Before we started Big Lemon, we were friends. We went to school together, got drunk together and grew up together – university, dogs, babies, the whole adulthood thing. After almost three years of running a business together we’ve had our fair share of disagreements, awkward moments and straightforward developer vs designer arguments but we’ve got through them all. To mark Na [Continue reading...]
Creative Juices
Please, have a read through our blog. Put your feet up. Stay a while.
How to start a business with a friend and survive
Friendships can be the basis of great business relationships, but there are a few things you need to remember
Owen Richards
4th August 2017
We're Creative finalists at the Wales Start Up Awards
Also known as, how to go from zero to awards in 500 tweets.
Owen Richards
20th July 2017
We're super excited to have been shortlisted for Creative Start-Up of the Year at the second annual Wales Start Up Awards. Almost as good as being nominated, our tweet to announce that we’d been shortlisted was our 500th! We’re shortlisted alongside Tramshed Tech a co-working and events space in Cardiff, BrandContent, a content marketing agency, and Cowshed, a PR and comms age [Continue reading...]
Introducing the Big Lemon Project Tracker
We’ve built a cool new tool to keep clients in the loop.
Owen Richards
14th July 2017
I have a confession to make; I’m totally addicted to apps (cue Basshunter). Specifically, organizational apps. Trello, Slack, Wunderlist, Asana, I’ve tried them all and there isn’t one I met that I haven’t liked. If I want to check where I’m at with a piece of development I’ll pop to Trello, with its many delightfully colour-coded labels. If I want to nag Kieran about where a p [Continue reading...]
How to build something real in seven hours, and ways to make the most of a hack day
We’re lucky enough to live in a country where the government let you access their data and welcome you into their home for a hack day.
Owen Richards
3rd April 2017
How many governments let you hack their data? Not many, I’d guess. We’re lucky enough to live in a country where not only will the government let you access their data, but they’ll welcome you into their building and turn it into whatever you like. Senedd Lab 2017 is the first time the Welsh Assembly has invited devs, designers and other creative people to play around with thei [Continue reading...]
ACF Page Builder: WordPress Plugin #2
Building pages through WordPress has now never been easier with our handy plugin: ACF Page Builder.
Owen Richards
3rd May 2016
They say the sequel is almost always worse than the original. Not this time. Our second WordPress plugin, the ACF Page Builder, is here to conquer lands and… well, build pages. Alright, what is this ACF Page Builder? Simply put, it lets you easily build web page structures with a handful of useful layout types. This includes things like banner images, buttons, contact forms, a [Continue reading...]