Load testing – our new favourite thing

Last year a client needed some load testing done on their site before a big server migration. This means testing if the new server is up to the job of receiving the expected traffic levels - and adjusting it before you go live if it isn't, so it doesn't fall over and…

Video ad platform goes live for OilPrice.com

Our client OilPrice.com have been looking for a while for a video ad platform. They've spoken to a few companies and had trials - but the costs are often pretty huge. So we stepped in and made them their own - in just a few hours. The videos themselves are called from Vimeo.com…

Is WordPress editor jumping down slightly when you click?

Recently we've encountered a small but very irritating glitch in the WordPress editor whereby the content editor will jump down by a line when clicking in the text area. After a bit of investigation we discovered this can be solved by disabling the "Enable full-height editor and distraction-free functionality" checkbox…

An AWSome day of learning

Our developer Craig recently took part in the AWSome Day where AWS tell you all about their cloud hosting offerings. (AWSome... do you see what they did there?!) We've got a few clients on AWS as we've been working with Amazon's hosting for a few years now, so this webinar…

Cleaning a mailing list for GDPR

We’re helping a couple of clients at the moment clean their mailing lists ahead of GDPR. By this I mean if any of their subscribers didn’t double opt-in, or didn’t sign up inline with the consent rules of GDPR, then they need to be asked to rejoin. For one client,…

18a welcome Harriet to the team

Hello all! My name is Harriet and I’m the newbie here at 18a working as a marketing and communications apprentice. I’ve just entered my 5th working week now and what a whirlwind it’s been! Lots to be learned. Having already done A-levels, a foundation degree and a university degree in Photography, I…

Senior full-stack developer role, near Weston-Super-Mare

Are you an experienced PHP/full-stack developer looking for a change in 2018? We're looking for someone, full or part time, with experience in the following areas - to take a key role with our busy client list of International brands and digital starts ups. - PHP- SQL- HTML5- CSS3- JavaScript /…

Introducing ModQ – the team generated content tool

We are super excited to announce the re-launch of our digital marketing tool, ModQ.co ModQ helps marketers by collating all their TGC (team generated content) in one place. Too often if content is contributed by other people in a team or company it's scattered across email, What's App, text and…

New year, new rules…

Happy New Year! Welcome to 2018... the year GDPR comes into force. If you haven't heard about GDPR, then I'm afraid you need to get up to speed quickly, because it comes into force in May this year. But have no fear, we can help bring your website inline with…

Happy Birthday to us! 10 this year.

18a is 10 years old this year! 2017 marks 10 years since Tom and I started trading as 18a Productions - 18a because we were working in Tom's flat - 18a Gloucester Road. It was a very small basement flat but we lived and worked there 24/7, building our fledgling…

Full or part time web architect and project manager required

Are you a coder looking for a slightly different challenge? Or are you a project manager who knows your way around PHPMyAdmin and can spot a browser cache from a code glitch at 20 paces? Then you might be who we're looking for!  Due to a constantly expanding client list,…

How to get an A Grade SSL Install with Letsencrypt on EC2

LetsEncrypt is great, but it doesn't always work brilliantly with Amazon EC2 instances.Documented below are the various steps and hurdles I've had to overcome to install LetsEncrypt and configure Apache to run a clients site securely over SSL. I'm writing this as much as anything for my own reference as…