helpfulwebhosting http://www.helpfulwebhosting.com hassle-free WordPress hosting Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:52:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Michael MacMahon http://www.helpfulwebhosting.com/2012/01/michael-macmahon/ http://www.helpfulwebhosting.com/2012/01/michael-macmahon/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:44:06 +0000 Ian Kirk http://www.helpfulwebhosting.com/?p=472

To say that helpfulwebhosting is a business that "does what it says on the tin" is a massive understatement. They are more helpful than you could imagine.

Ian Kirk has provided sound advice, great expertise, been available at all hours and replied within minutes to my dozens of e-mails with patience, with clarity, without jargon. It's a service business par excellence.

The result is a Wordpress site of which I am proud. Ian has also taught me skills that will enable me to update my site myself; thus I won't have to call on his time as regularly as I have these past three weeks. All this at an extremely affordable cost. I would recommend this business without hesitation.

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Today we added PayPal as an alternative payment option for customers that prefer it.

We take our customers’ payment details and security very seriously. Whichever option you choose, the entire transaction is securely encrypted. We ourselves do not ever see or store credit card details, that’s looked after for us by either Royal Bank of Scotland or Paypal.

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Vision Sound Music was built using the excellent (and free) Sight theme from WPShower.

The mobile version of the site is powered by WPtouch Pro by Brave New Code (great company name, by the way).

Other plug-ins that were used to add important features of the site included Contact Form 7, Google Analyticator, Smart Youtube, and Twitter Tools.  All of these plug-ins are part of the standard set that helpfulwebhosting install for each of our customers.

But the most amazing part of Vision Sound Music is an incredible feature that lets people add and share their own sound tracks (via SoundCloud) for some of the world’s most famous adverts. We didn’t do much besides advise on the best way to find a developer, so we’re as impressed as anyone else would be that there’s a totally new web application featured on one of our customer’s sites. Check out Audio Ad Remix here.

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Helpfulwebhosting is a "host" in the proper sense - as in "I'm going to invite you to dinner, make you feel welcome and cook you a really nice meal", as opposed to all other so called "hosts" I have worked with before who think it means "I'm going to sit sullenly, with my fingers in my ears, in a room full of computers, checking they don't crash occasionally and taking your money."

Visionsoundmusic.com was my first Wordpress site. Like the shock of going from sheets and blankets to a duvet, Wordpress is so much more of a comfortable and convenient experience. When you're put up by Helpfulwebhosting (and you're pretty much tucked up at night with a warm cup of cocoa), the comfort and convenience are taken to another level.

If I could, I'd recommend them on Trip Advisor.

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Vision Sound Music is the UKʼs first festival of visual music, happening at the South Bank Centre on September 2nd, 3rd and 4th 2011.

Directed by Andrew Missingham and produced in partnership with the advertising agency Fallon and Sound and Music, the festival celebrates the meeting point between music, games, broadcast and brands.

Video games from Rockstarʼs Grand Theft Auto to Sonyʼs Little Big Planet are taken to the next level by music.

In film and TV soundtracks, from classic scores like Bernard Herrmannʼs Psycho, to the smart sound tracking of Scorsese and Tarantino, music is an essential dramatic component.

Brands and adverts – from Enoʼs Microsoft jingles, to the Cadburyʼs drumming gorilla – are at their best with music in their heart.

In the digital space, from Pogoʼs Disney Mash-Ups, to Kultimanʼs YouTube collages, music makes visuals come alive.

And in the built environment, great music can enhance a brand, an experience and create profound human connection.

Vision Sound & Music is for people who love what music can do.

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Helpfulwebhosting has been like an older brother to us, helping us to create our first web site and always thinking of the best way for us. They prioritized quality and ease of use in recommending themes and e-commerce plug-ins for us.

We found all the help we need! A perfect partnership to improve and expand our business.

Thanks a lot helpfulwebhosting.

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TeT Beauty is an on-line retailer based in Curitiba, Brazil. They sell a huge range of beauty products and accessories from well-known global and Brazilian brands such as Aleli, Avon, BioScience, Contem 1g, and Natura. They also have a great range of costume jewellery.

