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Post by Victor Meldrew » Mon Jul 09, 2007 10:28 am

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Post by ironside » Mon Jul 09, 2007 10:32 am

Have they lost your old site files? Or do you still have a copy?

There is an archive copy here from February 2006.

It would be pretty straightforward to recreate that.

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Post by Alan » Mon Jul 09, 2007 1:34 pm

Check out http://www.webmanwalking.com you get what you pay for!
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Post by campbell » Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:23 pm

NOOPS 160 wrote:Sorry in advance for this one. Like any other business I have or more to the point used to have a web site for Pencaitland Pest Services (PPS) . Having been informed by my web site supply chappy that it was going down for a couple of days for maintenance , end result website gone for over a fortnight now no communication nothing in this age of instant communication............. There have been issues in the past with this company and I have finally lost my patience with this nonsense......

Having been arsed around before by web designers , their web-chat/waffle( usually goes over my head) I personally find it all very boring the technical bit is unfortunately of little interest to me. All I want is a working web site with no frills attached .......... my interest is in the content and price????

So if anyone out there knows where I could find a genius in simple web design with minimal fuss and cost I would be gratefull .

Ps Sorry for the lack of Lotus content normal service will resumed shortly.
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Post by Victor Meldrew » Mon Jul 09, 2007 11:50 pm

looks like the realisation that NOOPS has several large guns has sunk in with the web hosting firm...... :lol:

Site back up and running again.

http://www.pencaitlandpestservices.co.uk/
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Post by steve_weegie » Fri Mar 07, 2008 3:29 pm

Noops, What are you looking for from your website? Do you want to add new content to the existing side, or redesign it completely?

I'll pretty good with the web stuff and dont mind lending a hand, but im not a graphic designer, if you know what i mean :lol:
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Post by ryallm » Fri Mar 07, 2008 4:59 pm

I am in the middle of doing a website for my other half's new personal fitness training business. I am a software engineer/consultant but really anyone who is moderately computer literate can design a decent looking website for a small business using MS Publisher or Adobe Dreamweaver - there are wizards to step you through it and no coding is required. Web design - easy money if you ask me :D

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Post by Corranga » Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:07 pm

Girlfriend is a web developer for these guys. Their artist does some pretty cool stuff:
http://www.raspberrydesign.co.uk/
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Post by mac » Sat Mar 08, 2008 9:03 am

I've nothing to add to the web side of the discussion but I think I've got a flair for design/theme.

So (in rendered 3d)

The sun sets across the rolling hill, in the field in the foreground, three cute bunny rabbits are frolicking their way back to their warren.

There is one, two, three cracks of some and one by one the bunny rabbits topple to the ground, as the fall they land on their backs.

The camera starts to move as it bounds towards where the bunnies are lying (as if the camera is now the eyes of a gun dogs)

It reaches the bunnies and written on their soft underbellies is

"pentland" "pest" "services"


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Post by Sanjøy » Sat Mar 08, 2008 12:13 pm

You simply looking for web presence or something special ?

Chucking together a site for Sarah's HR Consultancy biz and was going down the "Mambo" / "Joomla" route then realised after much debate a simple presence was all that is currently required.
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Post by campbell » Sat Mar 08, 2008 12:36 pm

Designer / Hoster / maintainer of Team SE site in its heyday, Cameron, may be able to assist - http://www.escrivo.com. Might have mentioned this already, sorry ;-)
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Post by EliseR » Sat Mar 08, 2008 11:55 pm

Noops your site appears to be offline again. You have a load of suggestions and advise.

If your after some free help, I can do neat graphics & logos, build standards compliant, fast loading and well programmed sites, in a matter of hours. I can also sort you out with free hosting on a Windows Web Server which will allow you a site which uses ASP.net 3.5 and other cutting edge crap.

Let me know if your interested and if so, you can come to mines for some tea and we can get cracking :thumbsup
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Post by Sanjøy » Sun Mar 09, 2008 12:35 pm

As a man of action I grabbed your (old) copy of your site and punted it on my webspace @ http://www.lumison.co.uk/~sanjoyprasad/Noops/ feel free to point the domain at it.

If you pass me links to the pictures you want that are missing I will happily update them.

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Post by k12chu » Sun Mar 09, 2008 7:44 pm

EliseR wrote:Noops your site appears to be offline again. You have a load of suggestions and advise.

If your after some free help, I can do neat graphics & logos, build standards compliant, fast loading and well programmed sites, in a matter of hours. I can also sort you out with free hosting on a Windows Web Server which will allow you a site which uses ASP.net 3.5 and other cutting edge crap.

Let me know if your interested and if so, you can come to mines for some tea and we can get cracking :thumbsup
u r yet to give me assistance for my website (hmmm... aug'07), regarding the postcode and add basket thingy :wink:
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Post by k12chu » Sun Mar 09, 2008 7:49 pm

noops, OUTSOURCE is the answer for saving money. it is about half the cost (may be even lower). i just got my website done from a friend in india and his team has done a fantastic job. we r still doing the final bits and it should be hosted very soon. shall keep u posted and see what u think about it.

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