Ed, have loads of great ideas and so it's been a detailed process to wire…

Stressed Eric build for Aardman

It's not every day you step into work and are greeted by an Oscar! But I was this morning when I arrived at the Gas Ferry Road Aardman studios. I was there to build their design for the new Stressed Eric website, and after all Tom had said about the…

New blueCRM site goes live

The new blue CRM site has gone live, for which we designed and built the front end, and planned and wireframed the back end/member area for their in-house team to build in .net. They produced the video on the home page in-house, and we included checking scripts so that if…

HTML Aardman email

Tom got called into Aardman's HQ this week to build an HTML email for the Oscar Winning animation and digital company. The newsletter was designed inhouse, but needed to be coded into suitable HTML to be mailed out using an HTML email service to their thousands of newsletter subscribers.  This…

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…