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Helpfulwebhosting have been more than helpful, they've been wonderful. They've fixed me up with a diy website so simple to use that even I seem to have got the hang of updating it and changing things around all by myself - and I struggle to turn the telly on these days without something going awry.

Their favourite line seems to be 'feel free to ring whenever you need help' and what's more, when I ring, they help! It's like no website company I've ever come across before. I could not be more delighted."

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Taking as her departure point exhibitions and performances staged through Beverley Knowles Fine Art from 2002 to 2009 Beverley is now acting as an independent freelance curator. Her particular art historical interests lie with contemporary multi-disciplinary and performance art and the history of feminist art.

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Besides getting the new design for helpfulwebhosting to settle in (still a little more to do but we hope you like it so far) we had a really enjoyable morning this morning helping Sylvia Libedinksy to add a great archive with galleries of press clippings to her site, www.libedinsky.com. The direct link to the press clippings is here.

]]> http://www.helpfulwebhosting.com/2011/05/a-productive-weekend/feed/ 0 Our new design goes live http://www.helpfulwebhosting.com/2011/05/our-new-design-goes-live/ http://www.helpfulwebhosting.com/2011/05/our-new-design-goes-live/#comments Sat, 07 May 2011 16:02:40 +0000 Ian Kirk http://helpfulwebhosting.com/?p=347 If you’re reading this you probably already know that the new design for helpfulwebhosting has gone live.  There may be a few little kinks and niggles to iron out over the next few days, but we hope you like our new look.

]]> http://www.helpfulwebhosting.com/2011/05/our-new-design-goes-live/feed/ 0 WordPress Basic Settings http://www.helpfulwebhosting.com/2011/05/wordpress-basic-settings/ http://www.helpfulwebhosting.com/2011/05/wordpress-basic-settings/#comments Mon, 02 May 2011 19:59:52 +0000 Ian Kirk http://helpfulwebhosting.com/?p=318 In our first video tutorial, we talk about what some good basic settings are for your WordPress installation.  When we sign up new customers and install WordPress for them, we usually make the settings like the ones that you  see discussed here.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jsKoNlAS48

You can see more of helpfulwebhosting’s videos on our YouTube channel.

]]> http://www.helpfulwebhosting.com/2011/05/wordpress-basic-settings/feed/ 0 Sylvia Libedinsky http://www.helpfulwebhosting.com/2011/03/sylvia-libedinsky/ http://www.helpfulwebhosting.com/2011/03/sylvia-libedinsky/#comments Sun, 13 Mar 2011 19:45:03 +0000 Ian Kirk http://helpfulwebhosting.com/?p=206

Ever since my work was organised by helpfulwebhosting the clarity of the graphics and the ease of navigation is consistent with the ethos my work. I feel confident I can update it in the same manner as it was conceived.

When I have any kind of trouble they are only too willing to help, and all this is done very quickly without any tedious waiting.

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A graduate of the Faculdad de Arquitectura Y Urbanismo at the University of Buenos Aires, Sylvia Libedinsky moved to London 1968.   She has worked as an architect for the Greater London Council’s Schools Division, and was co-founder  (along with Ana M. Urquijo) ofMarshmallow, a design company that created soft toys for advertising and other applications. All her original pieces were selected for the Design Centre, London.

She has designed furniture, three-dimensional work for visual merchandising (commissioned by Fitch and Co), and — since the mid-’90s, in recurring partnership with Nick Wadley – an extensive series of cartoons, book illustrations (for Methuen, Faber, Editorial Biblos and Editorial Teseo) and posters (for the Royal Court Theatre, Centro Borges, and Cinecontact).

Her work has been exhibited in The Chelsea School of Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, Art Directions Gallery, Mario Flecha Gallery,  Bookartbookshop, Stanford Street, British Cartoon Trust, Cinecontact, Victoria & Albert Museum, Jaggedart, European Commission 12 Star Gallery (London),  Chapter Gallery (Wales), Graphics (Mantua), Shed (Milan), British Council (Bologna), Skanno (Helsinki), Galerie de Genieloods (Amsterdam), La Sala Vinçon (Barcelona) Jim Haynes Gallery (Paris), Centro Cultural Borges (Argentina), La Ventana Cemicual (Santiago de Chile), and Artium (Fukuoka, Japan).

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