Why are my website changes not showing?

You've had your developer make some changes to the images on your website, or they've changed your logo or some styles - but you can't see them. Why not? The obvious fear is that your developer hasn't actually done everything you asked them to, but before you hit an email back…

ChatGPT or Bard: Which is the better coding assistant?

How developers code, is changing. We now have amazing 'assistants' in the form of AI models, able to generate code quickly and easily. But how good are they really? I've been playing around with OpenAI's ChatGPT 4 quite a bit lately. But on receiving an invitation, I've now given Google's Bard a…

Enhancing User Experience with Performance Metrics

If you've noticed a drop in traffic lately and you rely on Google for much of that traffic, it could very well be related to your Web Core Vitals scores. These all-important metrics have a big impact on how many clicks Google sends your way.  Web Core Vitals are a set…

Why isn’t my article thumbnail showing on my Twitter share?

We had a client recently wonder why, when they shared articles to Twitter, the article thumbnail didn't always show up with the tweet, even though it was set to. Intermittent problems are always the most fun, aren't they?! So we studied their Twitter feed to look for any patterns in…

How you need to be using AI – or a virtual assistant – for your business right now

It feels - to me - like everywhere I turn and every work conversation I have mentions AI. But then I go and stand on the side of an U9's football game and I bring it up in conversation, and no one's heard of ChatGPT or OpenAI. And to be honest…

Revolutionising Code Refactoring with ChatGPT: A Developer’s Dream Come True

In the ever-evolving world of software development, writing efficient and maintainable code has always been a top priority. As codebases grow in size and complexity, developers often find themselves spending a significant amount of time refactoring code to optimize performance and maintainability. Technologies move on and code that was considered…

Why you should be using WebP Images on your website

Things don't stand still for very long (infact they basically never do) in the world of web development. Something that seemed so ingrained it would never be replaced, is the ubiquitous jpg image format. This might not be a terribly exciting subject for many people, but if you're trying to optimise…

5 UX lessons to learn from 5 UK banks

We've recently launched a separate company for our own start up HallsHire Limited - it's been going 20 years now and has grown to a size that it's best being it's own beast that a subdivision of 18a. So that's exciting times! But as a result, we needed to open…

Why your traffic stats are changing: GA4 vs GA Universal Analytics

Google Universal Analytics is being turned off in July 2023, as they move everyone to their new beast - GA4. Google have also been sending people emails lately to say they're automatically moving you over to GA4 this month (March) if you haven't moved yourself already. The change over -…

Speeding up arranging meetings with AvailabilityCal

We've recently launched AvailabilityCal.com - a neat little tool to help ease that back and forth over email when you're trying to arrange a mutually convenient time for a meeting. Apparently the average meeting takes 7 emails to arrange - eugh! Now, as long as my Google Calendar is up…